Diminshed Value on Wrecked Vehicle

Go to the body shop and get a quote from them. That is the diminished value.

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No. Diminished value is the difference in value of the vehicle when compared to before the accident (i.e. car was worth $30,000 with no accident history, now it's worth $30,000-x. DV is the $x). From research I've done (my car just got hit a couple months ago, working on the DV claim now), $1500 is good number to start with.

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Everything I am reading points to what you stated above. I am going to throw out $2500 but would take $1500 in a heartbeat.

I'm going to guess on a 2011 your DV is going to be much less than $2,500, even much less than $1,500, based on the damage you listed.

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Until you know the exact numbers on the final repair cost I don't think it's possible to calculate DV.

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An accident history is an accident history. Anything more than a fender bender is going to show up as a collision, and will negatively affect the value. No one will care if it was $3k in damage or $15k, once it has a history it's all the same.

That assumes that the repair work was done correctly of course. Shitty work will lead to it being worth even less, but DV wouldn't cover that.

you are wasting far too much time on this.

but here is a great link that will help you LINK

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While I somewhat agree with your point, there is clearly a difference depending on amount of damage, or area of damage. A vehicle that's had frame damage/repair, an engine replaced, axles repaired, etc. will certainly be valued differently by an informed buyer than one that hasn't been extensively repaired. Body work is easy to repair, frame/unibody, mechanical work, not so much.

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This.

I helped a friend of mine deal with a situation like this last year. You can't just throw out a blanket number without going into specifics. As you've correctly pointed out, the extent and type of damage, as well as the age and type of car, also play into it. One of the big things (that I didn realize prior to her situation) is whether or not the airbag deploys. Apparently having that happen really hits the value, as would frame damage. The driver that hit her two year old 3 series BMW had All State. At first, they were resistant, since the car wasn't totaled. But the fact that her airbag deployed added to the diminished value, and once my mechanic pal and an old classmate (an attorney now) got involved, a rather nice check came her way. If she'd been driving a 1998 Nissan Pathfinder, she certainly wouldn't have gotten as much.