Totaled or not?

[Ghentani]

Totaled. Sorry.

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[Jkohler]

I think I’d hope it’s totaled myself. You can’t fart on a new vehicle without costing a few grand.

 

[Steve_South]

The insurrance guy's first reaction will be: it'll buff right out.

 

[BlackRook]

I put my guess in for not totaled. A LOT of damage for sure, probably multiple $10k's. But we can't tell about the frame, and if the frame's ok, replacing body parts should be feasible. And probably less than the covered value of the vehicle (especially if you have gap coverage).

If the frame's shot, then yeah, she be totalled.

If they DO try to repair her, make damn sure you get diminished value--gonna be hard to sell a vehicle with this type of damage on the CarFax. Smart buyers will assume you rolled her offloading like a clown, and may not believe you otherwise...

 

[Steamboat]

Well, if this were the 3rd or 4th year of a vehicle and aftermarket parts or replacement parts were readily available, it might be a different story.

However, with the limited supply of parts, the cost of having to go directly to the manufacturer (MOPAR) and the added time that it would take to even be able to get the parts available and shipped where they are needed, I would lean towards totaled.

Your insurance will pay for a rental car in the meantime but with all of the added challenges for replacing a car this new, I would lean towards totaled.

If not, make sure you file the additional value loss form after your claim. This will pay you the difference in your car if your car had never been wrecked.

 

[Steveo]

...not to mention, salvage title

 

[MattP725]

I agree the cost is going to be way over a few thousand but you're talking about a 45-50k truck in its first year. If you said the residual was 40k and gave it 80% for the cutoff, it would have to cost more the 32k to fix. Even if you said 35k residual, 28k? No way its costing THAT much to fix.

 

[hubble]

I'm going with totaled. With all the parts, body damage, paint, not including the parts you can't see, labor.

 

[IndustrialAction]

Oh man, that sucks. I hate seeing the brand new Jeeps getting destroyed. The Mojito! vs a tree and now this? Ugh

 

[Gill]

There is a lot more damage there than most are seeing. A lot of areas have been tweaked and will require lots of labor time to fix this Jeep right. It can be done but by insurance standards it will cost too much. It would be a good car for a body company to rebuild but in Indiana it would end up with a rebuilt title and that would lower the value a bunch.

 

[gofastguy]

Hope the insurance company gets you a new one. but I am not so sure the damage is enough to total it. But waaaay more than a few thousand lol.

 

[Jrbrannan]

I agree the cost is going to be way over a few thousand but you're talking about a 45-50k truck in its first year. If you said the residual was 40k and gave it 80% for the cutoff, it would have to cost more the 32k to fix. Even if you said 35k residual, 28k? No way its costing THAT much to fix.

Respectfully I disagree. There is significant damage to the tub which by the way it looks will need replacing, that and the hood, hardtop, windshield and what looks like a tweaked sports bar is more than enough to total this thing out.

 

[wired]

From personal experience, most insurance companies automatically total the vehicle if it rolls.

 

[jk8290]

Looks like a total. I don’t know if they have this in your state but the insurance company might do a constructive total loss if the repairs alone are not enough to total it.

 

[Ruby Jack]

It's hard to tell from just those pics. If the structural integrity is fine, then it's just a matter of seeing if the parts/labor/rentals will be greater than just getting you a new Jeep.

If there is structural damage then I'd go with total.

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