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Well, I'm sitting in the family room watching Phantom Menace and checking email. Bummer about the car. My experience was shockingly similar, some guy had just come out of the courthouse from paying a ticket and was driving his SUV while reading the paperwork. Amazing some people have liscenses.
The guy's insurance adjuster came out, looked at the car and pronounced it totaled, it had a slightly bent hood and broken grill. They did price comparisons and determined it's worth to be $1475 they deducted the $60 they would have gotten from the salvage auction and cut me a check. I went to Ecology, picked up semi-matching hood and grill for a total of $60 and put it on the car. Getting prices of cars that sold from craigslist/auto trader may help also.
It looks like your car is fixable, I'd get any paperwork that will help the adjuster determine the value together and see what happens. In my case I got more than I expected. I'd see what your company will do, before taking any parts off of the car, odds are you'll get $1200+ and get to keep the car. It looks like it won't take much to fix it so you may end up with $$ in your pocket and a drivable car. The only down side to getting a salvage car back on the road it having to go to a "Brake and Light Station" this is a California approved place that inspects the car to be sure it was fixed right. If you go this way be sure to get the VIN of the donor car as they want to know where the parts came from.
Good luck, the situation sucks but you may come out of this OK.
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Dave Shannon
Spring Valley, California
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