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unfortunately 1/4 panel / b-pilliar and rocker panel etc will be involving cutting and welding, one has to spend the time to pull it out as close as possible to original then start cutting and welding; if repair is done probably there is not much of a problem afterwards (now it's all depends where the car is going to be repaired)...

i would guess the camry would still worth $5k to $7k at least (by just looking at black book), so which means icbc will have more than enough room to repair the car without writting it off (they dun go for black book value, they go for market value)...

yet recently market value for most car has dropped a lot, now it really depends on how things is going to be settled...

B2L2

Thanks everyone for the kind words and info.

Similar to what I thought la.  $3-4k repair since there isn't any suspension damage.  Just like one of the police said that it was dramatic (3 cars accident with a spin) but it isn't too bad.  Another police just kept saying Camry is a good car.  I am glad that the door had a good design and protected us good.  The impact location was higher because of the bigger truck (remind me how much I hate SUV and pickup truck because of the bigger damage it caused on accident).

All after all, it could be worse.  I am happy that my family is okay still.  I shouldn't worry too much on the car.  Zuesel wasn't in the car which is another thing that I'm glad.  She had experienced too many car accidents below and I hate to see her got scared for a single more time.  

Just feel bad that I crashed my brother's car and he can't go anywhere now.    Need to make good use of the "Loss of use" claim now.  I hope ICBC wouldn't have too much cases after all the snow and holiday, but again I don't think so.

- Brian

spoonek4

好在你同你家人冇事.......個人冇事最緊要。

宜家真係好多人渣車亂咁黎！

notgoddy

Dude, don't feel bad, it's not your fault that someone else crash into you.

B2L2

some update and see what you think.

ICBC called my brother back eventually.  They estimated to be a $6k repair.  My brother asked about up to which point ICBC would consider a write off.  The adjuster said they estimated the car worth $11k at the moment and he said they wouldn't consider a write off unit the repair cost is up to $10.5k.

That seems to be different from what I heard from people.

- Brian

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they probably have no luck with used parts, with the accident rate over the winter period, probably why they took so long too...

just bring it to the body shop, ur old car they first estimated $49xx, joe got it up to $11k and it was an instant write off...

but then that's a front end with a lot of misc parts they probably forgot to include...