Maybe you’ve been in a relatively minor accident, but your car insurance company considered your car to be totaled, meaning too expensive to repair. If you really liked that car, this can be very depressing to you. Now you have to go out and purchase another car and get car insurance quotes for it because you need transportation, but this may be not even possible at this point in your life. While the car insurance company will give you a certain dollar amount for your car, it may not be enough to purchase another car or at least not the car that you wish to have. There are things that you can do for yourself when this happens.

Some car insurance companies consider a car totaled if the repair costs is more than 50% of what they consider the value of the car is at the time of the accident. You can choose to repurchase your car from the insurance company. You need to let the car insurance adjuster or claims department know that you want to keep the car. While they still have to pay you for what they consider to be the value of the car at the time of the accident, they of course will subtract any deductible that you would have had to pay should your car have been repaired plus the value they estimate they would have gotten when they sold the car at auction or to a salvage yard. This value is usually determined by the car insurance company obtaining bids on the car as is from salvage yards and utilizing the highest dollar amount.

The car is then yours to keep and you may do what you wish with it. Many people choose to have it repaired on their own or some even do the repairs on their own. With the insurance claim check, they purchase the parts to repair the vehicle on their own or they have the repairs done professionally, depending on the damage that was done as well as their mechanical ability