Is my 2022 Model 3 Performance totaled?

[Maxwell Nelson]

Slipped on water and ran into a guard rail. Does this look totaled?

 

[Maxwell Nelson]

images of wreck

 

[texas_star_TM3]

Slipped on water and ran into a guard rail. Does this look totaled?

how fast were you going and in what condition were the tires?

 

[EVRider-FL]

Why ask us?

 

[vogz]

Looks like most of it will buff out pretty easily...

 

[ColoradoMike]

WOW! Not certain.....it will be expensive either way you look at it.

Depends on your insurance.

If the battery isn't damaged then probably not a total loss but that is a pretty severe accident.

So sorry this happened to you. Not something I would wish on anyone

 

[Gulfcoaster]

Glad you are ok, but its impossible to know what your insurance might do. Either way....I'd dump the car, it will never be the same.

 

[UncertainTimes]

Can we get a subforum for the plethora of insurance adjusters that are apparently on this forum?

 

[nate704]

Bald tires?

 

[SBD47]

Honestly, I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks. Doesn’t look like any structural damage, or airbags blown. As long as the battery wasn’t damaged, I’d say not totaled. It’ll be gone for a little while though. Needs passenger side door skins, passenger side front and rear quarter panels, trunk lid, headlight and tail light, front and rear bumper covers, 1-2 wheels and misc. suspension parts. It takes a good bit to total a $65k car.

For your sake, I hope they total it though. You could probably replace it with a new one, before they would get this one fixed.

 

[mswlogo]

I say totaled.

 

[texas_star_TM3]

Honestly, I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks. Doesn’t look like any structural damage, or airbags blown. As long as the battery wasn’t damaged, I’d say not totaled. It’ll be gone for a little while though. Needs passenger side door skins, passenger side front and rear quarter panels, trunk lid, headlight and tail light, front and rear bumper covers, 1-2 wheels and misc. suspension parts. It takes a good bit to total a $65k car.

and 6+ months for the repairs incl. "waiting on parts". lol

 

[Maxwell Nelson]

Honestly, I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks. Doesn’t look like any structural damage, or airbags blown. As long as the battery wasn’t damaged, I’d say not totaled. It’ll be gone for a little while though. Needs passenger side door skins, passenger side front and rear quarter panels, trunk lid, headlight and tail light, front and rear bumper covers, 1-2 wheels and misc. suspension parts. It takes a good bit to total a $65k car.

For your sake, I hope they total it though. You could probably replace it with a new one, before they would get this one fixed.

exactly. I placed an order the next day. I forgot to mention they have sent it to the total loss yard but now it's up to a third party to evaluate it for progressive to determine if its a true total loss.

 

[Maxwell Nelson]

images of wreck

One thing I forgot to mention is that the front motor was making a hissing sound when I got out of the car before the car battery drained and died within two days from 96%. Not sure if that indicates motor and battery damage.

 

[Maxwell Nelson]

images of wreck

Additional images of the metal around the suspension. Any thoughts? Is that considered frame damage where its bent in there?

 

[Gulfcoaster]

Honestly, I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks. Doesn’t look like any structural damage, or airbags blown. As long as the battery wasn’t damaged, I’d say not totaled. It’ll be gone for a little while though. Needs passenger side door skins, passenger side front and rear quarter panels, trunk lid, headlight and tail light, front and rear bumper covers, 1-2 wheels and misc. suspension parts. It takes a good bit to total a $65k car.

For your sake, I hope they total it though. You could probably replace it with a new one, before they would get this one fixed.

Car is toast. It's repairable but at what point does the insurance company throw the towel in? And I for one would never want to continue on with that car after repairs.

 

[Cho22]

Most likely, and I would assume if not it’ll be slapped with a salvage title

 

[Maxwell Nelson]

Car is toast. It's repairable but at what point does the insurance company throw the towel in? And I for one would never want to continue on with that car after repairs.

Yeah, I am hoping it is totaled for sure because that would be so unfortunate to have to wait so long and then have a rebuilt Tesla...... Worth so much less.

I think there might be some undercarriage damage as well from how I remember the wreck feeling. I think one of the guard rail poles snagged underneath the vehicle.

 

[Gulfcoaster]

Yeah, I am hoping it is totaled for sure because that would be so unfortunate to have to wait so long and then have a rebuilt Tesla...... Worth so much less.

I think there might be some undercarriage damage as well from how I remember the wreck feeling. I think one of the guard rail poles snagged underneath the vehicle.

I'm just happy you are ok, thats all that matters in the end.

 

[DentedOldDog]

Any more details about how the slip occured? There have been a few people that reported losing control on wet roads because of the regenerative braking kicking in when what they wanted to do was coast through it.