Will someone near Martinez CA look at a S for me please?

[demundus]

This is shady and sorta happened to me, but I've got alot invested in my car and I turned down that "offer"

My brother's in-laws just crashed their Model S a few weeks ago and the rep at the body shop said they will try their best to make it a total loss and it's not even badly damaged.

This is normal

Another thing is the body shop still makes a bunch of money off of storage charges once a car is totaled.

 

[Yaro]

Well... salvage cars damage at auction are typically sold by an insurance company for total loss purposes

It's a nearly base model S, for the company total it, the adjuster for the body shop (assuming it went to one, as we are implying it did) AND the adjuster for the insurance company had to agree the repairs were > 60ish% of the value of the car. That is the common threshold without knowing the exact insurer. That's alot of damage that we dont see if we go with my rough guestimate of 30k for the rear damage shown.

Most of the time it is insurance companies. High end cars? Not so much. Here are a list of Teslas that have been tinkered with already and are being sold by anyone but an insurance company.

https://www.copart.com/lot/28395668

https://www.copart.com/lot/21791048

https://www.copart.com/lot/26206188 (Not 100% sure about this one)

 

[Yaro]

This is shady and sorta happened to me, but I've got alot invested in my car and I turned down that "offer"


This is normal

There's only one body shop in Sacramento so they probably do that because they have too many cars, who knows.