Just had an accident. Someone rear end, and he leaned over my body, broke some lights that were brand new ruined my car very well, and folded in my trunk, so now the light is on. And yes, the person who told me to steal my car to hit someone else car and there is also damage to the front bumper.
I wanted to know if I should go and get a body shop to give me an assessment of costs for the work with my car for repair will be carried out.
First, it seems to you that your car was, and the extent of the damage and the year of the car probably will be. Although I wonder how you know that your frame is bent, like most of your framework does not require a glance at the car, then you should not be able to visibly see the damage. In general, the only way to determine whether a car has frame damage is really to get up and look under the car, or take anything you can see the strain you see the frame rails and when bent or twisted. Or make an estimate of the difference in gaps in various parts of the car, but in general are areas not affected by the impact. Its trunk can gaps different because of the direct impact it has made.
In any case, an adjustment to go out and look at your car, regardless of writing an auto body shop and no matter how much they inflate the estimates. For most carriers, even if they save a favorite that you need, they are on an expert to continue to send the estimate to write and negotiate with the business, insurance companies very little right to speak a body shop unless maybe you have some fly by night carrier.
With regard to the addition of the appraised value, generally things in the car must either SUPER BAD SUPER AWESOME, or not regarded as quite normal. Make sure your tires are good if they are bare, this is a place where they can take the value of the car. In terms of equipment, the great, if it looks nice, but especially for a vehicle 98 for the most part, everything will be normal. If you really think this is your vehicle status is impressive, you can then negotiate with the insurance. They give you a copy of the report they use to determine the value of your car, and it should tell you what are the typical conditions of the interior and exterior of the vehicle. If you are using the typical values (for example, disagree 98 on a Honda, the typical vehicle could have a dirty headliner, but if you think your headline is really clean, you can chat with the experts in order to set the value to the car should add) to ensure that all the options you put your vehicle in the report.
What the list of things you will do to the car, I do not think it would be so much difference in determining the value of the vehicle. A vehicle must have clean windows, seats should probably be a little damage and sun damage, at least. Mature shone … no one cares, they are looking at the tread. Removing labels is a good idea, but it could effectively remove the value.
In terms of the price that most insurance companies do not use the Kelly Blue Book, to determine the value. You have to decide a provider that determine how a vehicle like yours in the area around the actual value. And this is different in different states.