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Summary: When a car is totaled, it gets sent to a scrap yard where it is typically disassembled for parts. Find out how a car is totaled if the damage exceeds the car's value with help from an ASE-certified mechanic in this free video on auto damage.
Thomas Brintzenhofe has been a certified mechanic for more than 14 years and a certified master mechanic for more than eight years. He is a General Motors certified driveability...read more
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"Good afternoon my name is Tom Brintzenhofe, Certified Master Mechanic out of Reading, Pennsylvania and today I am going to talk a little bit about what happens when your car is totaled. Basically when your car is totaled it basically amounts to you get yourself into an accident, the amount of the damage exceeds the value of the car. Let's say you are driving around in an 80's series Ford Escort and you end up smacking yourself into a tree and there is $4,000 worth of body damage on to it and the car is only worth say $1,200. That would be a good indication of when they would total your car. Basically what happens if you have a newer car say 90's and up and you get yourself into an accident. The insurance company will typically send an appraiser out to estimate the damage on the car and if it exceeds the amount that the car is worth then they obviously total it and it gets sent to a scrap yard and it stays there for a while. Most insurance companies have their own yards and after that it gets sent to a salvage yard and basically gets taken apart for parts. That is usually what happens when your car is totaled and basically a simple way to sum up how your car is totaled and how you know if your car is totaled is basically value versus the damage that was done during the accident. But that's basically how you wrap that one up."
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