Posted on 06/02/2024 7:27:35 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
More than one fifth of all crashed cars are now totaled by insurance assessors.
Proportion of new vehicles written off has increased due to high repair costs.
The cost of fixing ADAS systems designed to prevent accidents is often deemed not worth it.
The rocketing cost of repairing crashed cars means 21 percent of wrecks now result in a vehicle being totaled by insurance firms, a five-fold increase versus 1980. And some experts think that number could jump to a staggering 30 percent as cars become even more complex.
Ironically, it’s the same ADAS driver aids designed to save us from having an accident in the first place that are being blamed for the rise in write-offs when we do crash. The tech that goes into those systems is so expensive that insurers are finding that it’s not worth sanctioning a repair.
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The average cost of a new car is $49,000.
I bought my house for $51,000 in 1981. I know about inflation but..just damn.
Better than that, BMW now requires that a windscreen replacement be done when the car is clamped to a frame table (as if they were going to do collision repair)
Of course BMW has proprietary body clamps so not ever every body shop can do that.
What glass shop has a frame table ? (unless it is part of a body shop)
The car is not clamped to a table at the factor when they install the windscreens at the factory, but it is supposedly necessary for a windshield repair.
This is just BS to drive repairs to the dealers and “authorized collision repair”.
Sticker shock.
In Vancouver, the house prices have increased so much that inflation in vehicle prices doesn’t seem that bad. 🙃
So reasonable!! 👍
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