Airbags, airbags, airbags.
The cost of replacing an airbag can be $1,000 to $1,500. If both driver and passenger bags deployed, that’s $3k right there.
A new door for my older auto cost at $1000+.
I found a used, exact duplicate down to the paint, for $125.
I totaled my old truck hitting a deer. When I realized both bags deployed I was SO mad knowing what it meant. “It was a deer!! We didn’t need the airbags!!!”
If I had been in town (rather than 1,000 miles away) I would have been tempted to have bought it back from the insurance company and fixed it up. I did some research and you can get airbags for fairly cheap and install them yourself. But - I’m not sure if insurance or titles would agree with that.
They total cars for next to nothing now.
Deployment does not have to happen
“The cost of replacing an airbag can be $1,000 to $1,500. If both driver and passenger bags deployed, that’s $3k right there.”
The headlights in our Honda CR-V cost $1,700 each.