My 2012 Fiesta Titanium was at the front of a row of stationary cars waiting to turn right on Friday morning when a Kia Sorrento shunted a stationary Suzuki Jimny into it.

The car was still driveable but has been taken away for insurance assessment.

The apparent damage is:

• Tailgate, rear window and bumper wrecked. 
• Bumper Crash bar deformed.
• Deformation of rear slam panel.
• Rear edge of the floor pan is creased between crash bar and spare wheel well (view from above in second pic).

The tailgate will not open so it is not clear as to the damage to the rear slam panel.

Unfortunately I have no more photos..

We anticipate that the Insurer will judge this as a total loss/write-off however we are thinking that we may make an offer to buy the car back and repair it with salvaged parts.

Has anyone experience of how reparable this would be based on this limited evidence..?

Thanks in advance...

Steve

 

I  would say Insurance right off also repairing a 11 year old car would not be worth it ☹️

Agree, write off. Take the money and buy another car. Not worth the effort to get it sorted. Crumple zones now beyond repair safely. 

I wouldn't bother due to its age.   You would spend more than it's worth.

Thanks to all for the replies. 

Looking at Autotrader, a similar car would be nearly 5 grand to replace..

Second hand car prices are crazy at the moment...

It depends on a few things you haven't told us

1 - is it low mileage and perfect in every other respect - never let you down mechanically, etc etc

2 - are you handy with doing most of the work - taking it apart and putting it back together again?

3 - how much will it be to buy off the ins co. ?  Remember once fixed it will probably cost more to insure next time around than a non write-off.

4 - do you have a local body-shop you can take it to to get an estimate to fix the shell/chassis as I presume you cannot.

5 - do you care what it looks like when you've finished?

The other option, depending on 1 above is to find a good shell with a broken engine - same model obviously to make your life easier.

But then you have to swop everything over and get rid of what's left....

Life's too short?

 

12 hours ago, Steveharvey2001 said:

Thanks to all for the replies. 

Looking at Autotrader, a similar car would be nearly 5 grand to replace..

Second hand car prices are crazy at the moment...

As long as that's what the insurance give you, then just buy a new car.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's only cat N, though it should be cat S with the boot floor deformation imo.

Bumper, crash bar and tailgate are all easy to replace but it's that boot floor/rear slam that would cause the problems.  If it's super low mileage and a rare engine (guessing it must be for a Fiesta Titanium to be worth £5k after 10 years!?) and if you can either do the work yourself or know someone else that can then it might be worth repairing.  Will depend entirely on the buy back price you're offered.  With used car prices remaining high, I suspect the buy back price will also be high...

 

On 3/21/2022 at 10:03 AM, TomsFocus said:

I wouldn't be surprised if that's only cat N, though it should be cat S with the boot floor deformation imo.

Bumper, crash bar and tailgate are all easy to replace but it's that boot floor/rear slam that would cause the problems.  If it's super low mileage and a rare engine (guessing it must be for a Fiesta Titanium to be worth £5k after 10 years!?) and if you can either do the work yourself or know someone else that can then it might be worth repairing.  Will depend entirely on the buy back price you're offered.  With used car prices remaining high, I suspect the buy back price will also be high...

 

We still haven't had the workshop asessment (w/or of repair) from the nominated repair centre because there was a delay in getting the car transferred from the recovery site.

From my understanding, the non-superficial body damage that I observed before the car was recovered may just be to what is available as a bolt-on rear panel as shown in this picture..

I will likely accept that that the car is a "total loss"  however we would consider buying the car back IF it could be fixed with off-the-shelf bodywork parts plus a salvaged tailgate and rear bumper in the same colour, which appear to be readily available from salvage channels.

 

That panel is welded on, not bolted.

1 hour ago, Steveharvey2001 said:

From my understanding, the non-superficial body damage that I observed before the car was recovered may just be to what is available as a bolt-on rear panel as shown in this picture..

As above, that panel is structural & welded in place.  It's not a simple bolt-on part.

Thanks for the info for the rear panel.

It will be interesting see if the impact damage is limited to this panel.