Update on SoCal Prius accident

Well, my insurance company totaled my Prius- 3 weeks old - and will pay full price to me the amount that I paid for it. ( I had a few scary moments before I talked to the settlement adjuster.) Anyhow, repairing wasn't even an option so I went online to get quotes from SoCal dealers and got two (Toyota of Orange and Longo) that were about $300 below invoice (as near as I could tell). Several of the quotes were as much as $1200 more than the two low quotes. I ended up going with Longo because they were the only ones with a big enough inventory to have the color that I wanted. Longo does have a repair shop, although I didn't need to use it after all. Visiting the Longo site is sort of like going to a Toyota theme park. That place is huge!
Thanks to those of you who offered advice. Hopefully I won't have to ask for repair shop help anytime in the future.

Sue
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ystasino @ May 30 2007, 08:07 PM) [snapback]452445[/snapback]</div>

I am with 21st Century , and the scary moments came when I talked to my credit union (who financed the Prius) and they told me I mgiht have to come up with additional cash after the pay off. The person I spoke to told me that I should have had GAP insurance! After finally getting hold of the settlement adujuster, he assured me that a car that was within one year old, was covered for total replacement of original cost. (Since my car was only 3 weeks old, I was in good shape.) That whole GAP insurance thing is something worth considering, though!

Sue
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