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This is what happened:

After my accident (which didn't do much damage to my vehicle at all) I got a quote from a respected body shop in my area. The total bill came out to be like $2,700 for a car that's only worth $1,900. The program the guy was using at the body shop kept telling him that the car was a total loss. Go figure since total loss damage is 70% of the car's value. The insurance company I was fighting didn't want to total my vehicle, instead they wanted to give me $1,700 and the used parts to fix the car. Since I owed more than that on the car itself with my new motor and all I could not accept that offer as it would leave me in the hole a great deal. So I took it to a mechanic shop and they said my motor was sitting the the bay crooked and that my transmission may need rebuilt. The insurance company said I would have to have the transmission taken apart for them to look at to see if the damage was caused from the accident. No problem, but they wanted me to pay for it...problem. So my insurance company came out and looked at my vehicle and said that it was a total loss. My insurance company contacted the other insurance company and told them they should not have kept twisting my about the car, and that it should have been totaled from the beginning. The other insurance company said ok and totaled the car and gave me $500 bucks on top of that. That is what went down, so technically I didn't cheat anybody, they were trying to cheat me and they got what they deserved.