totaled cars
Beyond economical repair
Totaled cars are vehicles damaged so severely that repair costs exceed their market value.
Insurance companies declare a car totaled—or a total loss—when fixing it makes no economic sense.
The term comes from "total loss" but has become standard in everyday speech: After the accident, they totaled my car.
A totaled car may still be drivable, but it's worth more as salvage than as a repaired vehicle.
- wreckedUtterly destroyed
- car wreckDestroyed vehicle from collision
- written offRegarded as worthless
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
- auto salvageReclaiming usable car parts
collision · fender bender · crash · pile up · junkyard · insurance · insurance claim · demolished · smashed · wreckage · fender · airbags · mangled · write-off · scrap · twisted · metal · scrap metal
- junkyardscar bodies, auto parts, salvage parts, salvage, wrecking
- weather damagestorm damage, wind damage, hail damage, flood damage, tornado damage