To have your car perfectly (100% cosmetically) fixed by others (I think) that might just cost more than replacing the whole car. I.e. If the repair costs are more than the cost of you buying another similar type /(pre crash) condition car, then yes you write-it-off and put your money into another car. However, if you settle for just getting the car fixed road worthy and not cosmetically perfect then that may be less than the cost of buying another car. I think replacing the rear lights, getting the rear bumper fitted back on right and crudely fixing the body work around the rear wheel arch all might be enough to make the car road worthy again. So if do not mind scrapped doors etc and could do this yourself or get a friend do it then it may be worth spending a bit to get some more motoring out of it. Depends on your finance money position. The hardest most costly part to fix up is the wheel arch as all the other parts like doors bolt off and second ones (even if different colour) could be bolted on. The doors do not look too bad. Most people would / will write-it-off. I sense that you are young though. If it were me I would keep costs down and fix it myself but I have the skills. Do the sums. It is up to you want and what you can do and are happy with driving. I hope that this helps.

Looks like the right rear corner of the car got the worst damage. If you HAD full coverage insurance on it, I suspect that the insurance company would "total" the car as being too expensive to repair. It won't pass any kind of safety inspection in the condition it's in now. It's YOUR choice. If the car still runs and drives, you could "slap a bandage on it" and continue driving it, OR you can pay a lot more than the car is worth to have it completely repaired.

Those are really helpful pictures if you only care about how it looks. Is there any suspension damage? Is the body bent? You could probably fix the looks of it for $500 or less from parts from a junk yard. Add about that much if you want the colors to match and can't find those color parts. If you have much hidden damage, it is probably time to get a different vehicle.

A 10 year old Mazda 3 with 158,000 miles would be totalled if the ashtray needed emptying.

If you don't have full coverage on it, it's irrelevant: you're not going to get paid anything for this wreck. Take it to the body shop and have them try to straighten it out.

Hi there are times in this life when we just have to accept the facts of life a ten year old car is going to cost more to repair it than it's worth. this is one of those times.

ask your adjuster but no, its not junk

So yesterday I got into my first accident going 70 on the highway and the car swerved left and right, it spun out onto the grass and hit the guard railing. The airbags didn't go off and the car runs perfectly fine. I don't have full coverage for the car however and it's has about 158,000 miles on it. It's a 2004 Mazda 3.

Here are the pictures.

http://m.imgur.com/8MBZtrd,7Na7vRz,ulkL3vK,mQUICVp,OHRqqCh,c45DEHo,IpPlwi4,Mo6xmMR,SHRbzsx,QwGt2Dd