[tturedraider]

Diminished value is a relatively new thing and I think it is probably driven mostly by CarFax reporting. Anyway, as such it is very difficult to get insurance companies to agree to pay and it is very difficult to get them to pay a fair amount. I predict one these days there is going to be a class action lawsuit against CarFax for the times their reporting is not accurate and negatively affects the value of cars for which they report inaccurate information.

More than a decade ago now I had a car that was truly totaled by a guy who drove his pickup into the back of it while it was parked and literally pushed the trunk all the way to the base of the back window. I honestly don’t know how the repair was made, but someone bought it and repaired it and sold it. I ran a CarFax report on it about five years later and absolutely nothing showed up on the report.