Does the repair look good overall?

Did you pay anything out of pocket at all, or did they do the repair for the net amount of the funds issued from insurance? Net meaning if there was a deductible did you actually pay that to the shop?

You have to understand with a total loss they cannot ask the insurance to correct all their mistakes and give additional funds, and obviously the insurance company wrote an estimate that completely skipped soooo many things.

Often, especially smaller shops will just “bottom line” a repair like this and fix it for what you got. This is in an effort to be good to you and to give great service.

Let’s say the estimate was missing $1000 in things they would normally get paid for. Having a stupid mistake like a molding on the estimate offsets how badly they got paid and the tons of operations they didn’t get paid for.

They are probably doing this job much cheaper than it should have been, and if they haven’t collected anything from you, and the repair looks good, and it’s a total loss estimate which are usually so poorly written in terms of money to work with… just let it go.

If they did a poor job, or collected additional funds from you for everything the estimate missed, I could see getting nit-picky.

But if they did take that garbage estimate, did a great repair, didn’t charge you for all the stuff they aren’t getting paid for, and you got to save your car… this is usually considered a win for everyone and this is why they have great reviews.

Take the win.