Just a heads up. It's illegal for insurance companies to "steer" you towards a particular shop. From my understanding, and I can confirm if you'd like, you can go to whatever shop you feel like and they will still have to pay. They try to get you to use their preferred shops but you don't have to. But they may have better relations with certain shops that gets things done quicker and less arguing come supplement time. (after they take it apart and find little odds and ends).
As far as diminished value goes, depending on how much you're trying to get and what the company thinks you can get, $400 isn't bad considering the one guy who does it in Richmond gets like over $600 but that usually covers the whole deal. If the insurance company says no and you have to take them to court, they'll usually testify as an expert on your behalf. That doesn't mean you'll win but again, it probably depends on how much you're trying to get to know if it's worth the hassle of a third party company.
I'm not sure but could check, but I'd think you can request the diminished value and if the insurance company says no then hire the third party but I guess you would then need a way to determine what value the was diminished beforehand. Like Joey said, you could take the difference between fair, rough and clean values and try it that way. But I believe most insurance companies actually use nada. They may use both now but the 3rd biggest in the county used primarily nada.
Edit: if I recall, diminished value people/companies just use some sort of algorithm or formula which I'm sure you could find somewhere on the interwebz to calculate how much you should ask for.
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As far as diminished value goes, depending on how much you're trying to get and what the company thinks you can get, $400 isn't bad considering the one guy who does it in Richmond gets like over $600 but that usually covers the whole deal. If the insurance company says no and you have to take them to court, they'll usually testify as an expert on your behalf. That doesn't mean you'll win but again, it probably depends on how much you're trying to get to know if it's worth the hassle of a third party company.
I'm not sure but could check, but I'd think you can request the diminished value and if the insurance company says no then hire the third party but I guess you would then need a way to determine what value the was diminished beforehand. Like Joey said, you could take the difference between fair, rough and clean values and try it that way. But I believe most insurance companies actually use nada. They may use both now but the 3rd biggest in the county used primarily nada.
Edit: if I recall, diminished value people/companies just use some sort of algorithm or formula which I'm sure you could find somewhere on the interwebz to calculate how much you should ask for.
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2004 Honda S2000
2001 F-150 4X4 6" lift on 37" tires
2007 GSX-R 600
2008 SX-R 800
1992 (slammed by PO) 240sx Coupe (SOLD)
1999 BMW POS ///M3(SOLD)
1998 Honda Civic EX beater (SOLD)
2001 F-150 4X4 6" lift on 37" tires
2007 GSX-R 600
2008 SX-R 800
1992 (slammed by PO) 240sx Coupe (SOLD)
1999 BMW POS ///M3(SOLD)
1998 Honda Civic EX beater (SOLD)