A car IS MORE LIKELY to be considered totaled once the air bags have deployed ONLY IF the vehicle WASN'T WORTH MUCH before the accident. For example, let's say you're in an accident and your car's pre-crash actual cash value was $15,000 (CAUTION, MATH CONTENT AHEAD, look at this ...
vehicles, which have highlydepreciated. Airbags are very expensive, upwards of $1,000.4So, when an older-model vehicle has a deployed airbag, plus the body damage that caused the airbag to deploy in the first place, it often won't be worth repairing—meaning that the car is totaled.1 ...