How will ICBC determine my car is fixable, without looking at it?
If they have given the repair okay, then they have already looked at it. The people at the tow lot, not being auto body repairmen, or trained insurance adjusters, were guessing when they gave you their assessment. The body shop will also double-check to make sure there isn’t hidden damage making the car either unsafe, or uneconomical to repair. Bottom line, if the damage is under a certain percentage of the value of the car, and it has no damage that would be dangerous even after repairing, it will be repaired, certified as to body integrity, and returned to you. There are hundreds of thousands of cars safely and economically repaired and returned to the road without problems. Most of the problem repairs (in Canada) are underground repairs after accidents not reported to or claimed on insurance on cars then sold to unsuspecting buyers. In recent years, such problems on customers’ own cars are becoming rarer and rarer. My present car was repaired some years before I bought it, it is a g
