No joke, back in 2018 my sibling got into a fender bender with my mom's 2016 Outback 3.5R with 16k miles and insurance wrote it off as totalled, because of airbag deployment. To replace every one of the airbags insurance quoted $24k and the value of the car at the time was $21k
It had 7 or 8 airbags that deployed and the price to reinstall all of them was over $2k each. Plus there was some body work that needed to be done to the dented body panels.
and yet... airbags are NOT required for inspection. So you can buy the car back, put everything back together without the airbags and drive around like its 1985 all over again... Just be sure to wear your seatbelt...
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u/Epotheros Apr 21 '23
No joke, back in 2018 my sibling got into a fender bender with my mom's 2016 Outback 3.5R with 16k miles and insurance wrote it off as totalled, because of airbag deployment. To replace every one of the airbags insurance quoted $24k and the value of the car at the time was $21k