Car crash price- back axle?? panel beating

No question that it is a write off, needs an axle, stub axle, bearing, benching, quarter panel repair / sill pull and a door plus painting.

I was in a similar situation with my 2010 Audi A4, got damaged more or less the same amount as your car, insurance wrote it off and paid me 5.5k then they sold the car to a dealer for 2k, then the dealer fixed it and sold it online for €6k.

the insurance wrote it off because it wasn’t worth their time to continue paying for a hire car whilst they paid top dollar for brand new parts from Audi. I considered buying the car back myself and fixing it - priced it at about €1200 to source 2 panels, get them painted, and a headlight, and could’ve fit them myself.

my point being, they’ll write off cars when it isn’t worth it for them to fix it because they have to use top name garages with high labour rates using brand new OEM parts, whilst paying for a hire car in the meantime. But somebody privately fixing it could source the parts and get it fixed for much cheaper using 2nd hand panels etc, I’m not saying doing a half arsed or dodgy repair, but there’s no reason to go and pay huge money for things like a door when you can get one from a breaker for half nothing and get it sprayed

Btw, your car is 100% an insurance write off. However as I said above, it still may be viable for you to get it repaired.

one thing I didn’t see here already was the fact that if an insurance company decides that car is a write off, it is recorded on a national database against the registration number and VIN number, anybody looking to buy your car when the time comes to sell, will most likely use a site like Motorcheck or Cartell etc to run a history report, and the write off status will be flagged, this will significantly impact the value of the car, you need to take this into consideration.