Make it clear to your insurance company that you intend to fight for every dime. Fax them proof that your valuation is at least as valid as theirs. At a certain point, as long as you can document it, they'll realize it's probably cheaper to give you the extra hundred bucks than waste their time fighting you about it.
A vehicle that has been totaled can be sold for scrap and parts through junk yards or scrap metal yards. Also there are several businesses that will pay a small amount of money to take the scrap from a totaled car.
Not unless you have the new option in insurance of the new car replacement. If your car is totaled, you will be paid the Blue Book price for your vehicle. This sum is the amount your vehicle is worth at this time. Any amount over this sum that is still owed to a car loan is still due.
Not if you notify you local PVA that the car is totaled and not longer in service. You will pay taxes up to the day it was totaled.
Home equity loan perhaps. No bank is going to finance a totaled car.
Get a new car. == If someone hit your car you will be paid the actual cash value of the car. If you totaled the car and had collision coverage you will be paid actual cash value, too.
No.
drink driving
no
than your car is totaled and your insurance company just pays you a dollar amount instead of paying for the repairs... assuming you have insurance
She took the maximum amount that was allowed out of the bank. He drove the car at the maximum speed limit. They put the maximum effort into winning the game.
Some insurance companies will sell the car back to the owner. Others sell the totaled car to a salvage yard.
A car is considered "totaled" if the cost of repairs is equal to, or greater than, the blue book value of the vehicle.