Start off at $1000 off the price you negotiate as if the car had no damage.

 

Go way, way down from $1,000, at least in your expectations. This was 17 years ago, but an Accord I owned that was peppered with hail damage dents on the hood, fenders, roof and trunk, had $1,000 of damage according (no pun intended) to the insurance company. Maybe that would be $1,500 or $2,000 today, but we are talking a car with 30 or more dings.

Now, I like wankerklink's idea of starting high and going down from there in your negotiations. There's a lot right with that. Especially with insurance adjusters, where everything is negotiable. But they know their job very well, and realistically, we're talking about a few hundred dollars of damage.

 

In the end, the dings were minor enough that we chose to just have them repaired rather than take the discount (wouldn't really have been enough to be worth it).

Thanks for the info, though. It did help give me ideas when we were in the negotiating process.

 

Welcome Justbu

Hope you enjoy your E for a long time - as others have said........you have joined a cult

ORANGEE

 

yes start very low ....ducking from other dealers on here and then ALSO TELL THEM they will fix the damage also...remember to do that ...like this...neg then in the end when your happy with the price go ummmm wellllllll ok ill buy it if you also fix the paint...if they say no i say walk