Last Thursday on the way to work, I was unintentionally involved in a physics experiment... can a S40 and a 8 point buck occupy the same space at the same time

In case you are wondering, the answer is no. Buck and car do not fare well.

Ins has looked at it (but didn't remove anything or try to start it), so their estimate is not complete. It is at the body shop at my 'local' volvo dealer. They still have not been able to push it into the garage to break it down and finish finding everything that is broken.
From just looking at it, you can see the doors are tweaked. They had a guy that buys totaled volvos out to look at it today and he thinks the unibody is likely bent causing the tweak of the doors. The body shop hopes to get it in the garage tomorrow to look at it.

But what does a bent unibody mean?
The estimate the ins guy has is at $6500 already and the garage says they expect it to go up, but not enough to reach 75% of the value for a value based total. Ins estimate is mostly cosmetic, but doesn't do anything about the fact my car does not start now. The AC compressor clutch has been replaced 2x already (once because it died and the second time because the first dealer screwed up the install) - the deer took it out a third time :lol:
The bright side is that it didn't lose too much of the value since I bought it... a good chunk of it is mileage (82,000+ miles in 2 years) - though at the moment it is worth about $73.00

I have the sales team searching for a '06 or '07 S40 T5 AWD for me just in case it ends up totaled. I figure if I have to replace it, I'll upgrade to the T5 and go with the AWD


While looking through the photos, I just saw an issue on the driver side front panel that isn't on the ins estimate.


Here are some photos
before - nice and clean and crumple free (I had it detailed the day before the deer incident too!)
(IMG:http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/trudy_w/car_before.jpg)

after:
(IMG:http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/trudy_w/IMG_1879.jpg)

(IMG:http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/trudy_w/IMG_1906.jpg)


So again - anybody know what the ramifications of a bent unibody would be?