Help, got into an accident, got ?'s from car peeps

[Deep Sixx]

One more peice of advice: get some decent snow tires.

sixx

[jdev]

take pictures (which you have already done)

call insurance company, explain to them that you were cut off, driver took off.

fight for insurance company to get appraiser to come look at the car.

get appraisal

fight with insurance company to pay you what the appraisal is worth. (otherwise, you are paying upwards of at LEAST 1500 out of pocket. for bumper, light assemblies (turn signals and such) and labor)

take money from appraisal, go to junkyard. find your car there, take bumper. if you are mechanically inclined, or have the patience to read a manual on it, put it on yourself, pocket the rest of the money. otherwise, go to a body shop with the bumper you are likely save a few hundred bucks on, and ask them to put it on, pocked the rest of the money.

[PyRo]

Its the damn paint thats a killer. If you cannot get a color match its atleast $150 a panel to have it painted, plus about $45 a panel for any type of painted on pin striping.
Why must a good paintjob be upwards of $3000