r/icbc • u/LookAggravating1795 • 8h ago
Claims can i take my car to get fixed before icbc finishes their assessment
I recently rear ended someone (my tires were shitty and the roads were slick) luckily neither car was damaged too badly. However I drive a really old car and I know that even though my car is still driveable and the engine is fine and the only real bad damage is to the hood and a light they are going to write it off. I didn't sign over ownership to icbc because i can get my car fixed for like half the price of buy a new used car. I was just wondering if there was a law against this or if i should just wait. I doubt they will view my car having any worth even tho it only has like 40,000km on it and when fixed (and new tires bought because ignoring that problem just created a new one) it will last me another good 10 years of driving to work. I was just wondering because i've never been the driver in an accident before so i wasn't too sure how it works from this end of things.