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Originally Posted by xpl0sive
Usually the process is as follows:
If the car is severely damaged, it goes to the Centralized Estimating Facility where an estimator calculates the repairs required and they determine whether or not the car is worth fixing.
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one minor thing to add to this:
following the accident, the car is taken to the tow company's yard. if your preferred body shop is ICBC accredited, when you call ICBC to report the claim, you can ask them to tow the car directly to your shop and bypass the central estimating facility completely.
that way, the first person who looks at the car and estimates if the car is worth fixing is your body shop guy, not the ICBC estimator. if you have a good body shop guy, this can often be favorable to you.