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Originally Posted by BavarianFanatic
As an aside, one word of advice for anyone unfortunate enough to have a wreck, always have the vehicle towed to your home if at all possible. This affords you the ability to remove whatever modifications you've installed if you think it's likely the vehicle might be a total loss. It also allows you to clean the vehicle if necessary to show its true condition in the event you need to battle for an accurate condition assessment. Finally, it will save storage fees that might accrue during the negotiation process.
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Agreed that towing it home would allow one to remove add ons.
However, this has also been known to cause issues, especially if the Insurance Company views photos of the car at the accident scene and see parts have been changed. At that point, they suspect that you have done things to the car to make it worse going for a totaled car - or commit Insurance Fraud.
That - or in other rare instances - the Insurance Company claims that all the damage was not caused by the Insured - and some was done after the fact by you.
Towing it to a neutral 3rd party eliminates that possibility.