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If memory serves me correctly, the LCI headlights alone retail for $1900 a piece. And there's something like 3 to 4 modules attached to each headlight, that retail for at least another $1000 (assuming those are broke). So just two new LCI headlights, with the modules, are going to run $5800 retail, at a minimum -- probably more (I think I'm undercutting the price of the modules -- it's been years since I looked). By the time you add everything else that needs to be replaced (air bags, seatbelt tensioners, hood, bumper, grill, fender, and misc underpinnings) with paint and labor, it's easy to see how these cars get totaled out.
If someone is handy the repair might not be too bad to fix yourself (assuming no frame damage). I think they key to getting it back on the road, affordably, would be to see if the car can be coded for aftermarket headlights that are not going to cost a fortune.
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