Hit an icy patch this morning in Boston and ended up in the highway wall. 2022 S580. Driver steering wheel and knee airbag deployed. What's the likelihood of this being a total loss?

Hope nobody was hurt. I believe this car will be back on the road within 60 days.

depends on current value and current part pricing as well as your insurance company and policy you have.
That thing may be on books for 75K or so and that is not that much damage.

I would say very unlikely its totaled...

Repairable

Thanks all. No injuries, fortunately. I think I was catastrophizing about the damage yesterday in the heat of the moment. Body shop gets it tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have an idea of how things look soon.

I’m sure we would all be interested to hear about the estimate. Best of luck to you!

Glad you're ok

Regardless of your insurance (and their network) make sure you get an estimate ONLY from a Mercedes certified repair shop. This may likely double the cost of the repair and total it if that is what you are going for. This is probably 45,000+ in damage. I’m basing this off of having just had Much less damage to this on an E class and no airbags or anything near this damage. Last guesstimate I made like this was within a few grand

GOOD LUCK and glad you’re safe.

No, I don’t believe your beautiful MB is totaled. The extension for the LWB is bolted onto the front of the frame so if it’s damaged it’s replaceable. Best of luck getting car back on the road.

As others stated, your S-Class will unlikely be totaled, glad you came out unscathed OP. Hope they get it repaired and you are back on the road in no time.

Update....

Car is at a Mercedes-certified collision center. Progressive thinks repairable (to total they would need a repair bill of more than ~70k), but needs a teardown and estimate first. Manager at collision center thinks 40-60K.

Big hiccup. The pyro fuse tripped with airbag deployment, and the electronic systems can't be powered on. The collision center is going to drag the car into the garage to start with an estimate, but clearly can't know true extent of damage until electronic systems are online. MB says the part is not available and there is no estimate when it will be. Anybody with advice on how this could be escalated with MB? As much as I love the fuel efficiency, I'm getting a bit tired of driving my rental Hyundai .

Make sure they realize that you will be requiring a significant diminished value claim as a part of any repair...

Massachusetts does not allow diminished value claims unless another driver is at fault.

Diminished value is urban legend and a waste of time.

I recently endured a 6 month collision-insurance-body shop experience and fortunately had no parts problems, although I fully expected that parts would be an issue. Body shop labor availability was also a concern but no issues there either.

How did you select the body shop?

Pyro fuse blown with airbag deploy is normal and expected. No vehicle function when pyro fuse is blown is normal and expected.

W223 being a new platform is likely the issue for parts availability. Very low unit volume sold so far in the US market, compared to a 2012 Camry.

The $7,000 DV check I received on my Lexus 2 years ago disagrees with that.

I guess I should be jealous that diminished value is the thing in the States, not so much here in Canada.

not a thing in most US states unless another driver is at fault. I'm at fault for this accident (no other cars involved), so I can't file a claim in MA.

It is not your fault, it is the weather, and the streets, and the ice patch... I mean wasn't the city meant to de-ice the road in a timely manner? Like others said, it doesn't matter what you drive but that ice patch can't easily be avoided and so is the accident. Glad you and others are fine though and came out unscathed, that is what really matters.

Thanks. I agree that the accident was caused by weather and road conditions that I did my best to avoid. Unfortunately, the legal language of fault vs. non-fault doesn't really care about that.

Sorry to hear that.

Yeah in my situation I was not at fault

You mean for the diminished value payout?

Thats right, I was rear ended.