Originally Posted by
Deal4Fuji
My youngest daughter had a 30 mph front end collision in her '11 Hyundai Sonata that resulted in air bags deploying. To replace the airbag wiring "harness" that runs around the seats was $8000 alone. The front had some damage to the hood, grill, bumper and lights on one side, but the radiator was fine and the car was driveable. You'd never think the car would be totaled looking at it, but with $8K in just the airbag wiring harness + the other damages it was.
Yikes! Never knew that the harness also needed to be replaced. Although we never know what the front-end collision would do but never would have guessed the harness would need to be replaced at all. My wife scraped a parked car while trying to parallel park a while ago. She only hit and lightly scratched the rim on the wheel. But the hit on the front wheel hosed the front suspension and broke the steering box on a front wheel drive VW Passat. The bill for that was over $2000. I'm also glad to get rid of that car. Sometimes that front passenger floor takes in water. Last time it flooded the transmission control module (TCM) right near the door sill. Getting that part is usually $1200 or so from the dealer. However the dealer said that they couldn't get it in this case. It was for a turbo diesel (TDI) and they only import the last two years of that series back in 2004 and 2005. So I was "lucky" to find a used replacement from ebay at $900.