My baby recently sustained a significant amount of front end damage. Some jerk decided he wanted the parking space my husband was parking in more than we did, and backed his full size van into my poor M3, then lied to the police and insurance company and told them that we hit him. Anyway, had the car towed to Wagonwork in Alexandria. Geico has now informed us that the car is a total loss at about $14K in damage, according to the estimate from Wagonwork. We've been arguing with Geico on a number of fronts about this, but in my last conversation with them, they told me the car probably wouldn't have been totaled if I had taken it to BMW of Fairfax. Does anyone know how true that is? I know Wagonwork isn't cheap, but I can't imagine that BMW of Fairfax would be much cheaper. Personally, I think Geico is just trying to deflect some of my wrath elsewhere, but I wanted to see if anyone else had a similar experience.

Thanks!

Sarah, a very heartbroken former M3 owner