Had an accident and looking for advice on what's broken

[Jasper7821]

From the drawing it looks like there's a C-clip that hold the flanged shaft (item 15) into either item 5 (differential pinions) or item 1 ( differential housing) so to me it looks like the only way the flanged shaft came out is if something broke off when it was pulled out.

Unfortunately, my agent said as soon as I told him to go forward then it can't be undone. I was thinking about 10k for a shop to repair and he said my insurance would go 2-300 a year for the first year then start going down. So that's why I said go ahead and start the claim.

I bought the Quickjack and was delivered yesterday but I didn't open the boxes cause if it ended up being salvaged, a $1,000 jack was too expensive to change the oil on my later model every day driver.

I have it on a flor jack now, a jack wouldn't fit under the rear so I used the cars jack to lift the front enough so the floor jack would fit under the rear.

Here's a link to more photos since I'm having such a hard time uploading them here.
Scroll to the end is where the damage photos are.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Atil9WC21-BZ3zcz-qUt01dIh_gB?e=A7hRru

Originally Posted by Gilles

Jasper, it seems that the transmission oil that you saw it came when the shaft was pulled from the gearbox, actually does not look bad at all! You want to clean it properly, install an new oil seal and push back the axle into the gearbox when replacing the damaged suspension parts.

Again after you receive the the insurance decision, you will want to remove the broken (and bent) suspensions pieces, would not be surprised if you can get it on the road for not too much money.

Can you still decline the insurance (repair/write off) and fix it by yourself? This way the car will have a clean title..

PS: Why don't you get the car on jack stands, and take several pictures of the damaged suspension components..?