2019 Toyota Camry SE
$5,200 asked · 78,000 mi · salvage AZ · just now
- Asking $5,200, worth up to $7,600: $2,400 of room.
- At $5,200 you would be about $4,048 ahead when it is finished and sold.
Budget parts: $7,925 · All OEM: $6,725 compare them
Worth a look at the right price.
The front end needs a bumper cover and a headlight, and the fender wants blending. Most of that is yours to do; the airbag work is not.
Why the hours look like that
A shop would put 3 hours on the estimate for the work you would be doing. That is book time: a trained panel beater, the right tools, the panel already off the shelf.
Yours is 1.75× that - 5.3 hours - which is looking a job up, waiting on a part, and doing the awkward one twice. It is the pace a first rebuild goes. Log a car you finish and it moves to your own measured pace.
Paying a shop for those same hours would be about $396. That is what the weekends are buying you, and it is already out of the price above - nobody is charging you for your own time.
Paint is not in that figure: you said a shop sprays it, so those hours are on the shop line instead.
Where the money goes
| The car, at your max | $7,600 |
| Sales tax | $456 |
| Title, plates and inspection | $205 |
| Parts, balanced build | $560 |
| Shop work | $528 |
| Alignment, scans and calibration | $160 |
| Shop supplies | $57 |
| Cushion for surprises (10%) | $130 |
| All in | $9,696 |
| What it is worth done | $11,200 |
| Left over | $1,504 |
At the $5,200 being asked, you would keep about $4,048.
Your own hours are not in this total: 5.3 of them.
What it looked at
- front bumper cover torn, pushed inmoderate
Could be hiding
- radiator support bentmedium · $450
If radiator support bent turns out to be real, your max price is $7,125 ($475 less).
Check these in person before you pay.
What could change this
- Getting the car home is not in these numbers: towing a car that does not drive runs a few hundred dollars.
- $528 of this has to go to a shop (Paint and refinish). Get a quote before you buy.
Damage read confidence: medium - no underside photos. From 6 photos.
The costs people forget
| Sales tax | $456 |
| Rebuilt inspection | $100 |
| Title | $30 |
| Plates | $75 |
Title and tax figures for AZ are not confirmed yet; they use typical amounts.
Typical figures, not checked against this state. Confirm with the DMV before bidding.
An estimate from photos and listing text, not an inspection. Hours are a competent beginner's, not a shop's. The error band on estimates like this one is not published yet: it comes from the back-test, which needs real sale prices. Another car