its a crying shame when a couple thousand dollars of body work is all that is needed, yet your nearly totaled because of thousands of dollars of airbags deployed.
if you don't need it right away you could always source air bags from salvage yards for it from trucks hit from the rear. it all depends if you can replace them yourself or if you have to pay someone to do it for you.
back in 1999 I had a brand new Silverado with 300 miles on it hit with very very similar damage and state farm spent $12,000 repairing a $15,000 truck. they replaced both front fenders, both door skins, a front grille, one aluminum wheel and tire, rear bumper and bed side with tailgate and new paint job. my agent said they only total them if repairs are the same or more then book value, he said if they can save $500 fixing it, they will.
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