Originally Posted by Rush

Thanks for the points, you're right.

When I went to start it, I got interior lights, the usual start up routine, plus solenoid, so I knew it wouldn't start. No reason to keep trying that.

Jump: He hooked up the battery pack (correctly), car started first key turn in the time it took him to get from the hood to the key, I pulled it out of the parking space took it no farther than 25 yards, and it died while in drive.

After that? Nothing. No interiors, no locks, warning flashers, no solenoid.

No worries about being a downer, rather cover all the bases. I can't fathom that the insurance company would go see it after talking to the shop if they thought it a snowball's chance in hell that it would be covered. Frankly, I'm sure the inspector and the shop know each other well. Good working relationship anyway.

His point about totaling it was not that he would be totaling it, but that the cost to repair would amount to the same thing.