CARFAX report devalues your car

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As said, take plenty of pictures to document the damage and present that at trade in time. Also, request a copy of the repairs done and parts installed from the paying insurance company for your records. Any dealer worth doing business with will recognize a, for example, $1,500 repair is minor and the documents will prove that. If they want to make big deal about it, go down the street. There are plenty of other Chevrolet dealers in this country to be loyal to one that won't play fair.

You could always sell it outright for more than you're going to get in trade too, but the manufacturers and dealers have convinced American sheep that they can't/shouldn't do that. I haven't traded a car in, in 40 years. I sell them right from my home.