What carriers actually paid for parts

How this was built

Primary documents. Parts lines off adjuster estimates, at the price the carrier allowed. Not a catalogue, not a list price, and not what the shop asked for.

1. 1Parts rows are read out of each parsed estimate, with the description, the operation, the part number where one is printed, and the allowed price.
2. 2Byte-identical duplicate documents and repeated lines are removed. Nearly half of an earlier index was the same paper counted twice.
3. 3Prices are grouped by vehicle make. Low, median and high are the actual observed extremes and the middle value, never a fitted or smoothed figure.
4. 4A make with fewer comparison lines than the publication floor is left off the table.
5. 5VIN and claim number are stripped before the index is written, and the builder asserts they are gone.

What the words mean

Comparison line

One parts row from one estimate, at the price a carrier allowed for it. Written as "lines" in the table.

Low / median / high

The cheapest observed part for that make, the middle one, and the dearest. The range spans every kind of part, from a clip to a bumper cover.

With part no.

How many of that make’s lines printed an OEM part number on the estimate. A line without one is still a real price, it is just harder to match to a specific part.

What these prices cannot tell you

• Coverage by make is severely lopsided. The deepest make carries more lines on its own than the bottom ten put together, and a make with single-digit lines tells you almost nothing.
• A make’s range mixes part types. A headlamp and a fender liner are both parts, and the low-to-high span is therefore a span of part categories as much as of prices.
• Model year is recorded per line but the summary does not control for it, so a make whose lines skew new will read dearer.
• These are allowed prices. What a carrier allows is not always what the part costs, and a line that was argued down after the estimate was written still appears at the written figure.
• The publication floor here is lower than on the panel page, and deliberately so. A price range is an observation about prices that were paid; a replace rate is a claim about how a carrier behaves, and a behavioural claim needs more repetition before it means anything.
• Every document came through one collision and mechanical shop in Orlando, Florida. Rates, part prices and adjuster behaviour are regional, and nothing here is a national figure.
• The vehicle mix is the shop’s mix, which runs heavily to European and exotic cars. A dataset built in a shop that sees mostly domestic sedans would not look like this one.
• Estimator accuracy against settled claims is not measured and no accuracy figure is published anywhere on this site.

In plain English

On the makes this shop sees constantly the ranges are worth quoting. On the rest they are worth reading as a first indication and nothing more, which is why the line count sits in the second column rather than in a footnote.

Index last built 13 August 2026 · page last checked against it 14 August 2026