man some of you guys have no sympathy..
when i had my civic stolen, i didn't want it back, even tho i loved the car.. i just thought, if i did get it back, it would be what i had, but worse.. worse in a way that I didn't know what happened to it when it was gone.
when my car was found 1.5 days later, the interior was all jacked up and the chairs were greasy.. i even found french fries in the back seat. Now this was a car i babied for a whole year since I got it new: kept the interior clean and smelling like Air Spencer Squash, and washed and waxed the outside every two weeks. Those guys who stole the car don't give a crap about it, so they treated it like crap. There was too much damage to the electrical system of the car (the theives stripped it all out and broke the circuit boards) that the insurance decided it was "totalled".
Would I want to own that car again knowing its been "violated" even if they fixed it back to the way it was? Hellz no.. just gimme the insurance money and i'll buy a brand new car.
which is how i got my celica. I still loved that civic.. but now i love my celica.