For Total Loss.

On the other hand, if your vehicle is a "total loss", then check with the insurance company you are dealing with for the rental period that it will agree to pay for (while you are out shopping for another vehicle).  If your vehicle is a total loss (will not be repaired), the auto insurance company on the other side will usually agree to pay for about five days of vehicle rental. At the end of that rental period however long it is, you will be forced to return the rental vehicle to the rental vehicle agency no matter what (even if you have not received a check for your own vehicle that was destroyed in the accident by then, even if you have not gone out and bought another vehicle by then, even if you still owe money on the vehicle that was destroyed in the accident, and even though the accident was not your fault).  So, if your vehicle was a "total loss" (sale) then during the few days while you have use of the rental vehicle, you must go out and buy another vehicle no matter what.  Your failure to buy another vehicle during the first few days that you have use of a rental vehicle (no matter what the reasons) will NOT result in you being able to continue driving the rental vehicle at the expense of the insurance company thereafter, no matter what (even though the other side was at fault, even if the other driver was drunk).