A Work in Progress

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Truck looks great.....







.......the accident sucks!!!!

 

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Thanks guys, hoping it will he back to looking great soon.. this will also give me a chance to possibly look into some new upgrades the wheels are turning over here.

 

Went up Tonga ridge yesterday. Great time, but the snow was crappy! Still fun

 

Just caught your build, love how your rig looks so far! I really like how those bushwhacker flares look actually, I can't find a decent oem replacement for mine. ( I broke most of the mounting tabs trying to take them off the first time) I may go with something like those. Just not sure if I like how the bolt heads show. If you don't mind me asking, how much did they set you back?


BTW, great snow wheelin' pics! Any vids?

 

I actually got the flares off here, I think I paid about $300 for them. i know they go on sale in Amazon every once in awhile for about $450. the bolts are completely useless so if you don't like them you don't have to put them on. Or you can get the non pocket style which doesn't have the bolt holes. I broke my stock ones too taking them off! An thanks I do have vids but none if my truck. I'll have to figure out how to post them. Do u know how?

 

Well... Kinda Bad news took it to a body shop and they said that the Frame on the passenger side is pushed back and that's why it's pulling to the right... So since insurance isn't covering it they said the repairs would be about 4-6k but couldn't give me an exact amount until the took it apart. Soo time to start saving. Looks like I'll be driving it like this for another month or two.

 

Damn, that sucks! Time for a solid axle instead so you can weld your own mounts to the frame?

 

Thats one good looking DCLB. Frame damage sucks

 

Nice looking Tacoma!
If you were a dude, I might be tempted to make a cliched joke about how you must be compensating for something with all of that DoubleCabLongBed-ness.
Since you're a girl, it's just cool.
...what a double standard.


Edit: Ooh...just saw the broken nose on it a few pages back. That sucks.

 

$300 is a good deal. Good to know that they have pocket style flares tho, I'd prefer that look. These stock flares have been such a pain tho. I can't count how many times I've try jb welding the mounting tabs back on my originals. I think I may just stay on the look out for a used oem set. Seen them go for around $200 or so.. If you'd like to post videos, just upload them to YouTube then copy and paste the url into a forum post. Pretty easy once you've done it a couple of times.

Wow! Tough deal there! I'm very sorry to hear that. Reminds me of my first accident ever in my brand new truck with 12K kms on the odo. Over $12k in damage on the front passenger side from rear ending another car. That hurt so I feel your pain.

 

snow run looks like a blast! so jealous!

 

Frame Damage is definitely putting a damper on things. An straight axling it is becoming a serious consideration. There are so many pros an cons to it tho. So gonna do lots of research. Technically the truck is totalled... But since insurance isn't covering it they will not total it out. Which I'm kinda thankful for. I love this truck too much, starting over would be kinda depressing. Either way I'm thinking it will back to perfect in 3-4 months. Until then I'll still take it out to get my fix lol, but will be taking it easy.

 

Doesn't get much better then snow wheeling! I love it!

Haha ya I love my trucks it's fun having two great trucks. And it's awesome that my yota got in a wreck where it was the only rig to drive away even though it had the hardest hit.. I straightened out the bumper and ppl have been asking me if I got it fixed because there is so little visible damage. Can't go wrong with a good ol yota

 

Looks like fun!
Bummer on the accident and the insurance nightmare.

I haven't ventured into the snow yet.
See ya on the PNW trails @ Liberty, Naches, Kainer flats, Manashtash (spelling), Evans creek, Tahuya...

I am the Yeti (03 DCSB) with pizza cutters

 

Thanks! It's a lot of fun and I'll keep an eye out for ya! Any set dates for any of those runs that u know about? I'd love to go, but need to do some things to my truck first

 

We did Tahuya about a month ago, it was one of the only days in November that didn't rain. Lots of deep "puddles"...

Not sure on dates yet, I also have some things to fix.

 

Nice, well I'll have to keep a look out on any possible get togethers once my truck is ready again. I wanna get it fixed and at least sliders and a few other things before I venture too far.

 

Couple videos from Tonga. Nothing too exciting lol One thing that sux about being the person taking pics and videos is you don't get any of your own rig doing anything! I have one more video to put up hut it's taking forever to up load to YouTube..

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M7mZfg_stc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvhNQm1sYE&feature=youtube_gdata_player