Advice Wanted // Post-Accident Repair

You need a frame shop and not your normal dealer repair to do that correctly. In this day n age they may try to bend it back into alignment (with or without heat) and you’ll just end up with alignment issues and weaker mounting for the next hit. That’s probably got to be cut off and re-done, and Toyota probably won’t sell just that mounting, so a frame shop will need to fabricate it. I’d be questioning the insurance and and shop carefully over that fix, and I’m just going be your description, pics would help. It’s not a bad thing, as a quality frame shop will give you a far better end product than the Toyota factory, but your average dealer will be far a worse product than you started with.

 

Whatever shop you decide to use take a tour of the facility...is it clean? Is it organized? If they can’t take pride in their place of business you can bet they won’t take pride in their work and you’ll be left holding the bag. If it were me and the truck wasn’t totaled I would get it fixed file a separate claim for diminished value and sell it to buy another one.

 

Update on my original post:

The collision center which I chose was able to straighten everything to meet original Toyota specs and is proceeding with the repairs (should take about 2 weeks).

I really appreciate everyone’s input and my plan now is to wait for repairs to be complete, file claim for diminished value based on wreck being on CarFax and then drive the truck to see if I am comfortable keeping it or if I will trade for a new one.