A-pillar damage to new Tacoma

Mine look similar to yours! My ocd is satisfied is it visible still or it's completely gone?

 

Interesting responses.
My take: The A and B pillars are your life savers when it comes to a rollover. Really want to mess with them? They are designed the way they are to protect the folks in the vehicle. The dents are the weakest spot in your A pillars now.
You can cosmetically make the dents go away. But it will not restore integrity of your lifesaving pillars.
Not sure what the insurance will say after a rollover when the A pillars were compromised before thee crash and the roof collapsed in the driver's face.
On the other hand you could be happily driving your Taco till the frame is rusted through and you decide to buy a 9th gen Tacoma...
Just saying...

 

Might be too late now. Lol

 

Interesting theory

 

when I see the fence makes me think its from someone else's property.... and their responsible to fix

 

It’s going to take awhile, but I’m sure they’ll figure it out : )

 

Unfortunately for me, no. That area outside of the fence is deeded green space to the community. We don't have an HOA either. No entity is accountable for those tree's.

So out of my own pocket I paid to cut down about 7 pine trees after that.

 

PDR will not compromise the A pillars
A conventional repair of a dent like that will not compromise the A pillars
The insurance company woudn't say anything in the scenario you presented because any such loss would be a covered loss

 

It is their responsibility ONLY if the tree was a known/obvious hazard. If the tree was dead, if it was visibly damaged/diseased prior to falling, that kind of thing. If a storm blows over what outwardly appeared to be a healthy tree, the owner of the property on which the tree was standing is not liable.

 

... the A pillar IS compromised already. THAT is the point!

 

It's not structurally compromised. At all. OEM's publish repair procedures for every car they make. If that type of damage compromised the integrity of the structure of the panel, Toyota would specifically prohibit repairing that part. They don't. You are offering an uninformed or misinformed opinion as fact. You are factually incorrect.

 

What about insurance? wont they total it and get you new truck? its not your fault its the natural disaster.

Besides, it is barely visible to be honest, I would just replace the glass and go on.

 

Are you asking if the insurance company will total it just because it wasn't his fault and was a weather event? If so, the answer to that is no. That has nothing to do with it. If the cost of repairs is less than the value of the truck minus the expected salvage sale amount, it's repairable. If it's not, it's a total.

 

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This is such a bad reply it is actually embarrassing to read.

 

He said body shop told him that pillar goes all the way to the back. So if they have to disassemble half of the truck skeleton to get those fixed, I am assuming its not only costly but also I would really feel safe after that. Bodyshop does good job but not as good as it came out from factory.

They will have to take doors off maybe, dashboard, windows. Who knows what else and assemble all that back again. Its not dude's fault that natural disaster happened, it could happen to anyone. Why should he be driving taken apart & put back truck, his family inside. If insurance can do their job and get him new one, all they do is take our money anyway.

 

The pillar does not go all the way to the back. Toyota sells each component of the side separately. The pillar, if replaced, gets sectioned in 150mm from the top of the windshield opening, and then through the outer rocker panel. OP's dent is right through the section area, which in theory would require making the cut at the center pillar sectioning point instead. That point is through the middle of the front door opening on the forward portion, and through the middle of the rear door on the rearward portion. But since his dent is repairable, none of this matters anyway.

The fact that it was a weather event has no bearing on anything. Lots of things happen that aren't someone's fault. It doesn't mean the vehicle is a total loss.

 

Yeah that’s repairable all day long. The outer portion of the A-pillar isn’t structural, it’s the inner that is. Granted, to paint it correctly, the bed still needs to come off. Not a big deal though.

 

So, you are saying that the outer area of the A pillar is only cosmetic and not structural? Funniest post ever read.
It is the entire A pillar that makes up the integrity. It is the combination of all portions of the A pillar that add up the the total integrity.
Not sure it it is cool to give questionable advice that is leaning to unsafe here.
But - not my car, not my problem. OP has to make up own mind.

 

Good luck messing further with the A pillars.

 

Those documents you posted aren't relevant at all as to whether that can be repaired. Toyota says it can be repaired. Do you know more than the Toyota engineers who designed and built the truck?

Doubling down on being factually incorrect is a weird flex.