Got tboned today

Glad you're okay, saw this posted on the TW Facebook page too. No one here has said it yet so I will, this picture is actually kind of funny...it makes it look like the truck somehow rear ended itself lol.

Have you gotten the damage assessed yet? Hopefully no frame damage

 

No I havent had it looked at yet. I was heading to an overtime shift yesterday when I got hit lost 15 mins of pay as well

 

Lol...that's fair. If my 1st gen were to get destroyed I'd look for a pre 1998 4X4 and keep that till the engine blows up (Or dive it like I want to blow up the engine until it actually blows up) and swap in a different engine like a 4 cylinder turbo diesel. I live in CA so it's gotta be pre 1998.

Otherwise I'd be totally happy with a 2nd gen. I've always been jealous of the second gen access cab's suicide style rear doors. Those things would be perfect for a fridge slide.

 

Might as well get a 2nd gen while you're at it, see I knew you would crack

 

Lol...yeah still a Tacoma.

I drive my truck about 5,000 miles a year. It has 207,000 miles. I'd be super happy if it makes it to 300,000 miles. At my current rate of driving it I'll hit 300k in about 2035. Maybe I'll get a gen 5?

 

lol I understand, she must be treated well with only 5k a year.

 

Ok, ok, let's just agree he got boned in the rear

 

Yup, it also helps my daily driver is a motorcycle and I live in a place where I can ride year round.

 

Looking like the other car has no insurance luckily I have uninsured motorist coverage though...got an estimate they wrote it for 3700$ I'm sure it's in total territory

 

Buy it back and part it out. If you can anyway. Not sure I could. I don't have the space for another truck to just hang out.

 

If the frame is OK, buy it back and put glass bed sides on it. If the frame is not OK, buy it back anyway... either way looks very fixable to me.

 

What do you think the trucks valued at?

 

No idea they gave me 3400$ minus the deductible and the money they knocked off for my paint I got 3108 and it didn't total.

 

Good, then your getting it fixed?

 

I fit a light in the bed. I'm gonna find a used bed and paint the whole truck soon

 

I'd be so stoked if someone rammed my truck and I needed a new bed.
I'd build something like this in it's place.

 

you could probably get away with replacing just a bed side, paging @Ice Horse

 

Yes I could just do th bedside bit swapping a good bed is way less work and cheaper

 

Thanks for the page!
The bedsides are kind of a PITA lol. There's about 50+ spot welds on each side you'd have to drill out (front, inside, bottom), then weld back on the new one, and there's epoxy in some spots. Plus there's a brace/bracket thing back by that taillight that might have gotten bent on his.

Much easier in this case I think to find a bed and paint it. Lol

 

Yeah its got damage under the bedside as well. I'm gonna go to the pull a part place when I get back to louisiana and see about finding a used bed on one of the half off weekends. We used the floor system at my old job to pull the bed out enough to get the tailgate to shut and open easily and fit the light in to he legal