Have to say goodbye...truck is totaled.

I don't even know the guy but I like how he rolls. Not sure why but I think the truck looks kinda bad ass all beat up. You'd never worry again in a parking lot.

 

It's going to cost around $19K to fix the damage which is right around what the truck is worth and why insurance is totaling it. The seats alone cost $6K which sucks.

 

Yeah I can't imagine how much worse it could have been if the stock suspension was still on the truck.

 

Man, that really sucks. If that happened to mine I'd probably buy it back, turn it into the Mad Max special, and use it as a beater. It's still good for camping, offroading, hauling random crap around, getting to work when the weather is bad, all of that. I'd use the rest of the insurance payout to get a Camry or an Accord or something for the new daily driver.

 

I chatted with someone from Oregon who got a set of bucket seats with airbags from $300 (for the set)!

 

Glad you're ok...can always get another truck.
For the places you guys go and how you do it,I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.Nothing judgemental here,it's just how it seems to me.I've done my damage in my time.

 

No I don't. I was just driving on a gravel road back from a camping trip.

 

Amazing. This is my 2009 last summer. Airbags did NOT deploy. Totaled anyway.

 

This is the guy who hit me from behind (the truck, not the guy in the blue shirt). His air bags didn't go off, either. The only thing I can figure is that I was moving forward at maybe 4-5 mph and that slowed the impact over a long enough time period to not trigger. Or it's just a fluke.

 

Next gen airbags

 

Oh man sorry to see. Makes me realize how lucky I got on just the hood and fender. That one looks pretty bad.

 

Sorry to hear this. I would purchase a new neck, and spine. Duck tape the dash and seats back together and keep the truck.

 

Definitely sucks to see. Glad you are ok.

Although, Im not understanding how Toyota “gave you the middle finger”?

You wrecked your truck and the airbags worked as designed.

You impacted hard enough to cause damage to your front end. Airbags should have deployed.

 

Exactly what Id try to do.

 

From now on, I'm going to shut off my side curtain airbags when traveling on an unfamiliar backroad...

 

airbags did just what they were supposed to do.

suspension fully compressed under normal circumstances the skid is still a few inches off the ground.

You hit so hard you broke a headlight tab and pushed a tire so hard up into the wheel well that it bent body panels. You. Hit. HARD. and directly on the frame, does not surprise me that airbags went off. You likely bent tons of shit on the front suspension as well.

 

Not that anyone on this particular thread cares, but Marathon responded and their seat covers are compatible with side air bags. The stitching is break away in the correct spots, they even sent me a post-deployment photo. Felt I owed it to the company to post the info given that I'd asked the question.

 

Just seemed like a faulty design to me. The air bags going off is what really could have caused an accident. I was driving blind when they went off...safety concern. Luckily there's no trees to hit in Indiana; just cornfields.

 

How fast were you going? Did you check out the major hole you hit in the road? Sounds like there was a wash out or something that you slammed into at speed. The airbags went off because the truck thought you were slamming into something.

The truck detected a major impact, which from the pictures, obviously DID happen. The truck did its job to keep you safe in the event of a significant impact.

 

Was there an IED buried in that pothole?