Totaled or not totaled? What will Happen, my accident thread.

not totaled

You didn't even break the wheel.. might need a new wheel along with some other parts but highly doubt you bent the frame

 

Here’s the inside wheel well

 

Spindle, aka steering knuckle, upper control arm, couple of ball joints, and you might be good to go.....

Oh, and a tire.

 

Expensive yes, not totaled

 

maybe cv axle too and check the tie rod

 

Everywhere in my town is booked till May. F$&k this I’m towing it to my house and gonna rip it apart and repair

 

As of the ending of today not much luck on shops. Everywhere is booked for months or they don’t want to fix it, or they don’t take insurance. What a pain. If these next two shops don’t want to do it soon I’m bringing it home. Progressive is not helpful either.

 

just replace steering knuckle, control arm at the very least, then get an alignment. check the sway bar /end links too and the shock and shock mounts and tie rod. the control arms usually bend way before the frame so it probably didn't do any damage to it.

 

That’s what I’m thinking, to be honest it just looks like it was completely thrown out of alignment. The thing that looks the most bent is the sway bar. But of course I need to take it apart to be sure.

 

I can't believe your sway bar would be bent, there is nothing solidly attached to it to bend it. Also, sway bars bend by design, when they bend, they bend back. Spindle, UCA are probably bent. Tire is only gouged on the raised lettering, why replace that? I would also find it hard to believe the tie rod or CV shaft are bent.

Pic doesn't show much besides the tire rubbing on the spindle. Can't see frame mounting points, top of UCA to see if it's bent.

Airbags didn't go off, not totalled.

 

Thank you for that knowledge.
it definitely isn’t totaled and I can’t wait 2 months for my work horse to be sidelined. I probably shouldn’t of even tried with insurance. None the less I’m bringing her home tomorrow. Going to jack her up and take the wheel off. I will take more pictures and post here, I will definitely need help with the repair. I have a mechanic friend that’s going to help. I will be back on this thread for more knowledge. Thanks all

 

I'd consider ordering at least all the parts you think now to make sure can get them and they are not backordered for some odd reason..

 

Problem with that is I don’t know what’s bent or broken. I’m hoping I can get the truck here tomorrow and at least the wheel taken off.

 

order the sway bar and spindle

 

So I got the truck home. Looks like only the ball joint attaching the spindle to the UCA is bent.

 

More pics

 

And the tow truck driver accidentally dropped my truck off the carrier when he was turning around to back the truck in.
Totally smashed my front bumper where there was no damage. There is hardly any damage to the body as is and he totally just made something that wasn’t there.
Sooo. I didn’t have to pay for delivery.

 

Well looks like I need A new UCAS since I can’t change out the ball joints on the stock ones. Might as well get two.
Can anyone recommend affordable UCAS?

 

Is it possible it could have just thrown the lca alignment totally off? The rear cam tab is all the way to the right now.

 

might be able to find someone's take off UCA (that has went aftermarket) if you are trying to save money