Truck Vs Mail box

Well Tacoma world I really fucking did it this time. On my way home last night when a hit a particularly slick piece of ice and went head on with those brick mail boxes. All good short of a little neck pain and a soon to be sore wallet. No airbags. Anyone know how much I could be looking at to fix this? I'll provide specific pictures if requested.
Frame isnt bent just that little dent but I know nothing about body repair

 

Truck drives "fine" as in no lights on the dash and no leaking fluid. Steering is slightly off and wheel needs turned slightly to the right to drive straight

 

Jesus that’s a strong mailbox.
Possibly LCA or lca mounts are bent
Or tie rods

 

aside from the obvious i don't see any frame damage. good luck with the re-build. i think if you replace with like-OEM parts plus labor: under 10k. my guess

 

Expensive, getting a quote is only way. Hope insurance covers it.

 

I appreciate it guys

 

Call you insurance company, they’ll send an adjuster out and give you an estimate.

This was about 5k$ worth of damage.



Fender, light, fog light, bumper cover, under light filler panel, flare, flare extension and a couple small brackets got replaced.

 

Oh boy

 

$3,500 like your damage, still had to replace bumper and underneath bits

 

Pretty sure mail box structures have certain guidelines to adhere too. Brick or heavy pipe, etc, isn't permissible IIRC. Ya might wanna check into that...

 

I did similar damage to my my 2nd gen. It was around 8k to fix.

 

First thing I thought as well, what was the mailbox made out of?

 

dammm

sorry to hear that.......sucks

Curious how the ARB would have helped ?

 

We have a lot of those brick shit house mailboxes around in the more wealthy neighborhoods, I always wondered what kind of damage they would do if someone ran into one... they look way to beefy. I would think that you would want to make the mailbox weaker rather than having it destroy a vehicle, its much cheaper to replace a mailbox. Hope your repairs go well. Do you have full coverage or just liability?

 

These guys in Missouri don’t fuck around with their mailboxes. To many dumb kids going around smashing them with bats out the car windows.

I wish some dumb punk would have smashed his bat on that one over OP’s truck.

 

Years ago, the drunk guy down the road took out our mailbox one night. The next day, my dad buried an 8" steel pipe with a piece of channel iron welded on the top for the new post. We had an excavating business so he dug the hole with one of his back hoes. I'd hate to see what that thing would do to a car.
I've always questioned the legality of putting something so solid right off the road.
You'll have a healthy bill there. I'm guessing $5k-ish.
We should start a pool!

 

Why is your stock bumper still visible back there

 

That’s why brick mailboxes are banned in some areas.

 

It actually was hit beforethese people are family friends and idk if that makes it better or worse. He said the first time it got taken out the thing basically turned to dust. I wish I was that lucky because I spent the morning picking bricks up