1st gen totalled?

[gaz]

@87RangerXLTct
That sucks but I see no broken glass, bend or replace the bumper, any replacement grill...do your best with the little scratches, bumps and dents.

I too would go for the maximum insurance quote, shy of totalled. Get the frame checked, doesn't need to be pretty ..). Bar a couple hammer-outs, his truck now has character!!

 

[SenorNoob]

That bumper is pretty wrecked. Takes a lot force to do that. Mine wasn't that bad and my frame is bent. Not terribly, but it's there. I had to enlarge a couple holes to fit the lift kit and put spacers on the driver's side core support mount to level it out.

That said, I see worse driving around almost every day here.

 

[87RangerXLTct]

I’m going to go look at it tomorrow, I gave it a quick once over right after the accident. The door to fender gaps looked like they hadn’t changed. But I couldn’t get the hood open or crawl under it at the time, to check the frame.

 

[Saddle Tramp]

I'm just glad you're ok after that. They will definitely try to total your truck. Fight it.

 

[97RangerXLT]

having went through this with a 2010 Buick Lucerne in 2024... the car was driveabvle, didn't look that bad either. got rear ended on I 70 in Indianapolis. Car was worth roughly 6,000 dollars. Option to buy back was 600. the only thing that I had to do was throw all of the parts that the body shop removed in the trunk and drive it home. it was in the middle of January, so after putting the taillights back in I just drove it until it got warmer and then put the bumper cover back on it and fixed it with duct tape that matched the paint. believe it or not, out of 20 Lucernes that I looked at in the pull apart in both Indianapolis and Louisville, none, not a single one, had a rear bumper worth removing.

Ended up trading it in for a 2020 Edge in July. that Edge got totalled, my buyback price for it was 2500 bucks, and the damage to it was severre enough that i needed a reliable car right now and didn't have time to peice that one back together again. let that one go, watched the online auction for it and it went for 3500.

AJ