New Member Needs Advice

[dougpgreen]

Got hit last October , $9K plus for repairs , new door was $1K , unpainted

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Ugh...mine was a bit more extensive, including frame damage. Estimate was over 14K without getting it onto a lift they expected to find more once they started working on it. Given a 2014 with 150K miles insuance decided to total it.

 

[r2m]

Ugh...mine was a bit more extensive, including frame damage. Estimate was over 14K without getting it onto a lift they expected to find more once they started working on it. Given a 2014 with 150K miles insuance decided to total it.

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Hope you get enough from insurance to replace it with a newer one with less miles!

 

[MeefZah]

Install the bumper now (assuming it will fit since it was designed for the pre-facelift model?).

I hammered out my mods as fast as I could afford them and as fast as my bumper could be built after I bought my used 2020 10 months ago. I enjoyed the GX stock but it really came in to its own and is a lot more enjoyable now that it is built the way I wanted it.

If you already have the bumper and the vision, why wait?

PS your valley plate is fine...

 

[dougpgreen]

I designed a bumper filler + radiator skid that also pulls the fender liners pretty much as far as they will go without heat molding.
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Attaches to the lower lip and corners of the bumper cover and fender liners and bolts to the crash beam and stock skid.

Planning to offer it on my website in a couple weeks.

The possibility of getting something like this just made my decision interesting.

 

[dougpgreen]

Hope you get enough from insurance to replace it with a newer one with less miles!

I got enough to replace it with another of the same year and mileage. We decided to put more money in and replace the 2014 with 150K miles with a 2020 with 67K miles. It's a compromise. My wife likes new cars and feels this is big compromise. I feel like its a brand new car.

 

[dougpgreen]

Do you have additional info on the brackets you had made? I haven’t cut my front bumper (yet), but I did remove the lower valence and support brackets. Just moved up to 33s and need to do a little fender line massaging. It would be nice to add some rigidity back.

The lower valence on my 2024 got removed not by me but by a hard impact. I was worried not only about rigidity of the bumperr and wheel well, but also about keeping water out of the air intake which is located near the passenger wheel well. I just got a stiff piece of plastic and fabricated it to fit using a heat gun. I atteched it with the bolt holes from the valence in the front. It the back, there is an unused captive nut, just above the factory tie downs if I remember correctly. I made an L bracket that came to the right level. I then attached to the fender well. It involved lot of trial and error/trim to fit, but even with that it took under an hour. I wish I had taken pictures. Unfortunately the car is in a junkyard somewhere.