If you have the frame completely coated somehow to prevent any future rust before they put it on, you might have a huge selling point further down the line over other LC’s.
T-Boned and not a steak! Any recommendations?
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I think you are SOL. You had a factory perfect truck and now it’s had major major surgery. I’d cut my losses and go buy something else. And I’d raise holy hell with my insurance company. They should have written you a check for $80k and sold your car on copart for $30k, and It should have happened 9 months ago. Everyone would have been way ahead.
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Bad news.....
So here we are middle May and no closer to any ETA on frame. I've created a ticket with Toyota NA for Parts Delay middle of March and nothing. I followed up this week and was told they are still investigating it. No idea if the frame is even in the hopper to be built....
Insurance is becoming a joke as well, I'm working with Traveler's which is my insurance (Underinsured policy) and keep hitting walls.....
This is crazy. Anyone with any connections with Toyota NA or Higher up with Traveler's?
You've been dealing with this for a year? It's lawyer time.
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I've been talking to a few.... property damage in South Carolina is a unique thing....
Wow, I cant imagine how you must be feeling. I would have gone absolutely bonkers by now. I wish I had some better suggestions but yeah, lawyers. And I would be demanding a LOT of diminished value. If I was a buyer looking at a car that had a major accident and the frame had been replaced, I would basically value it as a salvage vehicle. There are law firms that specialize in diminished value.
My wife got hit lightly a while back in our 2018, it required a bumper and some paint and I spoke with a friend of mine who is a lawyer and deals with property damage in SC. He had never even heard of diminished value!
I dealt with it myself and got $1000 of dim value out of the insurance company, Allstate, who SUCKS to deal with.
But considering that if one were to add up what it sounds like it will cost to repair that vehicle, plus actual diminished value, plus a rental car for a freaking year (!), all of which I think you are owed, that would have to be close to totaled. Right? Uggh. Godspeed my fellow South Carolinian friend.
My wife got hit lightly a while back in our 2018, it required a bumper and some paint and I spoke with a friend of mine who is a lawyer and deals with property damage in SC. He had never even heard of diminished value!
I dealt with it myself and got $1000 of dim value out of the insurance company, Allstate, who SUCKS to deal with. But considering that if one were to add up what it sounds like it will cost to repair that vehicle, plus actual diminished value, plus a rental car for a freaking year (!), all of which I think you are owed, that would have to be close to totaled. Right? Uggh. Godspeed my fellow South Carolinian friend.