Disturbing picture of my Raptor after going through a tornado
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I can not get my truck repaired tell October, the window will be fixed Monday, right after this happened my daughter was on the phone with the insurance company putting the claim in, she loves that truck just as much as I do
I never experienced a slow week at my dad's, and we were a high end / specialty shop. If not for his addictions it would be open today.
I do not miss fighting with insurance companies though. This month, and all day today has been flashbacks of hell. If an insurance company can skimp, cut corners, or avoid paying for something, they will. You pay premiums expecting great service, and in the end you get a razor wire enema with pepper spray and alcohol.
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The moneymaker!
Y’all will have body fillers somewhere. They may replace the hood, fenders and such. The roof, no way. As mentioned, you will always have some type of filler. It’s how it works.
This. I thought they were joking when I heard my insurance company wanted to use junk yard parts on my repair.
They weren’t. And it’s an “accepted practice in the industry.”
It’s stuff like this that makes finding a good body shop even more important.
Glad you and your girl are ok. I'd keep the truck just like it is. Those are battle scars, dude. Your truck fought a tornado, and was ready to square off against two others, but they ran away scared. That truck's a keeper. Only thing I'd do is paint three miniature tornado symbols on the driver's side front fender, like the fighter pilots do when they shoot down an enemy plane. And a banner across the back: "I Fought Three Tornadoes, And Kicked Their Asses!"
That is how busy the shops are here, we have had hail for like every other day here
I have actually been in an argument over this garbage in the past few days. Spend an extra $100 and use a legitimate new part.
...and then the Gieco adjuster said, "You drive a used car".
Guess what; the moment the pen hits the title the car is used. Morons.
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I say have your Daughter find a PDR guy to date, for just long enough... then drop him like a bad habit !
One of the guys at my local body shop used to work for an insurance company and makes it painless for me.
“Sorry, we couldn’t find that part in the junkyard and have to go with new OEM.....”
That would make for a great Raptor commercial or a natural disaster movie trailer.
Boyyyy
Replace the back glass, get yourself a tall boy, and cruise on.
That ain't nothing. A trailer popped off my hitch (shitty half broken lock) while I was loading it, and it jumped up and stabbed my Tacomas tail gate. I love my truck, and it bothered me. SO I shotgunned a beer shortly thereafter, and it's now a proud battle scar. That truck protected you're daughter. You should be proud
Replace the back glass, get yourself a tall boy, and cruise on.
That ain't nothing. A trailer popped off my hitch (shitty half broken lock) while I was loading it, and it jumped up and stabbed my Tacomas tail gate. I love my truck, and it bothered me. SO I shotgunned a beer shortly thereafter, and it's now a proud battle scar. That truck protected you're daughter. You should be proud
I am very proud of my Raptor, it took on the tornado and came out on top, it took the brunt of the damage but if we did get out, that would have been a really bad scene, they say you are supposed to get out of your car and get in a ditch, that hail would have killed us so we stayed in the truck and since there were 2 of them it lasted 1/2 hour and that has been the longest 1/2 of my life. I can say I went through a few tornado's and me and my daughter walked away. I was more scared for my daughter then anything else, as a father you want to just take that away so it will be better. I told her we will be find we are in the Raptor and we are protected by the truck.
Not uncommon at all out here.
If I knew how to do body work I would open a shop and get on a trusted network deal with as many insurance companies as I could. Pretty much guaranteed to make a killing.
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