[QUOTE=sporta;3603187]Well, crap. Saturday the 15th, the wife and I were heading to lunch when this ID10T woman driver (no, not shaming all women drivers) pulled out of the grocery store parking lot and T-Boned us. Thankfully, we were not seriously injured...the impact was on the passenger side (where my wife was riding) and she hit us HARD.

Right after the accident

Of course the door was jammed HARD. The FD had to use an oversized crowbar to get my wife out of the car...they threatened to use the jaws of life to cut the door open...thankfully the rear door opened and they were able to pry the front door open.

Got home after getting checked out at the hospital...luckily just battered and bruised...but the damage looks pretty bad...





Of course the person's insurance is trying to jack us around....instead of sending an adjuster, they tried to schedule Copart to just come get it and tow it away...After all the hard work I've done on her that was totally not acceptable. Long story short they will be scheduling someone to come out and look at it. The irony is if I had the body working skills, I have the spare 2000 Durango carcass that could be used to donate parts....the one body shop I called said it was almost impossible to get parts for a Durango let alone a 2001 model...and they would not use my doner...that sucks...
All positive vibes that ya'all can send would be appreciated.

Don't believe what that one shop is saying, when a body shop tells you something like that and refuses to use your donor vehicle after telling you parts are hard to find, that's their way of saying they're too lazy to do it or just plain don't have the know how. Anything's fixable, just gotta find the right shop for the job.....Call some other shops or even a hotrod or customs shop, like someone that restores classics or does custom builds even, those guys aren't afraid to tackle something like that

 

If you want to you can get new or used doors from a junkyard or ebay and hack out the pillar in the middle weld a new one it i would take out the running board and inspect them to see if they are fine or not also maybe look at the fender and i would check the suspension and the alignment to make sure they are fine of course you will have to paint it if you want it to match i think all durangos form 1998 to 2003 have them same body panels and i suprised that badging is still on there from a t bone

 

Just seeing this. Glad you and your wife are okay, Sporta. IMHO, that is not worth fixing. Think you'd spend too much time/money trying to get things to seal properly. A vehicle so old and of low value, I just wouldn't embark on that journey.