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#11
12-29-2011, 07:46 AM
Champion
man thats sucks! i know its a pretty long drive, but there is a guy up in houlton, me that has literally thousands of 2nd gen parts, and hes really cheap too.
you could buy the truck back, and with whatever you have left from the insurance co. you could fix your truck on the cheap side if you know how to do the stuff yourself.
you could buy the truck back, and with whatever you have left from the insurance co. you could fix your truck on the cheap side if you know how to do the stuff yourself.
#12
12-29-2011, 09:23 AM
Champion
here is a list of the damaged parts, right front tire, rim, fender, cracked the ball joint, bent the inner and outer tie rods(left and right), bent the steering damper, bent the track bar, bent the trailing arm, cracked the steering gearbox, bent the sway bar, cracked the radiator, broken grill, cracked dashboard, broke the axle in the front, they did not tell me why the left rear tire was locked up. total distance the truck slid on the pavement was about 100 feet, then about 60 feet befor it hit the pine tree and other small trees.Truck was facing back the way I was going. I would have thought it would have been cheeper for them to fix it insted of paying it off (minus my deductable) but I guess im not in debt anymore for 3 years at a buy here pay here place. Its a sad day when you dont have a car/truck long enough to even use up all the gas from filling it up once, think I drove it 100 miles.
I would have thought You would have to have been going pretty good when it happened to cause such a skid? I could be wrong but I really dont see how 35mph could cause you to skid 160ft...especially 60 ft off road into the woods and still hit with such force? these truck dont even move that well with the brakes off
Consider yourself one lucky guy...
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12-29-2011, 10:56 AM
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the road i was driving on had not been plowed for 2 days, under all the snow and frozen slush was black ice 0 deg that night up here. my truck had one of the progressive snapshot devices in it they can record mph and 35 was the fastest i was going. Sadly no money left over from the pay out, becous of my deductable ($1,000) i still owe the buy here pay here place $700. and the loan/lease pay off protection I also added on wont be counted (kinda bs i think) I have had cars,suv slid befor on ice but as you said never that far but it just slid and kept going, only thing I could think of at the time was I hope that I dont hit that big pine tree head on, I wear glasses and did not want the air bag to go off. 2 of the pics (bad ones) are in the gallery under gold 01. I work at walmart and it is making me wonder if that dodge hated the sight of the store and wanted to become a tree hugger insted.
Whoever gets that truck should be happy when I got it they told me that transmission had be rebuild 500 miles ago.
Whoever gets that truck should be happy when I got it they told me that transmission had be rebuild 500 miles ago.