[Closed] Will this buff out? Write off or not.

Toyota pickup?

‘Tis but a scratch.

Many a third world civil war has been fought in trucks that are worse than that

Did the wheel trims pop off in the impact?

Warranty claim 😁😁
Just driving along!

Lump hammer and a can of wd40. Job done.

Thats fixable imo , but then i am a brewer , not a bodyshop mechanic.
As long as the chasis is still square , then its 6-7 panels, lights, paint , airbags , I reckon £7,000 - £9,000 to fix that .
What did it cost ? Write off values used to be 2/3 of current value.

When I pulled up I immediately thought of the top gear hilux legend.

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This picture may change a few minds. That wheel is a little bit closer to the arch than it once was.

Ouch! Hope the guy is ok. I’m betting write off. Looks like the door is not fitting and guessing with an impact like that on one side it is twisted.

(Not a mechanic!)

How's the tree he hit....?

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Oh, bravo, bear! BRAVO!

Bear needs tubeless gunk on the floor for the full effect. May need Duct tape as well as the CFH 'tool kit'.

tubeless gunk

We all know what's going on here. It's just implied, but we all know what's going on.

@bear - 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

If it’s a monocoque - Can you find the front subframe and see if where it’s connected to the monocoque is damaged?

Is the A pillar damaged?

Is the bodywork near the front suspension strut damaged?

If the answer to all of those is NO, then it’s likely repairable.

To me, I looks like it needs a subframe, wing, engine mount, some suspension, bonnet, lights, maybe radiator and inter cooler?

Does it turn over (not start, but turn over?)?

And airbags 🙂

And airbags

Alongside a new employee who was also fired off...

If you own it, just a headlight and a big hammer.
If it's leased or financed it's trash.
Can I have the back bumper please? We have some at work and they are very delicate after a long line of Land Rovers. Well, not as easy to panel beat back to original shape anyway and exploding bumpers.

I think if the front end of my car looked like that and the bags had gone off I'd be quite happy to be seeing it written off. I'm only looking on a mobile but there looks like a fair amount of distortion all down the driver's side and into the engine bay.

It might well be fixable (and it might depend on the construction of it) but I think I'd rather not chance it going back straight given the choice.

Some insurance is new vehicle if trashed in first 12 months. If that is the case, I'd be hoping for write off. Break point is usually repair cost 60% of new list price. So maybe not unless structure twisted.

In a previous job we rolled/flipped a 3 month old Discovery over a hedge with trailer attached. Despite needing a new body shell, they still intended to repair and return it to us. We didn't really fancy it back, as primarily a tow vehicle, it had completed 200 foot not on its wheels with 3-ton swinging off the back.

looks a bit better on a laptop as oppose a phone.

looking at it and comparing to a picture of a regular non crashed version - they all look crumpled in the middle

TBH it looks liek what ever he hit was high up and yes its crumpled the body work but the wheel looks to be in the right place ish....

with the right tools and skills that could be back on the road quite quickly ........ wether your hilux will land in a body shop with those skills or a panel swappers is another thing.

It'll fix.

I'm 50 50 on wether it'll be written off depends on the parts prices but I bet book times only about 25hrs Inc paint

Every air bag went off, therefore blowing holes in the dash, steering wheel, two seats ( literally tearing them apart) roof lining and not one I've seen before under the steering column at shin height which forces your feet back. Front wheel was snapped clean off the upper ball joint/strut but somehow still steerable as I loaded it on the truck. Radiator, air filter little relays and motors were just scattered down the road, he hit a sportage which had stopped after a bend, tried to dodge her but didn't quite make it hence the wing damage.

A little lesson for your labourer....

Keep your speed down to a level where you can see the full stopping distance on your own side of the road.

If you're not, you're only ever one fallen tree from a mortuary (other early death scenarios for the driver and others available).

If every air bag has gone off then my money is on dead truck. Which is much better than what might have happened.

It will end up being sold on Copart, and someone will put 10 videos on youtube of how they repaired it and made a profit. I'll spend several hours watching them when I should be doing something else.

Subframes? Monocoque? It’s an Hilux, ladder chassis innit.

I’d say write off based on the cost of genuine parts. Toyota commercial parts aren’t cheap.

someone will fix it though.

Hmm, well the airbags deploying mean the interior is fully trashed so if this goes anywhere near an insurer there is a good chance they would suggest writing it off. Really depends on the assessor/repairer but airbags deploying is a big tick to the "throw away and buy a new one" check box

Any repair would be to strip the panels off the front, strip the interior, check the chassis is straight (easy), and then either repair from the firewall forwards or potentially, if there's damage that you can't see on the outside, effectively fit a whole new cab. Strangely enough as its a Hilux its put together like a big meccano kit so probably a lot easier to do than on, say a transit or normal car.

Aren't airbags four figures each?

How was the Sportage? My wife wrote off a brand new one (had it two days) by stopping in the back of a stationary lorry....

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This wasn't West Yorkshire was it? There'd be no reason the vehicle would have been driving over the Dick Hudson's road between Menston and Bingley last Thursday tea time?

As a cyclist, this thread scares the frickin heebeegeebees outta me. 🙁

I bought a written off Aygo to fix up that looked pretty mild in comparison, its surprising how the parts to be replaced mount up once you start taking it apart.

Its definitely repairable but whether its cost effective is another matter.

Aren’t airbags four figures each?

Dunno but both our work Hilux's have been recalled to have the airbags replaced and Toyota have said if the airbag goes off parts of it can cause serious injury, seems to be affecting a huge amount of vehicles from what I can make out. Could be expensive for Toyota

I was very surprised at how every air bag went off, I thought the passenger ones only went off if someone was in the seat.

As for where it happened it was in Derbyshire and it's never been anywhere else.

As for where it happened it was in Derbyshire and it’s never been anywhere else.

Looking at the state of it I would guess that parts of it are in some of the neighboring counties! 😂

It will end up being sold on Copart, and someone will put 10 videos on youtube of how they repaired it and made a profit.

Copart are right next to our main site, with a second site opposite our remote storage site, so I regularly see trucks bringing in trashed vehicles - I’ll keep my eyes open for a lightly modified HiLux being offloaded with one of their humongous forktrucks!
I’m intrigued to know how the Sportage came out of it...

Sportage fared very well, drivable with no massive deflection in any any panels. Coppers and I both agreed it was a great advert for their safety.

We had a 9 moth old hilux double cab stolen with keys, daubed in pink paint (to hide our company logo) used in a ram raid on a cashpoint front and rear then dumped and doused with petrol inside the cab but fortunately/ unfortunately the petrol didn’t ignite.

Vehicle was recovered and the lease co rebuilt it and returned it to us. It’s drives fine and you wouldn’t notice it had been smashed up. It looked in a s8milar state to yours, perhaps not such a massive single 8mpact but front damage and also rear damage and the damage came in at £12k or somewhere like that.