Cab damage/rear door damage/air bags?? May 6-7k is a little low??

 

I'd guess airbags alone are gonna run $2k'ish...

 

6-7k is way too low. It cost me about 5k just to replace/paint the tailgate and replace the rear bumper on my 95 Ford about a year ago:

 

You are crazy saying $6 - $7K. The two tires and wheels that were destroyed will cost $2K alone. Airbags are crazy expensive. The entire bed assembly, tailgate, rear bumper, passenger rear door, etc. need to be replaced. The corner of the cab has to be cut off and replaced. Then you get into the drivetrain issues (and this is where I think he will get into the dollar range of totalling the truck) - definitely rear axle assembly, and if it jacked up the driveshaft it could have jacket the transmission too. At this point we haven't even discussed the frame problems yet. I know when you have a direct hit from the rear or to the front they can pull the ends back out but I wouldn't think you could straighten a frame where half of it took a direct hit from the side.

Now...I have heard of frames being replaced in situations like this and maybe that will happen. The big unknown (in my opinion) is the drivetrain issues.

For comparison, last year this was $5,600 in damage plus an additional $750 that the insurance company paid for a rental car. No airbags deployed, no frame issues (car doesn't have a frame, but they didn't have to do any pulling on the body), no tires / wheels destoyed, etc. Just a clean front end hit.

 

From my experience if you go to wherever your truck is and ask them to advise it totaled they will. I would never want a truck back that has had that much damage. It will never be the same.

 

Other driver T-boned your F150, not your fault at all. You might want to get the other drivers cell phone records to see if it was connected at that moment. The other vehicle might have a black box recorder to check the pre-crash speed.

Looks like a salvage title to me. That damage to the back corner of the cab looks structural. And, like somebody said, the output shaft could be bent.

 

Sorry, if he pulled a left turn infront of any traffic, so it will be hard to deny fault and the original poster stated as much. Aa a driver it is your responsibility to drive in a safe and prudent manner. Part of that is deciding if you can 'clear' the lane before oncoming traffic arrives when turning left. If the other car is speeding or not would have little impact (unless the driver was going stupid fast). You still have to guage the other car's speed and make that determination if you can make it or not.

If he was otherwise engaged with a cell phone or texting will have little change to the fault determination for the same reason. Bottom line, the truck did not have enough time to clear the lane during the turn and was hit.

IMO, the only thing that would change the fault was if that car ran the light.

 

Whatttttt?
$5,000 american dollars for a new painted tailgate and rear bumper on a 95 ford f150 !?

 

how in the world are you in a position to make the call whos fault it was?
thats usually something you hear people say about getting rear-ended, not t-boned
as he already said, he was waiting to turn at a green light, and instead of waiting for the oncoming BMW to pass, he got inpatient and tried to make his turn, and got t-boned. how is it not as easily his fault for trying to turn with oncoming traffic coming at him ?
i dont see how the BMWs speed has any bearing on someone pulling out in front of oncoming traffic to make a left turn on an unprotected green.
cell phone records.. really?
jesus, no wonder all the courts are constantly 2 years behind

 

This.

Glad everyone is okay.