Was Rear Ended Tonight Then Hours Later Clipped A Deer....

[alitterit]

While sitting in stop and go traffic on I95 the girl in the car behind me failed to stop when traffic did and bang.... trashed my bumper, tailgate, tail light, bed side, hit the exhaust and wont know for sure if anything else until tom in the day light. I do have a feeling there is more damage underneath because she did hit me pretty good. I will say this though, I am very disappointed in how well the bumper held up... Thing crinkled like an empty soda can and in the process that's what took out my bedside. I feel like if the bumper was a little stronger then there wouldn't be as much damage to my truck.

 

Her car was pretty smashed up, her Hyundai wasn't moveable due to her headlight and surrounding metal was relocated to about where her front tire was...

 

Then just a little bit ago while driving into town I clipped a buck that jumped out into the road. Does not look like there is any damage but again, wont know for sure till tom in the daylight.

 

Will post pics tom sometime..

[GPSilverado]

While sitting in stop and go traffic on I95 the girl in the car behind me failed to stop when traffic did and bang.... trashed my bumper, tailgate, tail light, bed side, hit the exhaust and wont know for sure if anything else until tom in the day light. I do have a feeling there is more damage underneath because she did hit me pretty good. I will say this though, I am very disappointed in how well the bumper held up... Thing crinkled like an empty soda can and in the process that's what took out my bedside. I feel like if the bumper was a little stronger then there wouldn't be as much damage to my truck.

 

Her car was pretty smashed up, her Hyundai wasn't moveable due to her headlight and surrounding metal was relocated to about where her front tire was...

 

Then just a little bit ago while driving into town I clipped a buck that jumped out into the road. Does not look like there is any damage but again, wont know for sure till tom in the daylight.

 

Will post pics tom sometime..

 

 

 

 

What a run of bad luck there. Hopefully there isn't much damage that you haven't already seen.

 

 

 

I understand the desire for stronger bumpers, bu thaving them fold is part of the energy absorbtion design. I would rather replace truck parts than have serious injury. I know sometimes we think it is too extreme, but the engineers know a lot more than we do about designing safe trucks.

[redjewel2ss]

that sucks...

 

things come in threes so watch out!!!!

[pm26]

I understand the desire for stronger bumpers, bu thaving them fold is part of the energy absorbtion design. I would rather replace truck parts than have serious injury. I know sometimes we think it is too extreme, but the engineers know a lot more than we do about designing safe trucks.

 

I have news for you. You can design well functional energy absorbing bumpers that do not fold in half when someone sneezes on them, and many vehicles have them. Don't be an apologist for GM cheapness.

[MikeNH]

Jeez, here we go again...

 

The benefits of the 900s over the older models and in some instances, over their newer competition are well worth dealing with weak bumpers. Sadly they're all like that now anyway.

[alitterit]

Yeah, I know things come in 3's so im not taking the motorcycle out today as planned haha... not going to press my luck that much.. I understand and agree with you that the softer bumpers absorb more of the impact thus limiting the amount of force applied to the persons in the vehicles. I guess coming from older trucks with solid steel off road bumpers and the hefty factory ones I was shocked at the amount of damage to this one. OH WELL, its all going to get fixed so not going to cry over spilled milk.

 

Took a look a little while ago at the front end of the truck where I clipped the deer and there is nothing that I can see as far as damage goes. I guess I got really lucky and bumped him with the strongest part of my truck or barely hit him and it just sounded worse then it was.

 

I snapped a few pictures on my phone a few min ago and they are uploading to my photobucket now, once that is finished I will post them up on here....

 

 

Hope everyones day is better then mine did last night!!

[BlackZ71Silverado]

WOW! Definately a bad day. Glad nobody was injured and hope you get things taken care of ASAP. Being without your truck for a long period of time is terrible.

[alitterit]

Just got back from the body shop that my ins. co. sent me to and already have the estimate done and appointment set. Im traveling to texas on the 15th for a week for work so on the 14th I am dropping my truck off to start the repairs and hopefully by the time that I return from my trip the truck should be finished.

 

They said that they are going to look into repairing the bedside vs installing a new one but being the damage that is done I have a feeling that they will end up needing to install a new bedside.

 

 

The body shop is going to order me new "Silverado" and "LT" badges, should I tell them to leave them off ad run the tailgate de-badged?? What are the opinions?

 

 

Enough of the chit-chat and on to the pictures!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Garrett Street]

WOW! Comparing damages I'd say your truck did awesome. Lol Sorry about the luck, though. Hope all is well in the future!

[alitterit]

Yeah, with the larger tires on my truck and her front end being lower due to her hitting the brakes she mostly went under the truck. Still hit me hard enough where I wasn't expecting a Hyundai to be the vehicle that hit me but something larger haha....

[RyanbabZ71]

silverado 1 - hyundai 0

 

Hopefully its as good as new soon!

[BlackZ71Silverado]

That's a lot of damage. IMO you should request a new right side bed skin, not have it repaired. Make sure you tell them you want a GM part, if not they will give you a knock off brand and it will not fit correctly. My brother had similar damage, insurance had it replaced with after market and it was terrible, he never took it home from the body shop. Shop ordered him a GM part, he paid the difference in cost from the junk one the insurance made them put on. Looks brand new now.

[wavery]

I can't even believe that you are complaining about the way that bumper held up in a collision like that. I'd sacrifice the bumper any day over having a whiplash.

 

Glad you weren't hurt.

[fatalwishes]

That's a lot of damage. IMO you should request a new right side bed skin, not have it repaired. Make sure you tell them you want a GM part, if not they will give you a knock off brand and it will not fit correctly. My brother had similar damage, insurance had it replaced with after market and it was terrible, he never took it home from the body shop. Shop ordered him a GM part, he paid the difference in cost from the junk one the insurance made them put on. Looks brand new now.

 

THAT ^^^^

 

She hit you. It's her insurance. Threaten to sue, they will settle. I'd get a new bed side out of this. You don't want it pulled, have bondo slapped on it, then get hit again back there.

[alitterit]

Waverly- You have a point and I did come to realize that a little later on after the fact. Its better the truck absorbed as much as the impact that it did vs sending it to me and my girlfriend who was with me in the vehicle. I was a little sore this am but feel 99% better now.

 

I have been thinking about talking to them more and more about just replacing the bedside vs fixing the current one that is there and I think I am going to make a trip to the shop tomm. to discuss it with them. Any time metal is bent it is fatigued and no longer has the strength that it did. While it is only the rear corner of the bed, if any little thing hits that spot then the bondo will chip and then it will be on me to get it fixed because something came in contact with it and it didn't chip on its own.

 

Thank you for the info. and for the best wishes.... I shall keep ya'll posted.

 

 

p.s. any parts that they are replacing already are factory GM parts so I don't think that getting a GM bedside will be an issue, Just getting them to agree to do a full bedside will.

Being it is her insurance and not mine, I don't see any reason that it will be as issue as it wont cost my insurance company anything.