Jump to content

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

alitterit

Recommended Posts

alitterit Enthusiast

alitterit

Posted
Posted

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 Enthusiast

GPSilverado

Posted
Posted
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.

pm26 Senior Enthusiast

pm26

Posted
Posted
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 Senior Enthusiast

MikeNH

Posted
Posted

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 Enthusiast

alitterit

Posted
  • Author
Posted

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!!

alitterit Enthusiast

alitterit

Posted
  • Author
Posted

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!!

 

 

 

th_2011-11-04115907.jpg

 

 

th_2011-11-04115920.jpg

 

th_2011-11-03174741.jpg

alitterit Enthusiast

alitterit

Posted
  • Author
Posted

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 Senior Enthusiast

RyanbabZ71

Posted
Posted

silverado 1 - hyundai 0

 

Hopefully its as good as new soon!

BlackZ71Silverado Senior Enthusiast

BlackZ71Silverado

Posted
Posted

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 Enthusiast

wavery

Posted
Posted

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 Enthusiast

fatalwishes

Posted
Posted
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 Enthusiast

alitterit

Posted
  • Author
Posted

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.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Latest Articles

  • Posts

    • bluev8
      Intermittent no-code issues on 2022.5+ V8 trucks — what did the shop fail to capture?

      By bluev8 · Posted

      That makes sense, and I think you are describing the real product problem. Capturing data is the easy part. If the owner or technician has to manually dig through five minutes of millisecond-level logs, the product has already failed. The device would be at the ECM harness, not at the OBD port, so I agree that data retrieval and event marking need to be thought through carefully. The way I am thinking about the architecture is: The recorder itself should not depend on a phone, app, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or cloud connection to capture the event. It should always keep a local rolling buffer and lock the event locally. A button, phone app, or small cabin device would only act as an event marker. If the driver feels a stumble and presses the button 10–30 seconds later, the pre-buffer has to already contain the useful data. For data retrieval, the practical options would be a sealed service USB lead, Wi-Fi download, or a phone/cabin companion device. I would not expect the owner to remove the ECM-side module or work with raw files directly. The cloud or AI side would be for interpretation, not for capturing the event. The truck may have no connection when the issue happens, so the evidence has to be saved locally first. After that, cloud processing could help decode the data, compare it against baselines, and generate a readable report. For the first version, I would keep the automatic triggers conservative and objective: driver event marker bus-off error passive voltage drop / brownout device reset FIFO or queue overflow a normally periodic message disappearing side-to-side communication mismatch, if the topology supports that For “learning normal,” I agree with your point, but I would not want to overclaim it as automatic root-cause diagnosis at first. A realistic first step would be learned baseline comparison for that specific vehicle and operating condition. For example, a value would only be compared against similar conditions: RPM range load / MAP throttle position gear / vehicle speed coolant and oil temperature battery voltage AFM/DFM state, if decoded and validated Then the report could flag things like: this periodic message disappeared compared with its normal timing this value deviated from this vehicle’s normal range under similar conditions the same abnormal pattern repeated after the same type of event the anomaly occurred together with voltage, oil-pressure, misfire, or communication changes But I would still call that “abnormal pattern detected,” not “replace this part,” unless there is enough validated repair data behind it. So the intended product would not be “here is a huge log.” It would need to be an event package: what triggered the capture how much pre/post data was preserved what changed before and after the event whether the device itself reset, overflowed, or saw a bus error selected graphs around the event raw data only as supporting evidence From your perspective, what would make this kind of report useful instead of just another datalog? For example: What are the top 5 parameters or events you would want highlighted first? Would you trust a learned baseline for that specific vehicle, or would you prefer fixed thresholds? How much false-positive flagging would be acceptable before you stopped looking at the reports? What would a one-page report need to show for an independent shop to take it seriously? For misfire, AFM/DFM, oil pressure, or U-code complaints, what would you want the tool to flag automatically?
    • scotthvac.net
      2022-24 halogen - led grille swap

      By scotthvac.net · Posted

      2024 Silverado 2500 HD LTZ grille no camera Parts list   84603331 84913656 84913657 84913654 84913655 84911567 84911568 85646092 85646093 85797921 85797922   11570637  x10-15   grille/bumper bolts 11546500  x10      grille clips 11571006  x10      push/retainer clips 11546454  x6       nut retainers 11611609  x6       M5 bolts 11610700  x6       molding/trim retainers
    • davester
      Replacement Radiator

      By davester · Posted

      And use RA's 5% discount code if you buy from them.  google for the code, one is always available.
    • davester
      Turning radius

      By davester · Posted

      Just don't turn the steering wheel as much?
    • Snowcamo
      Replacement Radiator

      By Snowcamo · Posted

      Rockauto bud. I pass local stores for parts.   Findya something online. 

  • GM-Trucks.com Clubs

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...