Hit a deer can it be fixed?

[daves87rs]

Forget the body part- that engine and trans life just got way shorter thanks to the impact.

even if you can fix it, it will have other major issues caused by the crash.

It’s junk ready for the scrapyard .


Pick up a nice cheap Toyota and call it a day

 

[ls1mike]

Here is @ls1mike thread on his prior truck:

Thread 'My poor truck'

Sep 1, 2023

Someone pulled out in front of me, no insurance no registration wrong title...truck was paid for with 2017 with 47,000 miles. Picked up in 19 for 36500 with 27,000 miles. I can't replace it for that. 100 miles from, trailer was at the campsite. Son brought his 03 Duramax to tow me home Monday. I'm bummed However everyone is ok.

• ls1mike
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Not to steal the thread...but this truck ended up in...Mexico. I get an OnStar email about it once in a blue moon. It has over 120,000 miles on it now. I hope it is living it's best life and not doing anything illegal...lol

 

[GON]

Not to steal the thread...but this truck ended up in...Mexico. I get an OnStar email about it once in a blue moon. It has over 120,000 miles on it now. I hope it is living it's best life and not doing anything illegal...lol

99.9 percent likely the truck went to Mexico without a title. Washington State only provides /allows a bill of sale for salvage vehicles, and winning the lotto is easier than getting a salvage bill of sale converted into a rebuilt title in Washington State.

Of note, I successfully converted two Washington State salvage bill of sales into Washington State rebuilt titles, unbelievable complex, challenging and very time consuming process.

 

[Number_35]

I loved that truck. I still miss it.

That's a shame - it looks like beauty.

 

[oil pan 4]

The "recall" was just a software update, no?

The number 3 piston likes to suddenly stop at high rpm...

 

[oil pan 4]

Here is @ls1mike thread on his prior truck:

Thread 'My poor truck'

Sep 1, 2023

Someone pulled out in front of me, no insurance no registration wrong title...truck was paid for with 2017 with 47,000 miles. Picked up in 19 for 36500 with 27,000 miles. I can't replace it for that. 100 miles from, trailer was at the campsite. Son brought his 03 Duramax to tow me home Monday. I'm bummed However everyone is ok.

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Since we can't afford another deer hit my wife let me get this. She still hasn't figured out it can be "made in USA steel" and only costs $800. Some assembly required lol.

Got the off road upgrade, makes the importantiest part of the bumper a quarter inch thick and upgraded from 1.5 inch tube to 2 inch. No light bar or square light cut outs.

 

[oil pan 4]

Here is @ls1mike thread on his prior truck:

Thread 'My poor truck'

Sep 1, 2023

Someone pulled out in front of me, no insurance no registration wrong title...truck was paid for with 2017 with 47,000 miles. Picked up in 19 for 36500 with 27,000 miles. I can't replace it for that. 100 miles from, trailer was at the campsite. Son brought his 03 Duramax to tow me home Monday. I'm bummed However everyone is ok.

• ls1mike
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Since we can't afford another deer hit my wife let me get this. She still hasn't figured out it can be "made in USA steel" and only costs $800. Some assembly required lol.
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Got the off road upgrade, makes the importantiest part of the bumper a quarter inch thick and upgraded from 1.5 inch tube to 2 inch. No light bar or square light cut outs, no winch mount.
It's for our pick-up truck, not the car, although....

 

[JHZR2]

I think it would depend upon what happened to the wheel/shock tower/etc.

Can and should are two different things.

I agree with others that the litany of parts is going to be quite the job in itself. So you’ll need to be ready for a lot of parts work and/or a lot of junkyard work.

That said, if suspension and engine attached parts are all functional, you may have a chance. But no guarantees what the car will be like after.

At this point any little bump practically totals a car because the cost of proper work is so high. Folks are better off to self insure and just carry liability at some point. Remember they’ll lowball on value.

 

[oil pan 4]

Option A. $14,200 to buy back the car.
Option B. $10,500 to keep the car.
USAA.
Took option B. Sawsall go brrrrrrr and bolt cutters go nom, nom nom, when I get home.

 

[oil pan 4]

I think it would depend upon what happened to the wheel/shock tower/etc.

Can and should are two different things.

I agree with others that the litany of parts is going to be quite the job in itself. So you’ll need to be ready for a lot of parts work and/or a lot of junkyard work.

That said, if suspension and engine attached parts are all functional, you may have a chance. But no guarantees what the car will be like after.

At this point any little bump practically totals a car because the cost of proper work is so high. Folks are better off to self insure and just carry liability at some point. Remember they’ll lowball on value.

Wheel and shock tower are fine. There's a not very sturdy looking hybrid coolant pump mounted between the exploded headlight and the strut tower. It's where you'd think the 12v battery would be. This coolant pump appears to be untouched.

 

[dubber09]

"Hit a deer can it be fixed?" - I'm not sure, where is the pic of the deer?

 

[oil pan 4]

The payout, $10,500.
Spent so far:
Radiator $90
Inverter coolant pump $150
A/C condenser $90
Windshield washer fluid tank $44
I got the windshield washer tank because I might have to drive 200 miles before I find one with a useable from end and would like to be able to wash the bugs off.
I was going to get the condenser off a junk yard car but found it was hybrid specific and there's no guarantee the junk yard will have a hybrid. It looks like the regular hybrid and plug in hybrid share some front end parts like engine radiator, A/C condenser and inverter coolant radiator. The plug ins are super rare and the regular hybrids are maybe 10% of what's listed on copart.
I was just going to order the radiator and inverter coolant pump to make the car drive able outside of the yard, go to Lubbock and/or Amarillo Texas to junk yards that have Hyundai sonatas.
Turns out body shops avoid hybrids and electric cars with sus damage to the inverter system, even a simple coolant leak, like it's radio active waste.
When I took the picture of the dash to send to USAA a warning popped up saying "inverter coolant low" so I know that saw it.

"Hit a deer can it be fixed?" - I'm not sure, where is the pic of the deer?

I was looking forward to finishing the deer off with my box cutter but it was already very dead before I could get to it.

 

[oil pan 4]

Ordered a radiator support for $250.
Special hybrid specific radiator fan with shroud for $200.
So far so good and still under a thousand.
I don't want to try and work around a hot radiator trying to dig out the
Radiator support and not blow the A/C charge. Probably won't have a tree to support the radiators and condenser at the junk yard.

 

[oil pan 4]

Get an itemized quote from a body shop and look for parts yourself . There more damage than you think there.

I got it all striped down. Virtually no frame/unibody damage. Bumping into a fixed object at 3kph would have moved things around more.

 

[oil pan 4]

It's going. Might be driving it today or tomorrow.

I'm looking at making it better than before the deer splat for under $2000.
The passenger side mirror and windshield vent cover were cracked, the passenger side front fender, hood and trunk lid were dented, all from hail storms.
Then keep the remaining $8,500 for my labor.

 

[oil pan 4]

Unless you have a body shop, all the correct tools and software for programming sensors this is not a diy. The right headlight alone if an led headlight is $400-800 if not more. If the radiator brackets and supports are bent/ broken that's alot of work. I see alot of bent/broken plastic parts plus the hood. The airbags should have deployed with the hood pushed back that far.

The radiator support was destroyed, but sandwichs between the uniframe and the metal bumper. It's an easy to replace part.
A new radiator support was $250 shipped and fits the hybrid radiators and condenser perfectly, lines up on the passenger side like nothing happened.

 

[jkasch]

I’d say if it goes down the road straight or does so with an alignment, you win.

 

[oil pan 4]

I’d say if it goes down the road straight or does so with an alignment, you win.

We're gonna test that.
It probably needed an alignment before the deer.

 

[Silverado12]

I think it would be easier getting a donor car with a bad motor and swapping your motor/trans.

 

[oil pan 4]

I think it would be easier getting a donor car with a bad motor and swapping your motor/trans.

Nope that would be way harder with all the hybrid stuff. I've got all the major systems that were damaged repaired.
It's all cosmetic damage and easy to replace stuff like radiator, condenser, radiator fan, radiator support, body panels.