truck frame damage after accident, what to do?

They can replace a frame rail and damaged cross members. They unhook every thing and slide it out and slide the new one in.
Probably cost too much unless the truck is new.
How much have they spent on repairs before the found the bent frame?

 

Get that truck totaled.

I lost a truck due to frame damage once. Insurance totaled the truck and sold it I got money back out of it. They did offer to fix by replacing the entire frame which would take a few months. I chose not to because historically once a frame is hit that's it. Fatal.

 

Great Lakes peterbilt quoted 7 grand out the door for one frame rail replace on a pete. 4 week turn around as of last week

 

and don't forget to get paid for your down time. when I got totaled a few years ago, had no trouble finding a lawyer willing to take the case and suing the insurance company for some money

 

Total it. I don't care what they do it will never be the same.

 

Look it is a tool

If it gets damaged

It needs to be replaced

Had a truck, brand new truck that is, which got into an accident last year, he hit another truck that decided to get involved with another accident.

The truck had 7500 miles on it, not even been on the road 8 weeks.

The insurance company repaired it, we sued the cause of the accident with the others to recoup and after another 10,000 miles, had to replace one set of steers and left tires on one axle. After another 10k, another set of tires. So it went back to the shop, they checked the frame and found it was bent subtly. They tried for a week to get it straight but it was a freak thing and they could not get it right, so the insurance wrote it off as totaled. I got a check for the replacement amount, the bank allowed me to use the money for a new truck and since the new one came in, no issues. I bought the old truck from the insurance for $35k and stripped it for replacement parts as needed for the other three.

 

watch it now, there may be some Pete drivers on here, saying it's just a tool, will get someone riled, like telling the Harley guys, it's just a bike!