Hi, I'm wondering if you guys can help me. My husband loves his truck it's a 98 F150 and today he wrecked it rear ended some guy and insurance wont cover it. i want to get it fixed for him for his B-day which is coming up next month. He said all it needs is a bumper head lights and hood and of course a paint job. I want it to be a suprise and i dont want to get ripped off andd i dont know anything about cars so can someone tell me how much it would cost to get it fixed or a general price range? Please?

 

Hi and welcome to FTE, sorry to hear what happened ,
is it possible for you to post serveral pics of it? You can use the gallery in your user cp to upload them too, it would a big help for us to help you if we can...

 

yup i sure will first thing in the morning as soon as its day light THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

 

your welcome and be sure to get one or two with the hood open of the radiatior area.

 

I can get the pictures to upload i think the cam is messed up. The hood wont open its jammed shut but i had a couple guys come out and look and it today and they are saying between 6 and 9k that sounds kinds high considering he paid 11 for it 2 years ago

 

That's about right.. If the hood is jammed shut, then it's probably going to need an ew core support, radaitor, AC condensor, hood, fenders, light housings, and paint. Then there will eb labor on top of that.

 

This is probably a bit worse than your husband's truck, but this cost about 9k
to fix. Luckly, the other guy's insurance paid for it because he was at fault.


Did the airbags deploy? If so, thats a major part of the cost.

 

May be best to sell for salvage and get $5K or so for it and get him a new one. He'd like that too Im sure...

 

I tried to see the picture but it did not load right, can you try again?

 

TRITON 2002...Ummmm is that blood in the center,front edge of the hood? Just how was it his fault? Did you get him on the sidewalk? hehe.

 

No that's not blood, it's good old Ford red, circa late 1980's
Hit another f150 that failed to yeild the right of way
No one was hurt, just a couple of F150's