Make sure you take it to a frame shop not just a local mechanic if you decide to have it inspected although a local mechanic may be able to tell most of the stuff. What happend to make this guy go into a ditch? I wouldn't be suprised if he has abused it offroad and happend to start rolling over. Lift kits really are hard on a truck and if the truck isn't exactly right they will be very hard on it and I doubt you will ever get the alignment correct and if you don't and you go through tires every year is it worth it? Have you priced mud tires? I have a friend who's S-10 went into the a ditch well kind of jumped over it and slammed into a fence post while still going in the ditch and the front looks a little worse than that but not too much and his frame was all bent and twisted up and basically they totalled his truck that I don't think was even a year old. Plus when the roof has problems it can mess up the whole structure of the truck. I would keep looking as I had a friend selling a 97 F-150 Lariat for $8500 which is a little more than that but his didn't have a scratch on it although it didn't have a lift but was in perfect shape I would go for something like that and then put a lift on it. If the lift wasn't installed properly most likely it has worn out other parts also and you will have to replace it all anyway. Are you a good mechanic? If not I wouldn't mess with this truck even If I got it for $1k and I don't know that I would mess with a lifted truck as stuff wears out twice as fast and especially one that has been crashed like this. I am a fan of lifted up trucks infact I have one but I will be the first to admit it wears stuff out twice as fast and while they look cool they require more work.

 

Just wondering also what size tires are those? I can't tell if it just has big tires that fill up the gap or if it isn't that high. Doesn't really look that high to me. Also who makes the lifts? I would make sure it is a quality brand like Fabtech, Rancho, or Skyjacker or a quality brand like that.

 

It sounds to me like you really want this truck though and don't really believe the rest of us but I suspect you will regret it if you get it but it may not be as bad as it looks it just looks and sounds really bad.

 

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the reason i still want it is that it didnt look all that bad when i was there. the engine started fine, ran fine, but you could tell something was wrong with the allignment. if theres any chance that the frame is bent(if we get it inspected) im not buying it. same with other major parts.

 

That's too much to pay for a salvage truck with that much damage anyway. I've seen similar trucks to what you described, without the lift and tires, for for as low as $2k. You're looking at a good repair bill from those pics, the damage is 'light' by most standards, it just happens to be in a part of the cab that really shouldn't be straightened out, the whole structure should be replaced.

And honestly it looks like he's made some minor repairs to cover up how bad it was, after all, how many rolled trucks do you see with the passenger mirror still in tact? I'm willing to bet it pulls to the right due to the wreck and not something minor/unrelated as he's drumming it up to be. Notice on the bottom corner of the passenger fender, looks like a black mark there where the tire could have possibly hit, hard to say just from a pic and not seeing it in person. But if it did draw back enough to hit the fender, that's definitly not good.

 

Just curious what you decided to do?

 

i didnt get it.