yeah i had 2 crashes in my 97 PSD, one in the snow i hit some black ice going around a turn and when i let off the throttle the back end came around because the 4WD slowed the front down faster because it had greater traction, i hit a tree head on at 25 mph, previously i had a trailer hitch reciever and a 3/4 x 5 inch solid steel D ring in place of the square reciever, it stoped the truck dead and only casulty was the bumper, i used a piece of 6 inch 3/8 inch thick C channel as a new bumper made my self. looked good and i painted it to match the truck, and no less than a week later going down the high way some old lady in a subaru outback was in the fast lane and decided that she wanted to make it into the exit lane which was going to end in about 50 feet, so she slammed on the brakes and lets just say this truck doenst stop quite as fast at a 2500 pound subaru, i tried missing her but it was to fast, i hit her with my right front and took off her entire back end, the cop that showed up was the same cop that gave me a warning for doing a burn out in my PSD in my school parking lot, and he was just cracking up at how little damage there was to my truck, i had to replace the fender, head light, turn signals, bumper to grill pannel and repainted it all for 750$. i got a new piece of 6 Inch C channel 3/8 inch thick, this time i welded them back to back to make a box so this time it will not even dent, but it just shows how little people think then they hit the gas or slam on the brakes and not think of giving the guy behind them the proper time to react,

 

well guys just got my estimate done by miller motors a ford dealer. guess how much everything will cost me.
Mitch

 

5,000 and change?

 

So whats it going to cost Mitch?

 

LET'S ALL TAKE A CRACK AT THE REPAIR COST. I'M BETTING $5,500.00 JCAB

 

keep them comming, jcab is dang close!
quess a few more and ill post it tommorow.
Mitch

 

5669.49 for it all.
Mitch

 

Wow, I bet that guy knows what it is like to be hit by a train!!! Glad everything is going well and no one was seriously hurt!!

 

OMFG!

you guys will never belive this. went to local hardware store to get some grade 8 bolts and the guys mom who hit me in the first accident REAR ENDS ME! god damnit! him and his mom gets out and he just starts laughing his *** off. god did that **** me off. and his mom was yelling at me for stopping so fast. i just said lady get back in your car right f-in now. and she did and drove off in her jetta with a really bad messed up hood and broken out grill.
nothing happend to my truck, thank got for my reciver and a 6" drop hitch iwth a ball on it.
i mean c'mon what are the fricken odds of this.

i hate women drivers and kids who drive like women.
grrrrrrrrr
Mitch

 

dude, what did the tree ever do to you? did you take it out?
Definately gotta love the safety factor with these trucks.

 

for some reason the pics arnt comming up for me. i too was amazed when i had an ice/teliphone poll experance not to long ago how well the truck held up. i say these arnt trucks, there friggin tanks

 

A few years back (quite a few now I guess...) my folks and I were driving in Dad's 92 Chevy 1/2 ton 4x4 with a 3 horse slant trailer behind us, 2-3 horses in back. Some idiot kid who had just got his license tried to beat us through an intersection and didn't make it. The weight of the trailer/horses basically turned Dad's truck into a plow- smashed into this idiot's (actually his mom's) car, crushed it to heck, and barely put a dent in the bumper of the Chevy. The ironic part was, there was a state policeman right behind the kid when he tried to outrun us What an idiot... he was running around bawling about how his mom would ground him for wrecking her car

 

here are the pics of the first wreck, i didnt have a camera with me the 2nd time bull ill take some of the little dent i just saw today in my bumper.

 

[QUOTE=79f-250custom]OMFG!

you guys will never belive this. went to local hardware store to get some grade 8 bolts and the guys mom who hit me in the first accident REAR ENDS ME! god damnit! him and his mom gets out and he just starts laughing his *** off. god did that **** me off. and his mom was yelling at me for stopping so fast. i just said lady get back in your car right f-in now. and she did and drove off in her jetta with a really bad messed up hood and broken out grill.
nothing happend to my truck, thank got for my reciver and a 6" drop hitch iwth a ball on it.
i mean c'mon what are the fricken odds of this.

i hate women drivers and kids who drive like women.
grrrrrrrrr
Mitch[/QUOTE/

Come on Mitch, give mom a break, She was probably taking her idiot son to buy him some new skivvies and the smell of him was making her eyes water.

Rog

 

lol she was out seeking revenge on him... but she must of thought her little toy would do something to the tank... lol