2019 Roush 9k miles, bent my frame need advice

Sucks that you wrecked your raptor. Had my 2013 for five days before someone run into mine. Fortunately mine was very minor. Still, I was angry. Brand new truck. Anyway, I worked in New car dealerships for a little over 25 years as a mechanic and did quite a few frame replacements. IMHO I think that would be an acceptable repair if done by a reputable shop. I know in some cases people have negotiated with their insurance company to get a completely new vehicle when it was so new with such major damage . I wouldn't accept repairing the existing frame in any way. Completely new frame would bring it back to as close to new as possible,IMHO.

I don't plan to accept anything less than a frame, hoping for a new truck, hell, I can get the exact same truck from the same dealership, they have a couple, bet I could get a better deal too. nothing from ins in days tho.

for the record, if you did what I did in the raptor in a Subaru, i think it would fold it in half, if you could do it at all or get to where I was.

wile this is unfortunate, the truck impresses me.

Thanks guys

jamanrr said:

do not understand how most on here feel like it is the be all end all of off road created vehicles.

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you’re on a --Raptor-- forum, full of Raptor owners and notorious Ford troll sasquatch77 and her 3(?) alias user accounts. Anyway, being on an auto enthusiast forum and not understanding the loyalty to that vehicle is a fundamental misunderstanding of what internet forums are for and why people come here.


Maybe the internet isn’t for you?


Perhaps allow for the possibility that the enthusiasm you have for the s00b, others have for the Raptor and probably in a lot higher numbers on FRF.

Droid said:

That said, I'd like to see a video of any stock-ish Subaru fording up to its windows. When you go that deep, you have to wait for the vehicle to flood before you'll have any traction (if it's not flooded, it's floating).

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well... I took my ’97 SVT Mustang up north on vacation many moons back, was going to meet up with a Corral inmate in NJ to pick up some parts. Only... there was this hurricane working its way up the east coast. We made it from MA down to CT and the rain got worse. by the time I neared Hackensack, which prior to that day, I had thought was a name made up in the Superman movie, travel was virtually halted. We needed place to hole up and found a Holiday Inn, only it was on the other side of rt. 9 and no left turns in NJ, you have to take the mug handle. Well, I did and ended up in water over the windows, over the hood, lights dimmed, motor bogging, disapproving scowl on wife’s face - aka “the look”. It was maybe 5 seconds, but was not expected. She never gave me a hint of trouble, ( The Mustang, not the wife ) and I’m sure we were damn lucky not to ingest a cr@pload of water.

So it’s not out of the realm of possibility to wade a car into holy crap I didn’t think it was that deep water and be ok. It’s also possible get beached, swept away, stalled and a host of other problems.

I am not taking the bait on that one, Hope it works out for the OP.

I'd fix it and drive it

Yeah to reinstall everything and do all the work would suck, gonna have to keep it forever with frame damage on the carfux

Just heard from the adjuster, guess I have to get a lawyer, they want to hack the frame up and weld on some new shit, eff that.

told him fine for a Focus, but this is a Baja truck that gets treated as such, I don't trust that there is not more unseen damage and that the "welding" would be done right.

Basically I was willing to accept a frame, but I wont do a hack up job, dont care if ford sell the parts or not.

I wouldn’t go for that shit either. Maybe on a Subaru...

BDF said:

Just heard from the adjuster, guess I have to get a lawyer, they want to hack the frame up and weld on some new shit, eff that.

told him fine for a Focus, but this is a Baja truck that gets treated as such, I don't trust that there is not more unseen damage and that the "welding" would be done right.

Basically I was willing to accept a frame, but I wont do a hack up job, dont care if ford sell the parts or not.

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A unibody vehicle would have been totalled they never would line back up again. Hate to say it man but you have basically two choices, first let them fix it then get trade in offers once repaired for a new one. Second, let the truck go back to the bank.

Don't ask me how I know this. Good luck with it.

In the end, you are the one that wrecked it, your insurance company is paying to fix it. It could be worse.
I bet a good shop can make it so you will soon forget it ever happened. Well, until you need to trade it in. But, that's the price you pay to play sometimes.