4th Gen tacoma body/paint repair

Chang805

Chang805

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I supposedly bumped someone’s 4th gen Tacoma couple weeks ago. Never felt it or even know how it’s possible. But scratches on both cars line up. Thought it would be better to not go through insurance but maybe that wasn’t the best choice.
The guy is a total ****** and has only gotten quotes from big name brand places, Caliber Collision etc. They are between $2500-3500. I am not paying that for what looks like 5 minutes of work with touch up paint. He is convinced the bumper needs to come off to remove the fender, which requires the cruise control/collision sensor to be removed and recalibrated.
Looking at my sister’s 4g I don’t think either need to be touched, and if the sensor is removed why would it need to be recalibrated if everything is put back together the same way. Anyway, how much work is involved in this repair on these new trucks?
 

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I side swiped a Ford truck and tore off the $1500 side view mirror. After talking to my insurance, since I had a good driving record, the small increase to my monthly rate for a couple of years was less than me directly paying to fix it. So you might want to talk to your insurance.
 
If I wasn't ******ed, do you think i would be asking this question i the first place? I dont buy new cars because of stuff like this. I was wondering if anyone has had experience taking these trucks apart and if the stated parts actually need to be removed.
 
Im happy to hear you have no problem paying another person to do whatever they want to your car.
I don’t believe these parts need to be removed, and we do not need to be charged for that labor. I asked this forum, which is the most likely to have taken apart one of these trucks all ready and have experience with the procedure.
Clearly you don’t, and I think it’s rather interesting you continue to comment.
 
In order to do the repair correctly, the front bumper and headlight need to be removed. With the location of the damage and proximity to the door, and the color, will require a blend on the door for color match. If the sensor is attached to the bumper cover, it will need removed as well. If the Toyota position statement is to calibrate the adaptive cruise module when it is removed (especially on a new truck) then that would be required. I can't see the actual damage in the photos, so not sure if 4 hours is high or not. But everything else looks in line with how I would bid it as well.
 
"Hey man, I was hoping this would come in around a grand and I could just give you the cash, and you could fix it, or put it in your vacation fund, I don't really care, but that's about tapping me out, if you're going to take it to that shop to have it fixed, we'll need to go through my insurance, sorry about the inconvenience "








*that's how mine played out when a gf backed my truck into a high school kids Honda, dad got a $900 estimate on a $2k car, I told him what I could come up with 2 weeks before Christmas and stopped talking, let him make the next move, which was putting 250 in his kids college fund and living with the scratch
 
I do these all day long. (Lexus)
The only time you need to calibrate the parking sensor is if you replace it.
We get around many Toyota calibration issues, cameras etc..., by removing bumpers, mirrors, and then plugging them back in before turning the car on.
This looks like a scam. I see so many people saying their car got hit at Costco..., and it's house paint.
That does not look like a car hit it, it's probably the trim to their garage. Large flat perpendicular vertical area. A car didn't do this.

I only blend if necessary. Pretty easy to keep that out of the door. I'd pull the headlight, and back off the front bumper.
My quote would be $1464.
And my rate is high.

But, that damage is a perpendicular flat surface, not a car.
 
Carbon said:
I do these all day long. (Lexus)
The only time you need to calibrate the parking sensor is if you replace it.
We get around many Toyota calibration issues, cameras etc..., by removing bumpers, mirrors, and then plugging them back in before turning the car on.
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He's not talking about a parking sensor, he's talking about the radar for accident avoidance and adaptive cruise.

Your method doesn't "Get around" anything, if you remove those components you need to calibrate them, period. Your shop should invest in some training before incurring the liability of ****ing with ADAS since they clearly don't understand any of it.
 
Projectjunkie said:
"Hey man, I was hoping this would come in around a grand and I could just give you the cash, and you could fix it, or put it in your vacation fund, I don't really care, but that's about tapping me out, if you're going to take it to that shop to have it fixed, we'll need to go through my insurance, sorry about the inconvenience "








*that's how mine played out when a gf backed my truck into a high school kids Honda, dad got a $900 estimate on a $2k car, I told him what I could come up with 2 weeks before Christmas and stopped talking, let him make the next move, which was putting 250 in his kids college fund and living with the scratch
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Yep, I'm with this route first. Apologize for being a bad parker, offer a full car professional interior exterior detail ~$600.

End of the day it's what every he wants to do. Personally, if it was my truck, I wouldn't want them stripping the whole front end down when that looks like it will buff out.

I got caught in a 4 car pile-up in the lane next to me, a car jumped over and cut off the Subaru in front of me, they stopped on a dime, and I hit the Subaru at about 7mph in my work truck. Rainy weather on hwy 17. I was doing 40 in a 55. I was in my 23' F-150. The Subaru didn't even look like I hit it, the F-150 had over $15K damage. Bumper, Lights, both Fenders, Hood, Grill, and all the support brackets. Auto repair is crazy expensive.
 
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