fordranger
Sad day
Hazard of living in the Midwest. Hit a deer and I'm wondering if my Ranger is toast. It's a 2009 supercab. Wonderful truck with only 60K miles and barely any rust.
The problem I'm running into is one autobody shop already said they wouldn't take it based on how hard it would be to get parts. Another ran into some of the airbag parts they said are discontinued. I'm looking on the Ford website and see a few discontinued parts but found those discontinued OEM parts from a different auto supplier online so I'm trying to get an answer from the shop if they would purchase those. Right now they are telling me they only purchase from the Ford dealerships.
I just want to get the thing running again and can worry on paint and cosmetic issues over time. This is a great truck and I don't want to give up on it just because some airbag parts are hard to find.
I did get a couple estimates that total repairs would be in the $6K-$7K range but that's with paint and everything total. I don't know about the frame either or if that looks like it might be a problem. What do you guys think? Is this one done for?
Discussion
Take the loose pieces off and get it to a shop that has a frame rack, if the frames good, imo it's worth hunting parts yourself, you can find them I'm absolutely sure of it it just might not be easy
Parts for that truck aren’t hard to find. Secondly look down frame rail to see if it looks bent I’m going to guess they look straight
Man, if you are not DIY fixing this it's probably not worth it. As you said, professional repair will quickly cost north of 6k, you can buy a decent replacement for that money. The math on spending replacement money on a fix does not ever really check out IMO, unless it has sentimental value.
Are you in a state with inspections and stuff, or do you just want it driveable? Personally I would just get a new headlight, bumper, and grill from the scrapyard and bolt that on. You may even be able to get a steering wheel airbag and stuff depending on the junkyard's policies. In my state as long as you don't report it to insurance you could drive without the airbags indefinitely (at your own risk of course)
DIY fixing it would look like ass, but you'd have a driveable truck for a few hundred. An ugly truck still gets you where you are going though!
It was my grandfathers that I inherited. It was already a salvage title so there is only liability insurance on it, it’s going to be all out of pocket.
I would like to just get it running and if it looks like crap with the fender and bumper for awhile I can fix that down the road. If the frame is bent, I’m going to not bother with it.
I’m just annoyed that one shop wouldn’t even look at it and another stopped looking at it when they couldn’t get a part from the ford dealership.
I'm just a shadetree idiot, and its hard to judge dimensions from pictures, so take this with a large portion of salt, but I doubt your frame took a serious hit here. Start getting parts from the junkyard and bolt them on yourself :)
Your radiator core support basically looks like it is still in the right spot, fender barely bent out, hood looks pretty much straight... no way a hit that damaged those fragile components so little did any serious damage to real structural stuff, just the weak bullshit that absorbed the hit. You may have to bend the radiator support back a bit, or the stuff that the front clip components bolt to, but I doubt the frame is significantly tweaked from what I can see.
You could get the alignment checked for cheap at a tire shop? As long as the alignment is close enough or can be fixed with the adjustments it has, there is no serious problem with the frame being sliiiiightly tweaked. A visual inspection and a simple tape measure between the frame rails will also tell you a lot!