insurance trying to screw meeeeeee

johngg wrote:
Here's your answer. I just talked to The body shop the damage to the rear bumper
Is $1,000. The outside skin would have to be replaced that's 26'x9.
The rear wall would also have to be re skinned. That's a whole lotto work.
That's many $1,000.s the sheet metal is kinked, therefore cannot be straightened
This thing is worth 2,500 at the most.

A few things;

First, that looks to be in great shape. It reminds me of our first one - we had a 1980 Itasca, we loved it. I think you have a nice little RV there.

Second, reskinning one of those is actually pretty easy. The aluminum siding won't be cheap but it's a fairly easy job to do, and goes a lot faster than you'd think. I did a complete TT Rebuild, the siding was the easiest part.

Third, you are correct, you couldn't fully straighten the dented pieces, but I'm thinking I could have them back to 80-85%, maybe better, in about 4 hours. You'll be needed a new corner trim piece for sure, they're not too hard to come up with. In the TT rebuild above I made mine out of a $20.00 aluminum angle I bought at Lowes. Including the self etching primer and paint I had under $100 in 4 four corners.

If you lived closer I'd give you $2500 for it right the way it sits. I think $2500 is a decent value on that and from what I can see in the pictures provided the damage looks pretty workable. No it won't be back to 100%, but it will be darn close. And as mentioned before, it looks to be in darn nice shape.