insurance trying to screw meeeeeee

Bruce Brown wrote:

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.

johngg wrote:
I'm just going to take what they give me and be happy.
But I don't think I'll get much. The whole thing is just a mess.
The body shop quote was $1,000 for the bumper alone. 695 to seal
The rear corner. I think they put it so high because they know it's
Totaled. According to them, if the insurance totals it they won't
Get paid. So they just don't want to do it. I can understand that.

Hard to tell which statement is real expression of situation.

Total reskin.......turns into a $695 repair

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.