My air bags deployed. I hit a tree right dead center in the front doing about 30. The thing that sucks is that I didnt need them to deploy. Didnt even touch the airbag except my right arm getting flunged off the wheel. Hey Low2000, can I send you some pics so I can see what the price im looking at to fix it? Sry about the truck slow. I know exactly how you feel.

 

Yeah man it sucks, but i was going about 50 when the nose of my truck smacked a gaurd rail ( the concrete kind) and my airbags didnt go off???

 

it will buff out

 

If they do total it, you want to drive my truck too? lol.

 

Sure ill drive your truck but it wont be the same when i get done with it

 

I got hit HARD in my '02 Avalanche. I was just about stopped, when the guy behind me lost his brakes in his 88 GMC RCLB coming down from a 55mph road. He hit me GOOD, pushed me through the trunk of a SHO in front of me, and pushed the SHO into a Neon. The truck and the SHO were not driveable. Mine was.

My frame was TWEAKED. I had a shank in the reciever, which probably contributed to a lot of it. My bumper was pointing down at the ground between a 45 and like, 60 degree angle. The bumper and trailer hitch brackets were great looking - it was the frame rails that were kinked in and buckled under each other. It looked bad.

Insurance companies here in MA will put a frame under a vehicle before they total it. The guys at the body shop had a Durango in there for one, just before mine came in. They ended up pulling my frame out, and reinforcing the area it was kinked. Seriously, they did an awesome job and the only way you'd know it was hit would be by the different color (new) undercoating on the rear frame rails. I'm a real perfectionist too. The truck was done right.

My total damage cam to right around 9K.

 

Seems like everything worked out for you man but i live in Virginia and insurance people do not like to put frames in trucks at all. Ive seen cars much worse than mine get fixed but ive also seen cars with alot less get totaled. Ive just got to wait and see what happens

 

That's true... Friends of mine used to work at a "halfway house" for vehicles that just got totalled by insurance companies, but haven't made it to auction yet. There ARE some that I I've seen there that didn'tt look bad at all.

Good luck!

 

Sure, i'll take look and try to give you a ballpark.

BTW, bags can blow at as little as 12mph, it just depends on the change in velocity for the most part. What sucks are some of the vehicles that use wheel speed sensors for the bags, there have been cases when people hydroplane, their wheels start spinning, and when they hit a dry patch and the wheel speed drops back down again, the computer sees a sharp drop in speed, thinks they hit something and deploys the bags. You can even hit a real bad dip in the road and deploy your airbags though.

 

hey low2000 i just sent you a email