Can't speak for yours, but my '00 Dak got rear-ended 5 days after I got it.
Pretty much the same thing, except it was a full sized Ram that nailed me.
Everything from the doors back was replaced. Frame, not a problem. They
couldn't find a thing wrong with the frame, and I've not had a bit of
problems with it in the 40k since. I would suspect that the brunt was taken
by the bed itself, and the frame was only affected by the downforce on the
bumper.
Only problem I had was getting parts (actually, the body shop had the
problems) Seems that rear cab parts were hard to find, since it was only
11/99 when it happened to the '00 truck. Not alot of parts in the supply
chain yet.
--Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: <ABeerCan@aol.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: DML: I shouldn't say this but........
> I know! I know! I am gonna start a new curse! But I have to vent. My
wife
> and I were on our way home today. And of course after two and a half
months
> of no rain, we get a down pour today. Anyway, I was going down the
highway
> and the car in front of me slammed on the brakes. I hit mine, the
antilock
> worked on the back, but I don't have it on the front. The other car sees
me,
> floors it and I think "Whew!! That was...... (BAM!!!!) **CK!!!!!" I
was
> rear ended by a 91 Accord. She rolled my rear bumper under my spare tire,
> the bed smacked the back of the cab, it busted two bed mounts, bent the
rear
> bumper brackets. Hell, she hit me hard enough to knock my pioneer cd
player
> out of my dash!!! OK, now I have a question. The bed hit the back of the
> cab, however, it now rest where it should, even though the two mounts are
> broke (they are the ones right in front of the wheel wells). Did the
frame
> flex that much, or did the bed actually move that far and ten settled back
> down? Oh yeah, my wife and I are fine, a little sore, but we'll be ok
> tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for the help. Yan cun san tuaon. There, I
> stopped the curse from spreading, maybe mine will be the last on the list
to
> get crunched. At least I hadn't installed my roll pan yet!!!!!
>
> Will
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