Crashed and rolled. Ugh. Looking for some advice

[dragoneggs]

your wife was totalled?! So sorry for your loss.
at least now you can get a new jeep and new girl!

I was going to crack the same joke but decided OP might not take it so well. Sucks… glad your wife is okay. And she is probably feeling doubly bad to have totalled the Jeep.

Easy to say, just hit the deer. Sometimes natural instinct kicks in before one can think it through.

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[Mobboss]

Glad she is ok! Like others have said it will probably be marked as totaled . And they will offer you a buy back . Heres where it gets interesting. If you really like the jeep and wheeling , then id keep it, hell why not now you can go wheeling without the worry of scratching it or putting a dent in it! The parts are readily available, and if its not your daily driver you can fix it slowly and add what you want. Id say a win win.

 

[mgenbox]

your wife was totalled?! So sorry for your loss.
at least now you can get a new jeep and new girl!

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[mgenbox]

Hate to say it, this^^^.
I tried avoiding another vehicle and tagged a wall at 1mph, cost $1,500 in paint. USAA tried to claim it was a single vehicle accident, so all my fault. I said, a vehicle pulled out in front of me while i was doing 5mph on ice, so decided not to hit them. Bad mistake. Took a year and two sworn affidavits from my wife who was passenger to convince them, not my fault.

Geez

 

[Valpo Jeep]

Jeep understood its job and your wife walked away.

Probably totaled. The part that sucks is this counts as a collision, if she would have hit the deer it would be a comprehensive claim and probably not totaled. When our kids started driving our insurance agent explained it this way and told them don’t swerve and cause an accident, just hit the deer.

 

[mgenbox]

Glad she is ok! Like others have said it will probably be marked as totaled . And they will offer you a buy back . Heres where it gets interesting. If you really like the jeep and wheeling , then id keep it, hell why not now you can go wheeling without the worry of scratching it or putting a dent in it! The parts are readily available, and if its not your daily driver you can fix it slowly and add what you want. Id say a win win.

Def unitedly love it n wheelin
It’s not a daily. Would want to get it roadworthy again but not sure how much funds that will take

 

[PatriotX]

Stuff is stuff. Glad your family is ok.

 

[TrailScooter]

I smell a rock buggy.

Wasn't me! I had taco bell...

 

[Riverjeep]

Ouch, no real advice, just wanted to say hope you get it all fixed or insurance payoff to get another!

 

[bjm00se]

If that's not a total, I'll eat my Moab baseball cap.

As far as buying it back and trying to restore - the relevant question is: how much of your discretionary time do you want to devote to learning and performing fabrication?

It absolutely won't be worth it to *pay* someone to convert it to a trailer queen rock buggy with roll cage. But if you've got the itch to learn welding and fabrication, well this could be the opportunity.

But starting from scratch, don't be surprised if it ends up being a thousand hours of work spread over the next two or three years, basically consuming every weekend and most of your free time.

Practicing welding on scrap pieces until you've mastered the basics enough to weld something you're going to actually drive.
Mocking up designs with cardboard.
Welding up pieces and parts.
Redoing the stuff that doesn't work out.
Scrounging at junkyards and on the internet for parts.
And for different parts, when the ones you thought would work, don't.

I'm not knocking it. That's the stuff you have to enjoy, in order to bring a project like this to completion. Some folks do, others not so much.

Yeah, I know there are some expert fabricators on this forum that could do it much faster than a thousand hours. This is the estimate for "learn while doing."

 

[dragoneggs]

If that's not a total, I'll eat my Moab baseball cap.

As far as buying it back and trying to restore - the relevant question is: how much of your discretionary time do you want to devote to learning and performing fabrication?

It absolutely won't be worth it to *pay* someone to convert it to a trailer queen rock buggy with roll cage. But if you've got the itch to learn welding and fabrication, well this could be the opportunity.

But starting from scratch, don't be surprised if it ends up being a thousand hours of work spread over the next two or three years, basically consuming every weekend and most of your free time.

Practicing welding on scrap pieces until you've mastered the basics enough to weld something you're going to actually drive.
Mocking up designs with cardboard.
Welding up pieces and parts.
Redoing the stuff that doesn't work out.
Scrounging at junkyards and on the internet for parts.
And for different parts, when the ones you thought would work, don't.

I'm not knocking it. But that's the stuff you have to enjoy, in order to bring a project like this to completion.

Yeah, I know there are some expert fabricators on this forum that could do it much faster than a thousand hours. This is the estimate for "learn while doing."

 

[DaltonGang]

If that's not a total, I'll eat my Moab baseball cap.

As far as buying it back and trying to restore - the relevant question is: how much of your discretionary time do you want to devote to learning and performing fabrication?

It absolutely won't be worth it to *pay* someone to convert it to a trailer queen rock buggy with roll cage. But if you've got the itch to learn welding and fabrication, well this could be the opportunity.

But starting from scratch, don't be surprised if it ends up being a thousand hours of work spread over the next two or three years, basically consuming every weekend and most of your free time.

Practicing welding on scrap pieces until you've mastered the basics enough to weld something you're going to actually drive.
Mocking up designs with cardboard.
Welding up pieces and parts.
Redoing the stuff that doesn't work out.
Scrounging at junkyards and on the internet for parts.
And for different parts, when the ones you thought would work, don't.

I'm not knocking it. That's the stuff you have to enjoy, in order to bring a project like this to completion. Some folks do, others not so much.

Yeah, I know there are some expert fabricators on this forum that could do it much faster than a thousand hours. This is the estimate for "learn while doing."

Well said.
CliffsNotes version: Totaled, and don't mess with it.

 

[new to JL's]

glad to hear your wife is OK.

I keep reminding the family (and myself) to never veer for deer....

 

[mgenbox]

If that's not a total, I'll eat my Moab baseball cap.

As far as buying it back and trying to restore - the relevant question is: how much of your discretionary time do you want to devote to learning and performing fabrication?

It absolutely won't be worth it to *pay* someone to convert it to a trailer queen rock buggy with roll cage. But if you've got the itch to learn welding and fabrication, well this could be the opportunity.

But starting from scratch, don't be surprised if it ends up being a thousand hours of work spread over the next two or three years, basically consuming every weekend and most of your free time.

Practicing welding on scrap pieces until you've mastered the basics enough to weld something you're going to actually drive.
Mocking up designs with cardboard.
Welding up pieces and parts.
Redoing the stuff that doesn't work out.
Scrounging at junkyards and on the internet for parts.
And for different parts, when the ones you thought would work, don't.

I'm not knocking it. That's the stuff you have to enjoy, in order to bring a project like this to completion. Some folks do, others not so much.

Yeah, I know there are some expert fabricators on this forum that could do it much faster than a thousand hours. This is the estimate for "learn while doing."

Thanks for the insight.
Yeah I don’t have the tools for it or space really. I would love to be able to but just not a reality. I’m just going to put all the stock parts back on and move on
Thx everybody and god bless!

 

[drvn]

Sadness. Unfortunately, probably best to move on

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