Question on rear-end collition

[Al Cisne]

Got rear ended at a light yesterday by a kid texting. Nothing major except the rear bumper on my Gen1 is hanging down about 1.5 inches. Is it a simple adjustment or is there hidden damage that I need to look out for? I had just turned 150K miles the day before and this it the first time it has had any damage besides parking lot rash or brush scrapes.

Thanks for the responses!

 

[Hal S]

The rear frame rails tend to buckle causing the bumper to slant.

It's not a biggie for a body shop to fix.

They wll probably pull the bed off to fix it though.

 

[swshawaii]

 

[Norm Reeves]

You have mail.....

 

[Mark Price 2]

one thing to check for is the plastic reinforcement bumper that is right behind the plastic bumper cover. My teenage daughter backed into a wall in a parking lot. Bumped the corner of the bumper. No noticeable damage. Just a little scrape. But, when I crawled under I saw a big crack and the metal bracket was bent a bit. Grabbed onto the plastic bumper reinforcement and the whole end(corner) of it fell right out. It was split all the way. I believe it is designed to do this. Probably to absorb impact. She said she barley felt a thing. I'm still hunting down a replacement. I've only seen front ones online. I think my only option is a junkyard. I'm just sure never to stand on that corner in the mean time:banghead:

edit: I have seen new ones. But, IIRC they were a few hundred dollars

 

[Mark Price 2]

Item #2 in the diagram. called "impact bar" ..guess it did it's job

 

[Phill R]

The brackets on the Gen 1's are slotted to make the bumber drop when hit in the rear. When mine was hit, I was able to loosen the bolts and raise it back into place.



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[Al Cisne]

Got the Trac fixed. It cost them $571 to put a new bumper cover on my truck. he problem now is that I had used Krylon plastic fusion on the old one and the rest of the cladding and not it does not match.