I got completely pasted in my F350 by a Honda Odyssey minivan yesterday morning. I stopped for traffic in front of me, the other guy didn't. He hit me so hard, he pushed me UPhill into a Honda Civic and then another 10-15 feet. The Civic rolled about 30 more feet up the hill before it stopped. The Odyssey is toast.. Hood folded back over the windshield, all kinds of fluids all over the road, radiator tacoed with a trailer hitch sized hole in the middle of it.. Good thing it had airbags..
The Civic just had a mangled trunk lid. Didn't even break the taillights.
My truck is going to need a bumper, all the bracketry and pads, the wiring harness for the trailer lights and a trailer hitch. Frame rails are a little tweaked but shouldn't be too bad to get 'em straightened. Virtually no sheetmetal damage other than 2 scratches from the bumper folding under. Front end damage was light. My Warn light bar got tweaked a bit - lights didn't even get a scratch- and the bumper has a ding. Some of the plastic has some scuff marks on it as well.
So, now that I need a new bumper, I'd like to pick up one of the "smoothie" bumpers.. I visited a few of the shops locally, but nobody carries them.. Anyone got any good online shops to visit to check 'em out? I'm sure a smoothie bumper will probably be cheaper than the OEM unit...
Thx!