How I Lost My Classic Jeep Truck, A Costly Repair Nightmare
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- In this video, I share the heartbreaking story of my beloved 1977 J10 Jeep truck, affectionately named Pumpkin. What started as a simple repair job turned into a nightmare after a devastating wind storm hit the area, causing significant damage to my classic truck.
Watch as I recount the series of unfortunate events that led to the loss of Pumpkin, including a mechanic's negligence, an expensive bill, and an unsatisfactory insurance payout. Discover who I believe is at fault and how this experience left me with a financial loss and without my cherished truck.
Join me on this emotional journey and let me know your thoughts in the comments. Have you ever faced a similar situation? What would you have done differently.
Time for a law suit.
I thought about it. But I decided not to.
@Otho1001 do it
@@Otho1001 do it bro
@@Otho1001you should do it
What is there to sue? The mechanics charged for the service they have done and they paid for the damages that occurred while the truck was in their responsibility…
You should never have paid the mechanic 3500. They're supposed to have insurance for that
The bill was for the work that had been done up to that point. The mechanic had the right to put a lien on the vehicle till paid for that. The insurance covers the damages done not the repairs done before the loss.
@@Cragified you have the tight to keep the truck and it would cost that much to fix the frame
@@bennaylor3658 Depends on your state. Some states you have the right to deduct the salvage value of the vehicle from the insurance payout (Buying back). Basically what they evaluate the value to be of the totaled vehicle. Other states it's the discretion of the insurance company.
@@Cragifiedand the Mechanic takes responsibility for your property.
Why I don’t live where there’s tornadoes
Pumpkin deserved a better fate.
Never leave a classic with people who don’t value them like you do.
She deserved a better mechanic also.
Then don't take it to a shop at all. Because NO shop cares about your car like you do. Your car is a dollar sign. Nothing more.
Cindirella's magic pumpkin turned into a magnificent carraige, while his cursed pumkin turned squash at the junk yard.
@@toldyouso5588 ok, that's pretty good.😆
"She was there for months", BIG red flag.
Could be, but with classic vehicles oem parts aren't abundant anymore so finding them is hard or finding someone to make the parts is hard to find
Facts, my buddy dropped his 03 Silverado off at the shop for a tune. Took 8 months and $10,000 because "they fried the computer" and it cost like 7k for a new one, and then 3000 in labor apparently. When he got it back a bunch of stuff was stolen out of the truck.
@@StarHunter28 $7,000 for a ECM sounds like they were ripping him off big time unless he had some fancy aftermarket ECM. If they fried it they should replace it. I would have removed my truck then. This is why I don't take my cars to shops.
@@frotobaggins7169 Right. Especially for an 03 silverado. Those things are dime a dozen. When I put a 5.3 in my 73 I had a local guy sell me a harness and a flashed ecm for 700$.
Sounds like a lack of intelligence problem. You should look into what happened when we were missing chips and how long it took to get things repaired. Go find parts for an old truck like that. And see how quickly they show up.
One, do not talk to their insurance company. Two, hire a attorney. Three, if you have a check DO NOT CASH IT. Four, talk to the attorney.
I would add stop whining like a little girl about your "pumpkin."
@@jakester455youve never owned a nice vehicle or put one together. Its like a art piece, one day youll have the money to figure it out
@jakester455 are you the little girl? I think so
@@jakester455 suck start a 12g
Any attorney i find just wants you to be injured or they dont take you case
That truck definitely could have been repaired. It a shame how many so-called car and truck enthusiasts can’t even change a flat tire.
At least they create jobs for mechanics and body shops. Body shop insurance should have been better on price, shop should have refunded some.
Seems like a good opportunity to reinvest his $16k payout to straighten the frame, beef it up and go full 4 link lift.
@sarahelgin8082, surely they don't pay you out AND give you the vehicle back?
I'm going to assume you have no idea what you're talking about, since you're implying that owner must not be a real car enthusiast for not getting the truck repaired after the insurance company totalled it or for taking it to the mechanic in the first place.
@@hveeee It depends on the state and the insurance company. A lot of times the insurance company will let the owner keep it, if only to avoid having to deal with this now essentially worthless wreck. 😅
I know a doctor who had an S class Mercedes. He went on vacation to California and left it for service at the Mercedes dealer. One of the dealership employees drives it to Atlanta, wrecks it, and abandons it. The Atlanta police recover the car and call him in California asking why it is there. He calls the Mercedes dealership and they accuse him of trying to pull something over on them.
Wow what in the world
@@Otho1001 Your story reminded me that when you turn over your vehicle to others, bad things can happen.
LAW SUIT!
Sue them.
@@lateefcarrere1649 Commenters want to sue, but that isn't a good solution. Once it was determined that a dealership employee was responsible for stealing the car from the facility and wrecking it, the dealership's insurance paid for it.
lol! You accept a settlement that included deeming your vehicle as a “total loss”. You had every right to deny that settlement offer and keep your clear title by forcing insurance to repair the damage to your property. You accepted a settlement without realizing that you held all the cards. Insurance companies love stupid people.
I wouldn’t call him stupid but they love people who aren’t informed. I think this is a lesson learned, next time he should consult legal counsel before making a decision.
@@skyraiderjetagreed. Luckily my father and I have prior knowledge of this. When my grandfather pass in 2009, he left his 1990 GMC C1500 to my dad in his will. Fast forward to 2019 after having it near fully restored. Dad and I are on the way home from a cruise in. He is driving the C1500, I'm driving my 1991 Suburban with one vehicle in between us. One vehicle cuts Dad off requiring him to slam on brakes and the car behind rear ends him. Insurance tried totaling it for a damaged bumper and cracked taillight lense.
This comment is all too true 😢
Hey now some people don't value garbage like that
Exactly this. I’ve been there before. Just the act of speaking to an attorney would have likely been enough for them to change their tune. At least for me, that how it worked. Never accept a settlement that you believe to be too little.
I was a service writer at a shop and one day we had an insurance company rep checking out the shop after hours, post shop upgrades so the policy would reflect the changes. We had a truck on the lift still and the agent bluntly told us to never leave anything on the lift, raised in the air when not working on it. If we couldn’t take it off the lift, then we had to lower it to the ground and put it on jack stands.
About a month after that, one of the mechanics didn’t listen to that request and a hydraulic line for the lift busted. The truck ended up dropping hard on one side but stopped on a lock. When it stopped, it slid some and damaged the passenger side of the truck. The owner ended up eating the entire cost of the repair and gave the customer his repairs for free.
You're supposed to set it on the locks as soon as you reach the desired height. The only way a line could drop a vehicle is if it blows out while lifting the vehicle !!!
@@arthurgay5746 hell i remember that from highschool in the 90s. "Professionals" are scary af.
Decent owner. Decent businessman. My dad was in construction and when a guy screwed him over on the job instead of telling his employees he couldn't pay them and saying that he wasn't getting paid either he went to the bank and took out a $17,000 line of credit and paid each one of his men including me. He never got the money back from the contractor either.
@@arthurgay5746Yeah I used to work for a company that installed those and I'm surprised I didn't catch that. Good catch! You're always supposed to drop the vehicle on the locks when it reaches the height you want it. It would be insanely reckless not to leave it on the lock. Those locks aren't for safety in case it falls. Those locks are there to hold the vehicle after you lift it.
I probably didn't catch it because I'm used to installing them not using them. But yes that is 1,000% correct. You always put it on the locks as soon as you lift it. And then to put the car down you lift it up a hair and pull the release lever for the locks and then lower it.
You DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE WHAT THE INSURANCE COMPANY WANTS TO PAY YOU SUE THEM AND KEEP YOUR TRUCK
People just don’t get it. A “total loss” is ultimately an offer to settle without repairing the damage. People have the right to be fully restored, regardless of the cost of repairs.
And pay lawyer fees that are triple the additional funds you receive. I'm guessing you are a civil lawyer looking to buy a new boat.
You don't need a lawyer you just have to do some research and have half a brain@@rayh592
I bet the totalled truck is running around with a salvaged title
Smashing pumpkin 🎃
The mecanic is responsible for the security and condition of your vehicle while in their possession.
Pretty sure the mechanic doesn't control the weather....
@@andykhar1269sure, but his insurance will cover it.
@@ryanabbott1104 correct, but it's not right to sue the mechanic for additional compensation over something he had no control over.
@@andykhar1269 absolutely it is. It’s not even a sue situation. If you have possession of my property and it gets damaged, your insurance will cover it. It’s not on me. It’s on him. 100%. Y’all are dumb AF if you think otherwise.
@ryanabbott1104 good thing you don't make the laws but people that are a bit wiser
Lesson learned, Do not trust just any mechanic shop especially if they're keeping your car for months on end. Thats completely ridiculous.
That truck was probably on the lift for months. In fact, it probably fell off the lift before the wind storm.
@@smickandily You cannot keep a vehicle suspended on a lift for extended durations. Locks or no locks. Hydraulic pressure can fail as well as mechanical measures. That statement just tells me you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
@@jrhamilton4448 and what might happen when it fails? 🤣
@@smickandily My point is no shop would keep a vehicle suspended on a lift for extended periods of time. If you do you earn the title of "Sofa King".
@@jrhamilton4448those lifts are how shops make money. Even if you could leave a vehicle on one for months at a time, you're just clogging up one of your bays. If it ain't being worked on, they are gonna put it on the ground and roll it outside
Buy it back from the insurance company at a discount. It will have a salvage title but there isn't any damage that isn't fixable. I can still find parts for my 67 F100 in rural junkyards. Do an online querry- you might be suprized about what you can get if you are willing to pay for shipping 1/2 way across the country.
Make that mechanic famous
That's a great idea do it for pumpkin
Do it. Eagle Automotive & Transmission Repair, Lavon, Tx
what did the shop do wrong? Insurance covered the Jeep cammer even said so in the video. You act like the shop did something outrageous. Maybe you should tell the shop in question how to control or turn a tornadic/severe storm away.
@@rogerhancock8732all that mechanic had to do was drop the truck down on the lift every night and refused refund for HIS MISTAKE. Of course a clown like you doesn't care about money that isn't yours
@@rogerhancock8732 Look everyone, someone works for Allstate.
I know a guy who happens to be in Law Enforcement. He left his truck at the dealership for service, part of the sales deal. He then got a BUNCH of speedcam tickets from the weekend his truck was in the shop. "Mechanic" was fired and the dealer paid the tickets, and added 2 more years of free service to the deal, and accepted bills from other shops for regular maintenances like oil/ filter/ other fluid changes.
Naw I would f straight up sued the dealership
@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1 For what? For them to do what they already volunteered to do anyways? Some people just like arguing with the wind....
HAHAAAAAA... FOLKS... christ Almighty, what we got here is a legal local arm of the mob, the policy pushers of the politicians called the police.. there's a direct reason they all stem from the exact same word and break a law go to jail... Breakkkk a policy and you now owe them money because there is NO VICTIM , No somehow they've managed to trick everybody into thinking it's a thing or as if the state was a victim of you doing something it told you not to and the reason it told you not to is because it knew you would in the first place. That all being true I don't put it past your friend, if he is your friend and if he's not you, I don't doubt he went back and took them tags off day after day night after night and did it as damn self and it's not like he doesn't do it during the day all day in the car anyhow. How many times you seen a cop park cattywampus to traffic just to step out and go kick rocks with his buddies hands on hips gut hanging out over his waist and knowing if he wasn't wearing that uniform and he did that... He'd be kidnapped thrown into a tiny cell remnants of a dog pound where you would actually be treated 10 fold better.. So if it's not you that's who your friends with and birds of a feather my friend.. birds of a feather. Who do you think you are. You took them tags every night didn't you Just because you're getting angry that that truck was up there that long. I'll have you know I'm not done with this investigation
@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1You wouldn't have nothing. You would have received the car back with a bunch of tickets on it and be pushed with a broom stick out the door and ultimately on your bare knees and palms as you break the threshold of the door and get pushed to the ground. There.. now you got something you can sue us over... Gud a day sir.. off ya go🤌
Yeah but he was a cop, we all know cops do whatever they want
Pumpkin was sure a beautiful truck.Sorry for your loss
❤ really tho so mad for him pretty truck
It's tragic
I would take the salvage home and rebuild with other parts.
@@indridcold8433 He could have kept the truck and gotten $12.5k - it's not like the damage was gonna cost $12.5k to fix.
73 Cadillac mechanic left cigarette burning in ashtray. Car burned to crisp. HE had no insurance.
Mechanic dropped my 36 foot yacht off of a trailer. No insurance. Total loss.
@@PaulAstierEveryone always jumps to blame workers, but workers don’t usually have great special reasoning. Sounds like this guy can still do a DIY restore… doesn’t look like there’s damage so severe he can’t park it without any fluids in it for another decade. That’s still his baby.
A cigarette huh? Care to explain how one single cigarette ignited a whole car? I definitely would love to know this.
@@mra55h0le Was in 1980. That's what the fire dept. told me. Water under the bridge. lol
@@NuthaMuthaLuva its frame was bent
Well the mechanic is at fault but you shouldn’t have settled with the insurance company until they gave you what you felt you deserved and if you weren’t getting anywhere with them you should have got a lawyer involved and had them deal with it. Assuming that truck booked out for what you paid for it there shouldn’t have been any issue adding the mechanics bill to the claim because you never got to take advantage of the work that was being completed. Yea you could try to go after them civilly but you already took their pay out and depending on what you signed off on you might not have a leg to stand on.
That's not even my truck and I'm so f****** pissed I know the feeling of losing your Jeep😢
Someone shit in your Wheaties
He chose to lose it.
It was so beautiful too 😭
@@bird6691 yeah... kinda.. 😢
That was an act of God. It's not a very unusual thing for a mechanic to leave a truck on a lift overnight especially when he's working on it.
Granted I don't live/work in any hurricane type area, but in the past 30ish years I've been wrenching, I've left cars on lifts raised in the air hundreds of times overnight... sometimes over several nights. So long as the shop and equipment is properly maintained, AND the veh is properly racked for the work being done, you got nothing to worry about!
Uh huh, except in this case
THIS IS WHAT A REASONABLE PERSON WOULD THINK...THIS CREATOR ISNT REASONABLE/REALISTIC, AND THEREFORE LESS BELIEVEABLE
You must have blown in from stupid town ...please taken the earliest bus back @@Shooter40cal
God left it on the lift?
No one in a professional mechanic shop leaves ANYTHING in the air on a lift. It's considered a "safety hazard" to leave any lift up in the air loaded.
This is why I work on my own stuff and don't let anyone one touch it.
Considering how every time I get an oil change some where and the next time I do I need a big ass breaker bar to take it off, I hate taking it to a mechanic.
Bingo
For real, and if you dont know how to do something yourself, RUclips is a hell of a tool these days.
The circle jerk of insurance companies is ridiculous.
I bought a motorcycle in Ohio. Tried to register it in PA, but PA said I couldn't register it unless I had insurance.
Insurance Company said they couldn't insure it without registration.
This went on and on until I refused to keep making payments. Once the bank realized they weren't going to get paid they stepped in and fixed it.
Took 2 months.
Michigan also requires Insurance before vechicles can be registered.
I have purchased insurance for vehicles plenty of times before registering them in not sure what your problem would be
@@thatoneguy45234 The last one I did I as still at the dealership doing paperwork and got insurance on it. Didn't register it for another month.
@thatoneguy45234 Yeah I bought a cts in Georgia but live in MS I insured it the next day all I needed was the vin
I live in PA and have bought my last two bikes out of state and several other vehicles in and out of state. Never have I needed registration to put insurance on a vehicle. I never even needed proof of ownership.
Definitely need insurance to register anything though.
I see lawsuit and I see suing the mechanic that owns the garage
I'd find a place to straighten or replace the frame as it's value will only increase over time.
Did the Mechanic cause the wind storm! NO!
Thus the mechanic is to pay for the damages, and not pay for past work performed!?
@@mrdan2898 it was HIS irresponsibility to leave the truck raised on the lift overnight. Even after that, he made him pay 3500 so he could take to a body shop. That guy just deserves prison for life
This is why nobody touches my vehicles but me.
Amen to that. Same here.
Same with your penis im assuming
10000000%
@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259. That’s impressive. I don’t know a single person who has a tire machine, perform their own alignments, rebuilds their transmission, installs diffs, and has the machining equipment and skills required for engine work. Kudos my man.
@@sharpright6887 I have an automatic transmission apart on my bench right now, it'll be back together tomorrow morning.
That's a shame. These trucks need to be saved.
Somebody will still buy it goes up for auction he probably bought the truck with a bent frame
I passed on buying one for a couple grand in the 90s.
I needed a daily & it got 7 mpg
Nah this is good. He took it to a mechanic? He’s not a car guy. These old projects aren’t for rich pricks with money to waste. It’s for the blue collar guys that know how to do the work themselves. Stay in your lane city boi
@@hughjazz2408 who u calling a city "boi"?
Dopest trucks. Fr d100 dodge trucks need to be saved too. Hardly see any of them left either
That’s why I’m thankful of my years wrenching, I just do it myself. Even after not working as a mechanic anymore I still choose to do it myself.
This is why everyone needs to learn to work on their own stuff
I'm 80 years old and you want me to work on my own stuff? Get over yourself dude.
@@walkeriam7my grandpa's 85 and still works on his own shit, generally turns down mine or my uncle's help 🤣
Your issue is with the insurance company. That isn't the mechanic's fault. He got screwed also.
No, the $3500 in parts were never delivered to this guy. The shop's insurance should have reimbursed them for that, not this guy.
@@lexus82suit was installed on his truck along with the labor. F****** stupid people
@@lexus82su it had been there months, you don't think that mechanic installed any of the parts in his list? I guarantee you that the mechanic ordered nearly everything and whatever wasn't installed went inside the vehicle when this kid payed.
That said, he shouldn't have paid, I would have told the dude that he needs to take it up with his insurance company, depending on his policy the insurance may not reimburse for the shop owner's lost labor but that's not this kid's problem. Also obviously hit the insurance company myself with a claim for the damages.
wrong. you lower the lift at the end of the day. that negligence
also wasn't on the lift properly if that knocked it off
it is in the mechanic's shop he is FULLY responsible for anything that happens IN HIS SHOP!
you can file a lawsuit and get more than a refund
I left my 2004 Land Rover Discovery at a mechanic shop to get the wheels ballanced. When I came back 2 hours later, my vehicle was smashed through the drive-in door then the wall, a COMPLETE WRITE OFF! The shop owner said, "Too bad he's not paying." My insurance company said that since I didn't have collision, they weren't paying. Before hitting the wall, my vehicle hit a car in the parking lot, and they put a claim against my insurance. WHICH MADE ME 100% RESPONSIBLE AT FAULT EVEN THOUGH I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS DAMAGE!
Sue the shop for triple the value of the vehicle. Make them repair it, regardless of cost to them as well.
@@garycamara9955 Lawyers want $5,000 to start.
I would have taken any money the insurance is asking me to pay for the damages and hired a lawyer.
Sue the shop for all damages and the increased cost moving forward on your insurance.
It's the mechanic fault, why would they leave it on the lift
Complacency and laziness
Walk into any dealer or mechanic shop vehicles are left on the lift all the time it's completely safe as long as your Lyft is good. And as long as nothing abnormal happens like this situation
Would you have rather the mechanic left it outside? Every auto shop moves whatever vehicles they’re still working on into the shop at the end of the day. Depending on space and amount of vehicles, this often requires putting some on lifts. They do this to PROTECT customer cars.
Sorry about the truck, a real tragedy. But the only thing to blame is nature.
Our shop has are four lifts loaded every night because of lack of parking outside
Cars are typically left on lifts overnight. The hurricane that blew it off is not typical
So some mechanics will charge storage fees, exactly why we only bring car to the shop is when we have the part that needs repair. We generally never leave car overnight.
Damn brother keep your head up. A lot of people don’t even get to see one of those in their lifetime. Stay up.
I've owned three of them over the years myself, and had five wagoneers as well years ago.
@@VB-bk1lh he’ll yah!!!
See them for sale all the time
as you get older, you'll begin to realize what a tragedy truly is ... and it's not losing a potential 4k profit on an old truck flip.... That's just hard earned experience, and the tragedy is you thinking it's some major problem
Exactly 💯 what I was thinking
I'm a Yota guy and usually I pick on Jeeple, but I do have to admit that was a damn fine looking truck, and a sad and unfortunate tragedy!
Any lift manufacturer will say there’s nothing wrong with keeping a vehicle up in the air as long as it’s on the safety . Bent frame ? Sounds like something was wrong beforehand
100% - a full frame truck does not get a bent frame slipping and going down 5 or 6 feet.
Exactly. That damage was already there. That Comanche Commander should be able to jump things higher than that without taking any damage at all
@@rollin18wheels I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure the commander was a suv, that's a J10
@@jarredrodriguez7072 you might be right about that & it may just be a SJ Comanche. I could have sworn the truck was called a Commander or was the original Gladiator or something like that
@@rollin18wheels I only figured it was a J10 because I'm buying one off my boss in a few months and the badge on the side of the one featured, but I did some looking the J10 is a full size truck it was based off the old Wagoneer, the Comanche is more of a mini truck based off the Cherokee, the more you know I guess 😄
Its a AMC jeep should have done the work yourself.
It was just too much and I was too busy. I didn’t wanna wait any longer.
@@Otho1001horrible this happened to you and the truck. Would have been tempted to save possible. I have 6 cj5s and a tornado was near my bldg about 2 weeks ago. Came out ok but I was thinking here we go
You should have.
Never went to a mechanic and you should have went to a restoration shop. You should also make sure that it is in writing from the mechanic shop that if something should happen to this vehicle that you will be fully reimburseIf you can't find someone who's willing to fully reimburse you. Or have insurance that would cover any kind of damage. Or theft to your vehicle while in their possession. Then you should not use them. Any money you saved? You ended up losing in the end. Should have just paid the 20K. For an already ready daily driver.
@@Otho1001The not wanting to wait costed you it all. Hard lesson there son. Fault is anyone who works on the vehicle. Rather kick myself in the ass than someone elses.
He should have had his vehicle looked after after the people who wanted money from him took possession of the vehicle what world do you live in.
I am very sorry for your loss!! I have been there with my "Tigger" Truck ( 73' Chevy p/u Orange/white with general mag wheels) ... 😢
Lawsuit is your ONLY option to make it somewhat right!!
Even I started tearin up. I'd lawyer up and see what they say about a case. Never know until you ask. Good luck and Sorry for your loss.
Thanks man
@@Otho1001 ,
I learnt how to fix Lawnmower engines when I was 14 years old , I had a Lawnmowing job and made $15 per week , I was making $60 per month and for a kid in the 1970s that was a lot of money .
40 years later I work on chainsaws , weedeaters , motorcycles , cars , trucks, anything and everything , even my Bulldozer .
There ain't NOTHING that I can't fix !
When people have experiences like this, and don’t put the name of the shop on blast, I have zero sympathy.
Either don’t waste our time complaining, or give us a way to actually do something.
A business can’t stay open too long if it’s getting absolutely bombed with bad reviews and constant calls.
And he did it to himself. He pretends it's tragic and that it meant a lot when he couldn't even be arsed to not get screwed over
Why we never leave cars up on racks overnight. I’m sorry to hear about that bro, having a classic/colletion car ruined because of someone else’s negligence is always a tragedy
And that's why I don't pay "mechanics" to work on my stuff. 🙄
Exactly how is this the mechanics fault? Did he or she magically conjure a natural disaster of a extreme wind storm? Woe they must be talented
Jimkrakhead the mechanic has a business has ins. Anything happen inside that shop he pays ins. or out of his pocket. Get a lawyer and he replace your vehicle
A truck frame bent from falling 5 or 6 feet.....sure.
@@peterl2017that can absolutely happen. I see it all the time.
@@Natehustlin4232 Watching the video, I don't believe it, only the front fell and landed on the tires. Not enough to bend a good frame. I believe the insurance would scrap it due to overall damage but not a bent frame due to it falling off the hoist. I imagine the frame was bent already, or very weak.
I also urge everyone to pause on the insurance settlement offer and read it all.
I own a shop and multiple classic cars and can tell you that if you want to get full value in a case like this. It's your responsibility to have a cash value insurance policy. No insurance company would ever give a business insurance that will cover more than blue book value. I can't say why it took months to get the work done, only that it can often take a very long time to get parts for classic vehicles, especially old jeeps. We often have to send parts away to be rebuilt, which can easily take 6-8 months to get back.
“You tell me who’s at fault” as he ends the clip with highlighting his innocence
Where in the video did it show any guilt was his?
And this is why you get a lawyer before you settle with anybody involved in this entire mess
Growing up my neighbors had a Jeep just like that one, and one day he forgot to leave it in gear when he got home. We both lived on a good sized hill so the truck rolled down the driveway, across the street, and way down the embankment on the other side. Somehow it didn't cause much damage because it was stopped by brush and bushes, but when it was getting pulled out the truck rolled over 3 times and destroyed it. It was a good looking truck too
Now you know which mechanic not to go to!!!
Time to court that mechanic for sure.
Sure, blame the mechanic for the storm. As Walter would say, dumb ass.
That really sucks dude. Sorry for your broken heart.
You sir, got screwed.
I would sue the pants off of them.
The mechanic shop should’ve known that that was gonna be bad weather and prepared
and this is why you dont let any random mechanic shop look after something that precious... you either do it yourself or with a friend whos a wizard in mechanic..
Sue in small claim court
Its too much for small claims court.
For what? The shops insurance paid the owner over 16K for the Jeep. Rewatch the video.
That just sucks, what a beautiful lil pumpkin
This is something I’ve learned recently when insuring a vehicle that is worth a lot more than the kbb value you need classic car insurance bc kbb says that truck is worth $1000 but people in the community know it’ll sell for over $30k fully restored
That's a good truck that's a really good jeep that's a real budget
I would Sue That Shop
This is why you do it yourself. the truck problem is nothing compared to my work of replacing body panels.
Watch it with the "antique" buddy! That truck was new, when I was a kid.
Pumpkin 🎃 sent her to the mechanic to get PATCHED up 😝 I see what you did there😅
So sorry, dude. God bless you.❤
As someone who witnessed an idiot drop a almond metallic 90's custom Ford dually off of a lift at a place I used to work and witnessed the process, phone calls, and paperwork that the company did to take care of the customer. That's on the shop and their insurance. It also shouldn't have been up on the lift during that weather as well. This should be taken to court.
That's a life lesson. Chalk it up to stupidity. Fix your own stuff. Extremely easy truck to work on. No mechanic will take care of your stuff better than you. If he couldn't fix your truck in over three months, he wasn't a mechanic anyway.
I'll bet somebody working on it, is now the proud new owner of Pumpkin !!!
Lots of the comments about the shop taking a long time. 1977 means it's still an AMC Jeep and a lot of the parts for those are near impossible to find. I had a 1974 with a missing air injection system. It had a GMC produced 258 i6 and near all the parts were unobtanium. After a pre-internet full year of searching, the parts were none to be found. So, seeing a shop held on to it for that long won't surprise me. In the end I had to surrender mine as a "gross polluter" (mind you, it passed tailpipe) and I still painfully miss that truck to this day.
Tragedies only concern human lives... It definitely sucks that your truck got damaged but that is the farthest thing from a tragedy
I have a truck named 'pig' an 87 silverado thats an 88 bodystyle but was built in September of 87 the first of the obs bodystyle. And it was my dads truck that he gave to me and its been our project well last year i hit a deer doing over 80 absolutely decimated the core support driver side fender shoved up into the door custom cal hood absolutely destroyed frame bent & tweaked never told the insurance company 😂 ive spent the past year putting it back together having to drill custom holes because its all outa wack even with me straighting it out a bit had to drill custom holes for the bumper and brackets and its not perfect dont line up quite right but thats my truck. Thats the truck i want there aint no other like it. To much sentimental value to get rid of it even if it was totalled but now shes back and still running strong 🤙
Bury that company in a law suit so they never do this to someone else’s one of a kind rig… fuck man…
I love all of the arguments going on down here.
Folks arguing about laws depsite them being from different states with different laws, folks saying "falling couldn't have damaged the frame." and things like that, it's crazy.
So here's a little checklist for you guys!
○ Do you know the laws of the state this happened in?
○ Do you have experience in metalworking, and have you pushed metal to the edge of its elastic deformation?
○ Are you getting angry over the comments?
Mentally check off the boxes that apply, go talk to other car enthusiasts once you scroll on by, and please remember that unless you have hands-on experience, you may not be 100% on the mark, even if you aren't wrong.
Hotheads will argue with you anyway.
Be prepared to close the comments and move on.
I owned a 77 J10 Honcho, bright blue, 401 4bl Quadratrac. Best truck I ever owned. Wish I still had it. Got 7mpg
Sometimes i think to myself how shitty the work will come out if i do my own job. But due to having a similar expeirence it s the better option.. i will say at least once you find that reliable mechanic life is good. Condolences to the jeep
Wow! That was a nice looking truck. Those things must be scarce.
Man I’m crying for you it ain’t your fault the shop should’ve been more responsible
This is the reason I do all my own work can't trust a single person to not try and screw u over
This is EXACTLY why no one but me works on my rigs
Should have not paid left it there and went to the news station that would literally destroy the business as it was in there care so there responsible
Number 1. Lawsuit against the mechanic.
Number 2. Get the truck back.
Number 3. Remove the fenders and the doors. Also remove the engine.
Number 4. Send the frame and cab to get straightened. Start the rebuild from there. If you take your time and do it yourself, you can rebuild Pumpkin bigger and better. If you do as much as you can, you could keep your cost down and that 16,000 will just about pay for all of your parts and labor for the things you don't feel comfortable with. That truck is PRIME for a rebuild. If you don't do it, someone else will!
The mechanic is at fault. Every single shop I know is either smart enough to drop the cars or sturdy enough to withstand the worst weather in the area
Rip pumpkin. A true soldier 🪖💪
What you didn’t say is, how did your insurance company respond to the Mechanics insurance?
It doesn’t matter what it could sell for. You only get what you paid. You gotta accept that. There would be and should be a lawsuit against that mechanic. You should never have paid him anything. It’s at his shop so he is responsible for it. Take him to court.
Always fun fighting the insurance company for a classic or custom vehicle. A friend of mines father's garage burnt with several old and a few newer trucks he'd built, but the insurance wanted to give him bottom dollar for all of em.
One of the very first safety measures they taught me at mechanics school was NEVER leave the shop with a car raised on a lift!! The fuck that they left her there was a huge red flag
Never leave a car on the lift overnight, sure, why dont you try telling the guys doing cab offs on pickups that. Lol
@@redranger6751 if you seperate the cab from the chassis and you have the cab on a lift you should at least lower the lift and have it on ground level, it's even better if you can cushion it on used tires or anything like that, just to be safe in case anything happens so you can minimise damage on both the cab and your equipment, those guys not only had the entire truck on the lift for no reason but they also had it raised up about 1.5 meters tall for no reason
That sounds like a pretty nasty lawsuit. You can throw their way and also search up their history. See if they’ve done the standing other people ask them to help Sue them.
I dont understand how they are charging him for damage because they're door got blow off and pushed the truck off?
Any “mechanic” who’s got a shop that looks like that is your first sign
That is horrific!! The shop has insurance and is responsible for your vehicle while they have it ! They left it in the hoist, which caused more damage !! SUE !
ALL in cost, loss, pain and suffering, plus deductible .
- not my vehicle…. Yet… I’m pissed off …. Love my classics - car guys feel your pain 🤬
That's a big reason why I do all my own work
There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't tell everybody who this mechanic is.
You need to name the shop that killed your pumpkin! By exposing them you might prevent someone else getting screwed over by them.
You know that mechanic accidentally dropped it off the lift... Poor pumpkin
On classic vehicles, you always want to have an assessment done through a reputable company so you can have documentation what the vehicle is worth. Always have detailed pics. You also need to make sure your insurance covers it for the proper value. In this case, you can still send pics in to a company to give the proper value to the shop's insurance company as the "blue book" value is always less than the actual value. You can also find and screenshot comparable vehicles to prove the market value in your area. There is always the option to buy back your vehicle back once it's been totaled and fix it.
my dad left his brand new Honda crv one time on the dealers shop cause there was a noise when your driving, the dealers mechanic drove it and caused an accident, ramming it on the back of a semi, it pretty much totaled the suv. the Dealer wanted to just repair it and give it back, but my dad refused it and was willing to sue. so the dealer gave him another brand new Honda CRV.
Man ..... That's such a beautiful truck...😰😮💨
Everybody is pointing at it being God's act, but that mechanic is the turd that destroyed your Pumpkin.
Nah, that's a damn lawsuit right there. Short of rebuilding the entire body, it shouldn't take months to get what was listed done. And this happened while the vehicle was in their care, making it their responsibility. I would not have paid a cent until I had a lawyer.
I feel for ya bud, its never good to deal with insurance companies...WE always get screwed!!!