The short of the long....
Within 4 hours of purchasing our new 06 DC L Tundra the unthinkable happened......our first damage to our blue baby.......
As the wife is pulling the truck into the garage she suddenly stops and throws the car into park. She promptly gets out and tells me that I have to pull it in because she is scared.
Keep in mind that we have a double garage but the length is just long enough and the height isn't exactly roomy when putting this beast in. I "man" up and jump in. She pulls the car out of the garage and proceeds to park it a little down the block. Being the brilliant man that I am I deciding not to wait for her to return and assist my maneuvering. Instead I make the worst decision of that day by pulling the truck in. Just as the wife makes it back around the corner we both hear the sound.....you know....the scraping sound........We had, and I am emphasizing had, an old swinging garage door. It has a bar that spans the base for support. That bar is supported by a dagger like v-shaped bracket that juts down about 2 inches from the inside (underside when opened). About 2/3 of the way back in the very center of the cab it happened......the death bracket as I like to call it touched down. It was about 1/4 of an inch low enough that it scraped to the metal from the contact point back about 18 inches...just shy of actually hitting the lighting housing for the cab brake light...to this day my stomach still gets ill every time I think about it......
You can not see the damage...it also did not dent or damage the cab in any way.....other then the 18 inch gouge.....
...so it is not nearly as bad as it could be......anyway.......now that the story is out the real question can be posed.....
I have already looked into having this fixed and everyone has told me that the entire cab will need to be repainted if I want to stand a chance of having the paint matched properly. (And that the gouge is too deep to repair regardless of the matching issue) The wife and I got everything we wanted on this truck with the exception of the DVD/Navigation/Bluetooth and the Power Sunroof/Moon roof. I am using this horrible incident as a means to get the Sunroof/Moon roof. I mean come on.....if the cab has to come off anyway..
..so would it be easier to have the S/M cut out of and installed into this cab or should we look at just buying a cab with the s/m already installed by the factory....can we even buy it from the factory? What would something like this possibly cost? Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated!
Within 4 hours of purchasing our new 06 DC L Tundra the unthinkable happened......our first damage to our blue baby.......
As the wife is pulling the truck into the garage she suddenly stops and throws the car into park. She promptly gets out and tells me that I have to pull it in because she is scared.
You can not see the damage...it also did not dent or damage the cab in any way.....other then the 18 inch gouge.....
I have already looked into having this fixed and everyone has told me that the entire cab will need to be repainted if I want to stand a chance of having the paint matched properly. (And that the gouge is too deep to repair regardless of the matching issue) The wife and I got everything we wanted on this truck with the exception of the DVD/Navigation/Bluetooth and the Power Sunroof/Moon roof. I am using this horrible incident as a means to get the Sunroof/Moon roof. I mean come on.....if the cab has to come off anyway..