Got in a wreck, Now I have a suicide door ram 1500 :/

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Looks great. Hopefully it doesn't come back to haunt you when you go to sell it & it shows up in the carfax.
I worry about that also, I have some very good friends with successful new/used car dealerships and I was going to ask them how much the damage is going to affect my trade in value. I have to call the dealer tomorrow for issues, Both LS TPMS sensors are still not reading anything after 100 miles of driving and at 70-75 there is a very odd humming sound that sounds like every bad wheel bearing ive ever had in my life LOL. The truck has 77k and from what I see on my repair report they reused the old wheel bearing/hub which im assuming took a shot if it bent the upper/lower control arm and they also had to install a new axle shaft.
 

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I worry about that also, I have some very good friends with successful new/used car dealerships and I was going to ask them how much the damage is going to affect my trade in value. I have to call the dealer tomorrow for issues, Both LS TPMS sensors are still not reading anything after 100 miles of driving and at 70-75 there is a very odd humming sound that sounds like every bad wheel bearing ive ever had in my life LOL. The truck has 77k and from what I see on my repair report they reused the old wheel bearing/hub which im assuming took a shot if it bent the upper/lower control arm and they also had to install a new axle shaft.
Sounds like the TPMS cable has a break in it. Take it back & make them fix it & the hub under insurance.
 
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Sounds like the TPMS cable has a break in it. Take it back & make them fix it & the hub under insurance.
Talked to the dealer today, Dropping it off for them to repair those things under insurance. They said it was 50/50 weather the wheel bearing was good or not. I told them at that point if they would have called me I would have payed out of pocket for them to change it while they had it all apart LOL. They are also going to look into why the heated mirror on the passenger side no longer works after the accident. Kind of strange because the driver side took all of the impact.. Ill be back in my dealer issued Dodge Dart Loaner car tomorrow haha
 

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Good luck. Hope all gets fixed this time.as for the mirror there must be a harness on the driver's side that got pinched. Probably the same harness that caused the TPMS issue.
 

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I feel your pain. I lost mine in Jan.
 

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Mirror: Probably the guy forgot to plug it in.... Would be easy to do. Or maybe there's corrosion on the outside connector. Or maybe where the copper tang that is attached to the glass was dislodged during the impact. That sounds pretty straight-forward.

Value: How soon before you trade it in? The longer you 'enjoy' it, the more miles and years on the clock, the less the repair will diminish the value. But if you sell it or trade it sooner, then, yeah, there's going to be some value drop. But if you trade it to the dealer you bought it from, maybe they will recognize the quality of the work and thus be able to sell it as they can stand behind the work too.

Rust: I'd squirt a bunch of oil up over the rear wheel wells (on the box) and have the rockers and cab corners rust-proofed. You can get at the wheel wells from the front-side pretty easy. I cleaned mine out last fall and they were full of small stones, rocks, sand. Then I washed *thoroughly* and after a few days drying in the warm summer, I treated with oil a couple times.

These Rams do rust. Now is the time to do some rust-proofing, not 4 years from now. Rust on your truck, in NY, is going to be a big value issue if you have rust developing over the rear box wheel well openings, tailgate, etc. I saw one the other day at a stop light which would have made the perfect poster child for a Rusty Ram. LOL.
 
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Dropped it off at 8am, picked it up at 4:30 PM. They test drove and verified the wheel bearing was bad and changed that out, Drives like new now and makes no noise. They reprogrammed the TPMS sensors, when I left the dealership they all worked fine, after a half hour I got a "Service Tire Pressure monitoring system" message and both left sides stopped reading again. They told me the RS heater element was bad and that the new replacement mirror/element was $45 so they have that on order for me. Slowly making progress on getting it back to 100% LOL
 
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