dburks123
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Okay so I have a 2019 ram Big Horn crew cab, I was pulling my bobcat trailer weighs about $3,800 lb empty and I was hauling some office furniture for someone to the scrap yard. The crane operator put the grapple down on the front of my trailer extremely hard for no reason at all but that's either here nor there( what a moron). Then as you can see from the pictures the damage it bent the inside of the my box there's a hump where my axle is in the box it humps up it's not creased there's some very very small faint ripples on the side one by the gas door and then one a little farther back in the passenger side I looked underneath I didn't see much of anything because it's hard to tell of anything unless you take the box off it's at the shop now they say they can fix it for less than the value of the vehicle which I find hard to believe considering the value of the vehicles only 19,000 it goes down the road crooked it's heating up both tires on the driver side front and back now when I drive down the road I'm just worried after they fix it now it's still going to do the same thing and I don't know what I'm going to do I don't think I'll ever be able to pull trailers again or nothing. Wondering if anyone has any experience with having their frame straightened and if it'll fix the issues I'm talking about I have a feeling they're going to end up having to replace the box so far they're saying they don't have to they're going to try and straighten the frame with the box on and pull it up but I don't see it happen and there's just no way cuz the whole thing is kittywampus. They were even saying if they had to replace the frame they could still do that and be under the value of my truck and I don't see how that's possible at all I guess they're saying if there wasn't no paint that had to be done unless they have to replace the box then that's like 8,000 with paint and then they still have to straighten out the frame they have to replace the trailer hitch I'm just confused I thought that when these frames got bent they were done.
