Glad the family is ok!!!!!!
Sorry for your Mav loss! (I think the replacement of the bed, panels, electronics, painting and lighting will take it over into the totaled category.)
As far as the Jeep... SHAME ON THAT DRIVER!!!!
I had one with that lump (they are commonly referred to as "stingers") for the entire 10+ years I had my Jeep. They are not illegal in FL or VA, but that doesn't make them safe or legal. The real point behind them is for slow rock crawling... incase you flip. If done right, it puts you on your side instead of your roof.
Bolts to factory connection points, usually. That looks like a welded 1 piece, so it probably won't fall under any flagging requirements (in FL anything protruding more than 2 feet that is not permanently attached must be flagged). If the Jeep is lifted, you can also probably have them get in trouble for minimum height of a bumper on a vehicle.
My insurance also didn't mind it when the neighbor came home either high or drunk one night and plowed into my Jeep. 3 feet to the drivers side was my wife's car... if it wasn't so close her car car would have been totaled. The front end of my Jeep was shifted over 2 feet toward her car. Called the hit and run into the police... that os when I found out it was the neighbor, but no one could be connected to driving it... so no charges, but no one would drive it again. The car that hit me shattered both windshields and front and rear windows along with the A, B and C pillars on the drivers side... yeah that fast in a residential neighborhood, and there wad about 5 feet between my Jeep and the sidewalk. Think of the speed needed to cause a 2500lb car move a parked 4500 lb Jeep over 2 feet to the side. Yeah, rattle can of paint and new steering stabilizer was all my Jeep needed.
*all information is relative to Florida*
Let me know if you need more "ammo"... LOL.
Sorry for your Mav loss! (I think the replacement of the bed, panels, electronics, painting and lighting will take it over into the totaled category.)
As far as the Jeep... SHAME ON THAT DRIVER!!!!
I had one with that lump (they are commonly referred to as "stingers") for the entire 10+ years I had my Jeep. They are not illegal in FL or VA, but that doesn't make them safe or legal. The real point behind them is for slow rock crawling... incase you flip. If done right, it puts you on your side instead of your roof.
Bolts to factory connection points, usually. That looks like a welded 1 piece, so it probably won't fall under any flagging requirements (in FL anything protruding more than 2 feet that is not permanently attached must be flagged). If the Jeep is lifted, you can also probably have them get in trouble for minimum height of a bumper on a vehicle.
My insurance also didn't mind it when the neighbor came home either high or drunk one night and plowed into my Jeep. 3 feet to the drivers side was my wife's car... if it wasn't so close her car car would have been totaled. The front end of my Jeep was shifted over 2 feet toward her car. Called the hit and run into the police... that os when I found out it was the neighbor, but no one could be connected to driving it... so no charges, but no one would drive it again. The car that hit me shattered both windshields and front and rear windows along with the A, B and C pillars on the drivers side... yeah that fast in a residential neighborhood, and there wad about 5 feet between my Jeep and the sidewalk. Think of the speed needed to cause a 2500lb car move a parked 4500 lb Jeep over 2 feet to the side. Yeah, rattle can of paint and new steering stabilizer was all my Jeep needed.
*all information is relative to Florida*
Let me know if you need more "ammo"... LOL.
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