Best website to purchase front end parts... 08' Tundra

I need new fenders, bumper, grill, hood/latch, trans cooler, sway bar and the links radiator. What's a good website that will deliver undented, painted, and in a timely manner and won't cost me a ton.
Thanks in advance,
Ted

 

out of topic:

can we see pics of that regular cab

 

What happened? Did you grill some venison?

 

Damn that sucks!

Hope everybody's ok!

 

I’d go used. Car-part.com.
2007-2013 should fit. If you communicate you want the whole front clip.
Hardware included. Be ready to hunt down plastic clips from Amazon that replace all the little plug pieces that just have to be replaced. Just curious, where are you?

 

Buy proper trim removal tools. The plastic ones. Are you doing the rebuild yourself?

 

Yes, well a buddy of mine is. What is a good website to get new painted parts?

 

I can only guess by this question you are new to this stuff. (I'm going to be facetious, the only way to get new painted parts is
to buy a new painted truck.)

A: If you went to a dealer of body panels and parts, they only come with cheap primer meant to
protect them while sitting on the shelf waiting for sale. To do this properly you can buy new parts and take them directly to
a painter that you've chosen and have them sanded, primed properly and painted as individual parts. This will guarantee you
the absolute best result in repairing your truck. Do NOT assemble the truck with these newly bought primed panels and bolt
them all on, then sand prime and paint. Everything under a bolt or hinge or hard to reach will not get primed, painted and
therefore preserved and it will rust and decay.

B: Look thru used parts lists. IF you have a really good wrecking yard close at hand they all share a huge nationwide inventory
of parts from wrecks. Quite frankly this is where most collision repair shops get their 'new' parts for your Prius after you drove
into a fire hydrant. They can be inventoried and cataloged extremely accurately. I'd suggest go in and take pics of your truck
with you and request as I said earlier 'entire front clip' for 2007-2013 Tundra. They are all the same. You would be miraculously
lucky to find it in Black. That being said, those parts are covered in factory paint and prep. NO bodyshop aside from restoration
specialist is going to provide better prepared panels. These you can assemble onto your truck, say in Silver. Then the truck
could be painted black to match. OR you could repaint the rest of the cab and box to match the front clip? Sounds weird, but
it might be cheaper to paint that way and you'd get better paint coverage. That's your call

I've done several vehicles both ways, I'm no pro but I do have experience and I don't have a lot of money. So I know the value
of money spent doing it each way. I hope this helps. I wish you luck.
There is a guy here who went so far as to swap later - 2016? as 2014-2019 front clip and box can be interchanged so you could
also make a reg cab short box that never existed from the factory, which is cool too.

 

Worth a read.
The 4 month $27k 2007 RCSB TRD Pro build (Full 2014+ conversion, Front Clip, Interior, Bed) | Toyota Tundra Forum

 

Just sell it to me as is and you wont have to worry about it...

 

I like that, sneaky. But me first!

 

@teddyballgame13 I had no idea. Give them a call.

Tundra | Painted OEM Parts

 

Thank you Cruiserpilot and yes i'm new to this. I would usually go with a buddy to a junk yard for my ancient minivan. This truck has only 90k miles on it and I'd like to keep it for a long time.

 

Cool! To be honest I’ve found Tundra’s to be very easy to work on. Don’t forget to get a set of short picks with straight, 90 deg, and curves ends. Really helpful at opening the plastic retaining clips on everything. Be careful. Always pull straight out with any plastic components, go gently. There are various inner tabs and double clips that break really easily, very fragile.

 

I'm going through almost the exact same thing as you. Grilled a buck on Saturday.

I'm doing a Sequoia front end with the TRD Pro grille.

 

So you have both now read the thread on post #10 I made. Your options are pretty open.