Anyone notice.........

For all the badmouthing GM does about aluminum bodies, that would be interesting...

And everyone I know that puts loads of bricks or rocks, or toolboxes in the bed of their truck (don't care WHAT brand) puts a sheet of 1/2" plywood down to protect the bed.

I believe GM will go aluminum to save weight and up MPG. SAR is right..load a PU and not protect the bed? Crazy.

When I watch the ad, I see it as them differentiating the aluminum bed from their steel bed. Not anything else really to do with aluminum.

We had a hail storm earlier this year that totaled my wife car, mainly due to all the aluminum panels - hood, roof, trunk deck. They needed to be replaced instead of repaired.

I know Al is the future of cars, but that doesn't mean you have to like it.

SAR Tracker wrote:
And everyone I know that puts loads of bricks or rocks, or toolboxes in the bed of their truck (don't care WHAT brand) puts a sheet of 1/2" plywood down to protect the bed.

And sets them down carefully. They are also usually stacked on a pallet.

Ide love to see the customers face when he gets his load ruined bricks. "No good! Take them back!" LOL

GM is planning on staying with a steel bed but use Al. for the exterior panels.

If aluminum is such an inferior material , Why is the new corvette frame made out of it

steve-n-vicki wrote:
If aluminum is such an inferior material , Why is the new corvette frame made out of it

Desperate attempt to try to keep up with Porsche? :B

GM is differentiating materials for the bed. Nothing else. I agree with them on that part.

Been awhile since I put a sheet of plywood in the.bed of my.trucks. Usually a stay in liner, Bed liner before spray ins. Plywood be for.that......that takes me back to before 1980!

I've used my trucks in construction, loading pallets of bricks, pavers, loading multiple loads of rock, soil and munches daily, along with.yard debris for rigs doing maintenance. Plywood makes it harder to clean the bed, and if you haul like I do, does not last but a month!

ALL bed type materials have plus and minuses, you have to choose what will be best for you.

Marty

I love it because Ford owners say Al. won't corrode. Right! Take a look at old airplane parts that have never been exposed to salt. They still corrode.