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I've had Happijac on my truck for over fifteen years - no problem, and I shifted the 2003 HJ to the 2015 Chev when I bought it - needed a little modification tho'.

I had a 'fright' issue when I tried to bolt the rear tie-downs on that weak bumper. So, designed an anchor system that sits in the hitch ... and then anchor the rear to that... I'm bringing the TC back to the house Saturday to do some maintenance and will photo the anchor and post here - works really well ... the front is solid tho, and has the horizontal bar across the bed and bolted thru, so no issues there in all this time ... Camper is over 3000 lbs Lance 845.

While $5000 sounds high Ive seen pictures of some serious damage caused by bed mounted 'ears' failing.
I had pulled our bed mounts off to have blasted and re-coated after 3 years but didn't reinstall and went to Torklift due to the damage the bed mounts were causing..

The steel 'ears' simply flexing into bed corners.
But everyone has their selling points & weak points. I wouldn't call it bashing though pointing out what could be avoided.

trail-explorer wrote:
I sure wouldn't want to use bed mounted tie-downs on the new fangled "allyouminium" truck beds.

If you go to the Happijac website, they don't even list 2017 or 2018 F250 or F350 trucks with aluminum beds in their application guide.

I've had Happijac tie downs in 3 different Ford trucks over the last 22 years hauling a +4k lb truck camper and never had a single problem, but I would not want to use them on a truck with an aluminum bed. In my opinion, there should not be any trucks with aluminum beds........or auto trannies for that matter. Steel beds and manual trannies, that's the ticket.

Brad

I sure wouldn't want to use bed mounted tie-downs on the new fangled "allyouminium" truck beds.

I can see $5000 or more to repair a truck bed damaged by bed mounted tie-downs.

I've also seen bent bumpers from that same "other company's" button thinger mounted on bumpers as the spot to tie down the rear of a camper.

d3500ram wrote:
In my opinion, if a product is worth it's salt, then let it stand out on its own superiority as opposed to bashing the competition however subtle it might be.

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In my opinion, if a product is worth it's salt, then let it stand out on its own superiority as opposed to bashing the competition however subtle it might be.

Email came about 30 minutes ago.

I know new for 2018 model can be expensive, but I added bed to my 2006 dually that was originally utility and found used bed for around $1000.
That was for dually, what was hard to find in California.
Have seen lot of new truck beds in other states for cheap, where they convert new trucks to custom flatbeds.
Either way, the $5000 bed fix fits on the same shelf what $900 government toilet seats.

Truck beds are expensive. To replace a bed with new parts, labor to install and paint, easy 5K.

Bill