Hit a Speed Bump then "Crunch"
I hit a unmarked speed bump at about 25mph or so on a main st (by a school. The truck & camper bounced pretty hard. I pulled the rear mount down about a 1/2" or so & disformed the aluminum trim & side...
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Airstream67 wrote:
Good point made. It's sometimes discouraging to pay the fuel bill for our heavy iron chariots, but they are as tough as a hammer.
They do not have a problem bending them here, US Pickups have to be beefed up to take the hammering they get here.
Joerg68 wrote:
Just be glad the frame of your truck is still straight. With the often overloaded smallish pickups over here in Europe, the energy would have likely bent the frame above the rear axle
That is the problem in using a pickup bed rather than a Utility bed for Asian sourced Pickups. You do not have that problem here. Too many stresses on the chassis with a Pickup bed.
