Military grade aluminum LOL

You Ram and GM boys need to review the crash test before denouncing the "military grade aluminum" Ford.

Pickup crash test.

Measures taken from the crash test dummy in all but the F-150 indicated a likelihood of serious lower leg, ankle and foot injuries.

"Drivers in these pickups would need help freeing their legs from the wreckage following a small overlap crash.

My sympathies when they are trying to free your feet and legs from the wreckage of your trucks with a poor rating.

And I do not want to be customer where those blocks will be used :)
Let's not forget that:)
Alex above hit it right there, anything can be presented the way you want it to be seen.

You can always find ways to make every brand look bad, just adjust the "test" to suit your strength and their weakness. In all fairness every contractor I know has:
1. Spray in bedliner
2. drop in bedliner
3. a bed mat
4. a piece or plywood

Treating a truck bed like the one from a commercial dump truck will destroy every brand, not jus the aluminum ford beds.

This test is a loser, I give it very little merit because of that.

My daughter has a 1/2 ton crew cab truck, yes its her car, the heaviest thing it has seen is an atv. It was cheaper for her to go this route rather than buy a SUV.

I own a new 1 ton it will never see anything other than my camping or home supplies, when I get firewood I have the guy with a real truck deliver the 3 cords all at once. when I need mulch I have that delivered also, sorry but im that guy that likes to keep his pretty dually looking pretty!

ahh and I wanted to see what happens if they were to drop the keys in the bed.............

lol's

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:


You never buy rock by the bulk? Same with fire wood, I pick up a half cord ever spring and it gets chucked in the bed of the turck. No need to lightly set it in worring if I'm going to knock a hole in the bed.

The last time I needed rock in bulk, it would have been too much weight for the half ton I owned at the time, so I had it delivered. Everything since is for smaller projects, where it's just easier to move around in bags.

As for firewood, I buy for the camping season and campfires, not heating. Pre-split and bundled by a friend's son. He makes a few bucks for college, I spend the time saved fishing or hiking with my own kids. Seems to work well for everyone involved.

And heck, now I've got a B&W fifth wheel hitch in the bed. It'll come out in 5 minutes, but lifting the beast is more of an issue for my back. So it stays put until the end of the season, unless something urgent comes up. Not gonna drop a load of anything on top of that hitch, but I can stack a lot around it when I need to.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

jtallon wrote:
Military grade aluminum?

"We get more dents before 9am than most trucks get all day!". :)

That said, I bought my trucks for payload for rving, to haul bikes and lawnmowers, bags of landscaping rock and garden soil, camping gear, and firewood. Aluminum would work fine for me. I'm a weekender guy, not a contractor.

You never buy rock by the bulk? Same with fire wood, I pick up a half cord ever spring and it gets chucked in the bed of the turck. No need to lightly set it in worring if I'm going to knock a hole in the bed.

Again Ford needs to rethink what material they are making their beds out of. Thos is not an opinion it is a fact.

Don

Lets be realistic, as impressive as no damage from mulch is try that with landscape blocks that would normally be loaded via pallet. You cannot honestly think throwing some firewood in the bed of the Ford is going to do great damage? Even GM admitted yes they got punctures in the same tests.

I wonder what happens to these commercials when GM switches to aluminum on their trucks?

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/08/05/gm-fullsize-trucks-aluminum/

I suppose it will be "yeah, but our aluminum is space grade!!"

Reminds me of the 'we have the largest vehicle on earth' suburban commercials. Until the Excursion was introduced and then the commercials were 'yeah, well ours still fit in a standard garage'.

jtallon wrote:
Military grade aluminum?

"We get more dents before 9am than most trucks get all day!". :)

That said, I bought my trucks for payload for rving, to haul bikes and lawnmowers, bags of landscaping rock and garden soil, camping gear, and firewood. Aluminum would work fine for me. I'm a weekender guy, not a contractor.

You never buy rock by the bulk? Same with fire wood, I pick up a half cord ever spring and it gets chucked in the bed of the turck. No need to lightly set it in worring if I'm going to knock a hole in the bed.

Again Ford needs to rethink what material they are making their beds out of. Thos is not an opinion it is a fact.

Don

Big picture...who in the world dumps a front loader full of cinder blocks in the bed of their truck...not many of us.

But, many of us do care about payload, and mileage and other benefits. My bet, you will soon see (Heaven forbid) an aluminum Ram.

There, now I said it and I'm going to be in big trouble of some here on the Forum.