Ridgelines leaving the factory

[Halmfamily]

Honda is sending out the 2017 Honda Ridgelines, seen three truck loads leaving the Honda plant in Lincoln, AL this afternoon. They are a nice looking truck, at first glance from the rear they look like the RAM. Hopefully they will have some towing capability. Can't wait to test drive one and maybe trade in the Odyssey on a new Ridgeline for my daily driver.

[IndyCamp]

Why all the hate for the Ridgeline?

Honda doesn't make an HD truck and doesn't pretend to. Why would anyone ask if it could hold 3,000 pounds of gravel? Most half-ton trucks made by the Big 3 can't haul that much either.

You know, people do tow things other than 40-foot fifth wheels.

[RobertRyan]

NC Hauler wrote:

45Ricochet wrote:

fla-gypsy wrote:
If you buy one their monthly percentage will go up dramatically.

LMAO


Ridgeline a truck? Isn't it still a unibody pulling machine?
I'm sure it will do well in the big cities, countryside not so much.

Not my idea of a "truck", but I'm stupid and it IS 2016...everything has changed..a station wagon, or a semblance of that type vehicle is now an SUV or UTE or whatever..so a "truck, be it whatever with a little bed in it, VW pick ups, Subaru Brat or whatever it was called are now trucks..so with a 1500# payload, guess that qualifies it as a bonifide pick up truck...just not in my eyes, but again...I'm stupid:)

UTE in Australia, refers to a Car/Truck, not a small vehicle. A Ute is a F350

[atreis]

goducks10 wrote:
That's impressive. Now if they just made a 5th hitch for one.

If you can put a fiver hitch in the new one, it would easily handle one of these fifth wheel trailers (Scamp 19') with capacity to spare.

[BenK]

A 'can do'...not a 'doing it for a long time'...

Overloaded will NOT have the wheels instantly fall off...just sooner...

Of course Jeremiah's picture reminds of this picture that has been posted here
and other forums for years...a true story to boot !!!


vwoverloaded overloaded

Snopes...Wood You Do This?

snopes wrote:

The stupidity of some people in this world never fails to amaze me. This attached picture is real — not doctored in any way — and was taken last week in Waldorf, MD by a Transportation Supervisor for a company that delivers building materials for 84 Lumber. When he saw it there in the parking lot of IHOP, he went and bought a camera to take pictures. The car is still running as can be witnessed by the exhaust.

A woman is either asleep or otherwise out in the front seat passenger side. The guy driving it was over jogging up and down on Rt. 925 in the background. The witnesses said their physical state was OTHER than normal and the police just shook their heads in amazement. The driver finally came back after the police were there and was getting down at the back to cut the twine around the load. They told him to get back until it was taken off.

The materials were loaded at Home Depot. The Home Depot store manager made the customer sign a waiver before loading. Both back tires are trashed. The back shocks were driven up through the floorboard. On the roof are many 2X4s, 4X4s and OSL sheets of lumber. The load isn't all that meets the eye either. In the back seat were ten 80-pound bags of concrete! They estimated the load weight at 3000 lbs. The car is a VW Jetta with FL plates and the guy said he was headed for Annapolis!

[Bedlam]

It looks like when I when was building a retaining wall. 12x7 garden block @ 22.5 lbs/ea and 144 on a pallet. All I had was a Mazda pickup and folding Harbor Freight trailer. 2000 lbs went into the the bed and the remaining on my trailer. I did this for 10 trips because I had no room for a delivery all at once. I would build the wall emptying the trailer and truck to it again and again. It took 2.5 weekends to set up that wall and I actually looked forward to weekday work after a weekend of hard labor.

[blt2ski]

45Ricochet wrote:
Who wants to shovel a yard of gravel out of any truck anyway :H
I gave that idea up years ago, but maybe the younger guys still do it.

I hand off loaded 5400 lbs of one man rock out of 2500 one day, went back the next and got 3900! then wheel barrowed it to the back yard. Did the same with 11 yds of topsoil......a few dozen plants......

Then got paid to do so! Can not always get a bobcat or equal into a yard! or space. So 1-3 yd loads in a pickumup is the only way to do things.

30 sacks time 60 or 80 lbs sacks is 1800-2400 lbs. Probably on the very high end of what that ridgeline could do, but doable for short jaunts. No different than the 5400 lbs I put in the back of my 2500! It should be noted, my 2500 is a reg cab, with a whopping three options on it. Weighs under 5000 lbs out of the factory! 5400 with me in it, and a pipe/lumber rack etc Door sticker on this truck is 300 lbs shy of my old crew cab dually dmax! 3800 vs 4100!

Marty

[mogman]

RAS43 wrote:
Couldn't put a 5th wheel hitch in the older Ridgeline as the bed is fiberglass. Maybe the new style is different. But the load capacity isn't high enough for a 5th wheel anyway.

The bed is steel. There is a composite plastic material used as a bed liner.

[RAS43]

Couldn't put a 5th wheel hitch in the older Ridgeline as the bed is fiberglass. Maybe the new style is different. But the load capacity isn't high enough for a 5th wheel anyway.

[goducks10]

That's impressive. Now if they just made a 5th hitch for one.

[jerem0621]

Wife took this picture yesterday while we were headed out on vacation...

Quikrete concrete in 80lb bag form...best I could tell...asked my wife after the picture was taken to count how many bags she saw...she said 10 and it looks like its 3 deep...

That's a job for a 3/4 or 1 ton truck. Little Ridgeline look like it was under some pressure to say the least. Lol.



So yes, the Ridgeline is great for its design parameters...but just like anything else...don't ask it to do more than it was designed too...

This fella would have had no problem with a decently sized utility trailer and this load.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

[kw_00]

I guess it could be a city weekend warrior vehicle. Not for me by any means, but if I had to own a newer mid sized truck I would go with the GM twins or Tacoma.

[Halmfamily]

45Ricochet wrote:
Who wants to shovel a yard of gravel out of any truck anyway :H
I gave that idea up years ago, but maybe the younger guys still do it.

I thought that's what dump trucks are for. Order 25 tons at a time, it's cheaper and they deliver it for free.

[eluwak]

45Ricochet wrote:
Who wants to shovel a yard of gravel out of any truck anyway :H
I gave that idea up years ago, but maybe the younger guys still do it.

My folks are in their mid 70's, and put me to shame regularly :B

[45Ricochet]

Who wants to shovel a yard of gravel out of any truck anyway :H
I gave that idea up years ago, but maybe the younger guys still do it.