[AT] Big Truck Pickups

[Mike M]

Well, It'll be a long time before I buy a new pickup at the prices they
are at now. I have a 2010 Silverado with 110,000 on it, and the rust is
beginning in all the suspected spots, the rear wheel well being the main
culprit. It'll be a fender flapper in a couple of years, but as long as
it's reliable I'll keep it. I've heard rumors, not first hand
information that body shops are having a hard time learning how to work
on the aluminum body panels. Sure would be nice to have a truck that
doesn't rust out before it's service life is though. You guys in the
south many not have this problem, due to little or no salt ever being
used.  What bothers me is that my wife's Camry has 70,000 more miles on
it, gets driven every day in the salty slush, zero rust.

Mike M

On 11/29/2019 2:39 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
> James, that video of the "empty" toolbox punching a hole in the
> aluminum bed floor of a Ford was faked. Notice that it is no longer
> shown on TV? That is why. GM made a big misjudgement on that one.
>
> Phil in TX
>
>
> On 11/29/2019 9:29 AM, James Peck wrote:
>> James AT List Member and advocate of upgradeable tractor vocational
>> training (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com); I have rented a Home Depot flatbed
>> pickup twice to carry items that would not have fit in a pickup box.
>> I am very impressed with them. The flat beds are probably much more
>> puncture proof than those aluminum ford pickup boxes. There used to
>> be a commercial of someone dropping a tool box into a ford pickup bed
>> and tearing a hole in the bed.
>>
>> https://www.homedepot.com/c/Truck_Rental
>>
>> You could probably move a tractor with a rental truck and trailer.
>>
>>   I have seen 1/2 ton pickup beds where the stamped floor rails are
>> scalloped between the laterals due to loads carried. My question is
>> whether the F450 Ford or aftermarket F650 have bed floors that will
>> carry the rated load as well as a wood floor would. The hot rudders
>> have embraced wood pickup bed floors for esthetic reasons. They
>> likely are the higher capacity option.
>>
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