AbitaPro

There’s an image on Facebook featuring a torn aluminum bed of a Ford F-150 pickup truck. Unfortunately it's just an image but no facts. And with today's photo technology, is it real?

In any event steel and aluminum are different metals and react differently to forces applied against them. Bottom line the new F-150 trucks are 5 Star Crash Rated, and that's what's most important!




Either way a new bed is required.

Nighthawk87

Ouch.

Semantics

Many dents will require a new body panel to make it right again. Who knows what happened there but it looks catastrophic enough I cant image steel would have held up and better. Look at the bumper.

strickland604

Other than the obvious wreak. The bed looks to clean to be a tear more like some one cut the bed.

<-KJP->

Whatever happened to that bed was very catastrophic, these beds are amazingly robust and Ford claims they are stronger than steel.


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I know I can sleep well at night

13.

Looks weird. How was there that much damage that looks to have come from the bottom up, but the exhaust is unscathed?

Dalingrin

I doubt it is photoshopped. Several folks on this forum have posted pictures of their wrecks and in many of them the aluminium tears. It looks like to me the aluminium is much more likely to tear than sheet steel. Overall I don't think it matters much because in the cases I've seen the aluminum tear a similar wreck steel sheet metal would have required replacing anyway.

crankinaway

Who cares if it tears. Your alive and your insurance pays for it. It could turn to pixie dust for all I care.

<-KJP->

Have a Freight train or a dump truck hit your steelie truck from that angle and report back to us


You don't even have a 2015 nor are you on planning on getting one, so stop TROLLING

I don't even know why you would even bring a %50 story to the table and get the 2015 owners uneasy about their truck, whats your agenda??????

An63l323

Its photoshopped look at the 4x4 sticker not ripped and the X4 half of the right side is bigger then the left,i dont have a computer to paint it and point it out