willyqbc

And 5 years later the Chebby is rusted through.
No liner and we dump bricks into our trucks, I don't think so !

photomankc

Working with AL, that is not surprising. Aluminum will shear easier and is less elastic in general than steel.

It's a valid point I think but easily countered by protecting the bed and not dumping concrete blocks into the bed from maximum height on a front loader. The toolbox is not surprising either. That's pretty much a worst case. Heavy object with sharp point impacting sheet aluminum. The ribs in the AL bed will stiffen it in general but a weighted, pointed object dropped onto it they are not going to defend against.

photomankc

Well..... then *OUR* aluminum is better and more awesome, of course.

Gx2Lariat

Yeah, why don't they show how that Chevy holds up in a overlap crash test?

FX4*

I saw it this morning and can't believe it. They are obviously paid from GM and pretending not an actors. They are real people and best actors.

I accidentally dropped boxes of 17X17 floor tiles in the bed and nothing happened, not even a scratch (with a spray-in bedliner).

SCORGE

Ahhh GM. And to think people are actually going to base buying one off of this

photomankc

And that's the thing. This is something that is a non-issue, but is technically true. Nobody is going to do that kind of abusive stuff to a truck bed without a liner of some kind. That would be fairly retarded, unless you simply enjoy watching rust and corrosion develop. I'd wager too many more of those events and the steel would have holes too.

You can be certain that this was carefully calculated. Just enough weight and corners to insure the AL tear without risking a hole in the steel.

This is just a basic and very well-known property of AL. It is easily scratched, it does not deform as readily as steel but it also does not recover from deformation like steel either. In impacts it will tear more readily than steel. Protect the bed like any rational person would do before dumping sharp stones and throwing full tool-boxes into it and this will be of little concern.

Crazy Canuk

Notice how after they dropped the bricks in from ten feet they didn't close the tailgates and do a 0-60, fuel economy test over several miles or crash test with the trucks. The only lesson I learned here is do not load bricks in my unprotected bed with a bobcat.

SCORGE

Well, my 07 has a steel bed. I guess I'm just gonna start dropping **** in there from crazy heights. Chebby says it's ok to do this

Gx2Lariat

Meanwhile over on the Chevy forum...

[while flipping mullet over the shoulder with back of hand] "Hell yeah!!, you tell'em bearded metrosexual dude!"

"Jus'in like yous did wit dat man stepin com-mershal. Show'd dem. Dees bad *** Chevy's don'ts needin no steps to scampr in the bed. Yalls jus'in cuttin a hole in dat bumpr that onlys saves me's like twos inches in reech. Much bestes idear. "