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Truck cruelty (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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Tumblr post: "20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo" with a photo of a pickup truck infront of a much larger pickup truck. Reply: "it's so sad that they've been selectively bred for size and aesthetics over their health. look at that pushed-in muzzle—there’s no way the one on the right can breathe properly"
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I recently lost my '05 f150 that I used for work to frame rot, so I got a '17. I've put two holes in the bed, through the bed liner, and I haven't even been treating it that bad. It's almost as though Ford doesn't want you to use it for work harder than carrying your yeti between kids baseball games.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    At some point they changed the bed from being made out of steel to aluminum, and you can really tell.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think that was in 2014, yeah. I get it honestly, they're much lighter and they won't rust. But the bed should always be steel in my opinion.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I think the problem is they try to make it the same thickness as the sheet metal from the steel bed. If they made it 1/4" thick like the aluminum side step plates on a Bobcat it wouldn't be a problem and it'd still probably be lighter.

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