Ford aluminum truck beds prove haters wrong are cheaper to repair than steel by stephen edelstein may 20 2019 when a redesigned ford f 150 pickup truck arrived in late 2014 with aluminum.
Ford aluminum truck bed test.
Line x solved the issue.
If your ford s bed does not completely correspond to your purposes you have an opportunity to right this wrong.
This difference can then be added onto the truck s payload capacity.
These tests lead to ford selecting a thicker aluminum for the bed floor and redesigning an access panel.
But for the most part the aluminum passed with flying colors.
An aluminum truck bed typically weighs up to 40 less than a steel bed of the same strength.
Our 2017 f150 bed got beat up just by using it everyday.