Preys On The Souls Of Lesser Trucks

"MtrRider Just Wants Doritos" (MtrRider) 01/21/2014 at 05:00 • Filed to: None

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CPT Speedbump > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 05:09

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Until it bends or cracks its chassis.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > CPT Speedbump 01/21/2014 at 05:16

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Shall I go into detail about that? I could write books.

JustWaitingForAMate > CPT Speedbump 01/21/2014 at 05:24

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Linkage.

Simple summary :

YEE HAW LETS JUMP DIS HERE TRUCK OFF THE BIGGEST THING WE CAN FIND CLEETUS! A-HUYK-HUYK-HUYK....OH NOES WE BROKE THE DURNED THING! LETS BLAME FORD!

CPT Speedbump > JustWaitingForAMate 01/21/2014 at 05:33

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And in the mean time some teenager jumps his old tacoma off the same jump and the truck ends up being fine ;)

CPT Speedbump > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 05:34

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If you want something to do then upto you ;) I wouldn't be able to read it till later as its work time -.-

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > CPT Speedbump 01/21/2014 at 05:40

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Video description

Steering rack? done. Oil pan? done. Bent frame? done.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > CPT Speedbump 01/21/2014 at 05:42

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I wont be able to write it till later. But if I do I guarantee nobody with a functioning brain will think the Raptor has a weak frame after reading it.

CPT Speedbump > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 05:42

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Note how i said "old tacoma" key word, old :P

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > CPT Speedbump 01/21/2014 at 05:43

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Well the video was posted in 2010, making the truck at least 4 years old.

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > JustWaitingForAMate 01/21/2014 at 08:40

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Thanks for the read :)

Stupidru > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 08:49

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Are they really that bad?

Deven > Stupidru 01/21/2014 at 09:34

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The first year model they were. Some people went desert running (which is what they were built for) and came back with bent frames where the bed met the cab. Granted they might have done some small jumps but it shouldn't have bent when it was being used for what it was built.

CPT Speedbump > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 11:03

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Aka, a young truck, I was meaning like...80's

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Stupidru 01/21/2014 at 17:51

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The Raptor has 6 inches of uptravel, 6 inches of down travel. If you hit a 8-12 inch dirt kicker (a curb) at 80-120 MPH (speeds they admitted to doing) on a road they had not pre-run, you will break your truck. I'm going to write a longer piece about it, but the Raptor has a perfectly strong frame. However, everything has a breaking point and it is better to bend a frame, which doesn't affect the driveability of the vehicle, than it is to break, say, a shock mount when you're a hundred miles via dirt road to the nearest Ford dealer.

Not to mention, it's a $800 to repair the frame at a dealer and you maintain your warranty intact. A single rear Raptor shock costs around $700, so bending the shocks would be much more expensive.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Deven 01/21/2014 at 17:53

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Don't talk about what you don't know.

Dusty Ventures > Stupidru 01/21/2014 at 18:02

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To TL;DR MtrRider, they're not bad at all, they're fantastic. The problem was all the people who bought one of these...

...thought they had bought one of these...

...so they drove it like this...

...then when the frames bent they insisted it was clearly a defect in Ford's design.

Deven > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 19:57

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Can't tell if sarcastic or genuine irritation?

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Deven 01/21/2014 at 20:56

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Genuine irritation.

Deven > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 01/21/2014 at 21:01

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Why the ones after 2011 are fine it was the few 2010 models that had the problem. Don't get me wrong if I could have a new one I would but the first models had a problem of bending.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Deven 01/21/2014 at 21:18

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The 2010-2012 trucks have identical suspension and frame.

TheOnelectronic > JustWaitingForAMate 01/22/2014 at 16:10

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FERD*