Bed can hit cab and cause damage

I think the engineer mentioned it may be an issue with the composite bed, they flex, they really flex when you put them off camber. If you put weight in them or on top of the bed rails, bed stiffeners would probably be a good idea. Stiffeners are also a good idea if you haul dirt or any materials that put any stress on the bedsides, you will know when it puts a little stress by the increasing in the tailgate gap..

Compotites are tough, but the end of the day they are plastic, and they can flex. Just google tacoma composite bed broken and look at images.

 

If it flexed like that by pulling it backwards to get out of that rut, then I guess it will do the same if you try to go up an incline or big bump in reverse.
I guess one could stuff a couple of pillows where it meets the cab to cushion it. Lol

 

Might be late commenting here but he had room to get around that hole. What a douche.

 

Hes a moron. Off roading is not barreling through shit. He has 0 skills. No wonder the truck gets ruined. That's the guy that runs his truck into wheel high water then wonders why his rear differential is shut after he drives home.

 

what's up with the rubber boots hanging between the cab and bed? Is that a redneck trophy?

 

agree 100%

 

I think you are right. He is a retard. Saying "the gap closed".... If that's the case he should have damage on the back of his driver door too because that "gap closed" at the same point. It's wash out from the bright sun.

 

I had a 1997 f-150 double cab that had this type of damage. The truck had 300k miles on it when I sold it. Never was an issue. Touch up paint and keep driving.

 

I see that a lot. Usually guys that come across mud for work or whatever and they just keep them back there for when they need them. Their too muddy to keep on the cab so they leave them upside down like that so they won’t get wet from rain.

 

it is exactly that.

we see it here on the shore with guys who work on or around the water.

 

Also the mud rinses down to the ground not all in the bed when you put them like that.

Maybe his boots got pinched in there?

 

His boots caused the dents!

 

We don’t know what it can’t do because we don’t know how it happened. I don’t buy that exposé video at all.


I completely agree with test to failure. However that has to be done intentionally so you know why the damage is occurring. This dipshit didn’t even realize it happened. And, I’m not going to support some idiots YouTube channel so he can make money while he trashes a new pickup.

 

The damage came from the recovery. There's a pic with no damage right before mud recovery.

 

But is there a pic with damage right after the recovery? He showed a pic of it at Toyota but I couldn't see the dent there. He didn't mention what happened between his recovery and that Toyota visit either.

While we are at it we should start a thread about how the bumpers fall off on 2022s, it happened to this guy. The grilles fall apart too, happened to this guy. 2022s get stuck in mud really easily too, happened to this guy.

This guy isn't making any money off youtube. His views are way too low. He's just doing his best to kill a Toyota and being a weird creepy fucker.

 

no bumpers or grill fell off during the Super Bowl Tundra commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQIz5pkwwg

 

Am I supposed to know who the black woman and the metro sexual are?

 

lol...I think he split the front of his bed apart, one of the videos you can see that the bed sides are not how they should be (plastic not metal skins)

It looked kinda like there was a lot of upwards torque going on when it was being pulled back and it looks like most of it was on one side. There was probably just enough to cause a twist in the bed and seperating it.

 

No, that was Tommy Lee's point at the end.

 

I am not touching the "message" of this commercial. Not on this forum.
I will say
Someone said on this forum recently, that the new Tundra is no longer targeting construction types, and going after the general SUV group.
IMO - We will know when this transition is "complete" as a group, when pickup trucks are no longer exempt from the gas guzzler tax, as they are right now, because they are categorized as "work" vehicles to qualify for the exemption.

 

You're not touching the message that the Tundra is the new hot thing and you need one if you're going to keep up with the Joneses?

I thought only heavy duty pickups were exempt.

 

Oh I know the message. But did they achieve the new Joneses status ---all reviews point to nothing ground breaking --- (except for beds, bumpers, grills, etc...) in this thread...8^0
JK but maybe not......

Need to look into the gas guzzler tax for Ontario maybe a local thing.

 

Dude has more money than brains apparently, who does that too a brand new truck!

 

Ya, what's a gas guzzler tax?

 

Now im curious if people in Canada get better fuel economy than people in the US because speed limits are lower.

 

Been around for a while. 2 forms of it - 1 federal excise tax based on fuel efficiency then each province may or may not add their own on top ( I believe)

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-ag.../2017-list-vehicles-associated-tax-rates.html

 

Not exactly
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/05/23/Canada-Cars-Gas-Guzzlers/

 

Cool. I guess we've always purchased vehicles that weren't considered has guzzlers. I see the 2017 Sequoia on there. I assume the 2017 Tundra was exempt. Interesting stuff. Thanks!

 

No its because gas prices are higher so we drive slower to conserve. *^0
Except every younger millennial i know (not me 8^0 ) does 70 mph + especially on the 404 above Newmarket - Ontario's autobahn

@gmcguire7220
thank u for that. All I remember is the salesman telling me I did not have to pay on my 2018 when I bought it.

 

Interesting. In the U.S. gas guzzler taxes are built into the per gallon taxes. Buy more gas, pay higher prices. To add a gas guzzler tax is double taxing. We do however pay higher registration fees for vehicles considered over 10k weight. In Louisiana, We have to pay an outrageous registration fees.
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