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Hitting the new Aluminium F150 with a Sledge Hammer
http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/watch-what-happens-when-you-sl...
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Hook
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Part 2 is also up, covering the repairs by the dealer. As expected, aluminum is more expensive to repair than steel.
But I was surprised at how resilient the aluminum was to the sledge.
http://youtu.be/Um7UpIA4X0s?list=PLsSQoIGhBLpTEbV4Y5GFNbmvvh...
[Edited on 1-27-2015 by Hook]
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I drive an older baby truck (Mazda B4000) and often consider upgrading to a newer grownup truck, so this series of videos caught my attention.
Spoiler alert: The fancy new taillights with blind spot warning cost $897 to replace. Each.
A standard taillight? $105.
Ouch... (I'm still watching the video for the body repair cost.)
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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durrelllrobert
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sledge hammer maybe but not barbed wire. years ago i was driving a friends J@ Allard, a British sports car with an aluminum body. I spun out and went
through a barbed wire fence that opened it up like a can of sardines.
Bob Durrell
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Quote: Originally posted by Whale-ista  | I drive an older baby truck (Mazda B4000) and often consider upgrading to a newer grownup truck, so this series of videos caught my attention.
Spoiler alert: The fancy new taillights with blind spot warning cost $897 to replace. Each.
A standard taillight? $105.
Ouch... (I'm still watching the video for the body repair cost.) |
think those new taillights will be all the rage among thief's now????
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Genecag
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Impressed that the body took that hit like a champ!!
Wonder what the cost would be in a Mexican shop...
Make it a Great Day!!
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Sweetwater
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The issue with aluminum vs steel is on how each handles directional stress. Any fabricator or design engineer can tell you that steel is
multidirectional and therefore amenable to repair and welding. Aluminum....not so much.....
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msteve1014
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GOOD body shops have been repairing aluminum panels for 50 years. Cheap shops in TJ, not so much.
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willardguy
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they didn't get many cobra's in to practice on? 
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chuckie
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I owned an XKCM jaguar, purchased as a total loss from British Motor Car in Palo Alto, when I was in school there. Bill Burnett was able to make it
driveable....as a ONE door by fabbing new ugly panels out of steel. Kinda interesting,entering from the passenger side to drive it. The damage was not
that extensive to the eye, but NO ONE would take it on...hence it was totaled...LUMINUM...Like the idea, not the cost...
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msteve1014
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I have a MBZ 280 sl. Aluminum doors, hood, and trunk lid. Six months after restoring it the driver side door was caved in. A GOOD body shop made it
like new, no filler. It can be done. It takes skill.
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