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