So a trip to the city dump with a tone of remodeling crap filled my 8ft bed. I had some teenagers helping me out (I'm old hehehe) and NO ONE KNOWS how but the top of my bed rail now has a nice lil dent in it. Didn't damage the paint just a dent. Anyone ever 'pop' out a dent like that beefer? How To? To thoes of you that bought new rigs what was your first dent and were?
Dents!!! Shame on you for saying such a thing! rotfl Actually, I did dent the wheel well in the bed when an NP203 rolled into it in a turn. Popped it out so you can't even tell it's there with a dead blow mallet.
Just about everyone I know with a GM 99-up truck have dented there the same way. Must be really thin metal. I can jump up and down on my bedside and have no dents. What's it called; Value Engineering?
I'll let you know when I get my first one. Check that, I'll let you know when I cause my first one.:doah: Every one of my cars I made the first dent or scratch doing something stupid.
Ya I think the bed is somewhat tinny or thin. I had a huge roll of carpet in the bed the other week and I ratchet straped the end to push the roll against the back of the bed and the damn thing bowed toward the cab. When I released the carpet pressure it went straight again but man sure seams flimsy. Oh well it's a truck and I use my trucks, can't stay new forever now can they
Hey Burt, Funny you mentioned dents because I think "drunk guy" put a small dent in my bed when he was leaning against it taking a leak that night at your house. Or at least the next morning I had a small dent on my bed on the passenger side right where he was leaning up against my truck. Damn drunk people! rotfl Oh well.
hahaha, 'leaning' on the bed should not dent nothing in theroy?? Maby he relized he was leaning on a Dodge and started beating it:doah: So your bed is somewhat thin too egh? They probly do that to cut the weight down??
Here is a tip for you GM owners. Don't stand on the bed side! The inner skin is not that thin, but the outer skin that goes over the top is! Just standing on it can dent it! Apparently that was part of the weight saving effort to increase payload by reducing curb weight and to offset the extra beef being put into the more rigid frames and such. Other makers are also following suit.
Go itwaytogo I still like to think of my rig as a 'work' truck, I know it's nice and all but for me I am not gonna trip too much if I dent it or scratch it. I still take care when working in and out of it but stuff happens so no worries...waytogo
Oh, I very much use mine as a truck. But I try to keep the outside near flawless. And the Linex keeps the inside nice as long as I don't let Dana 60s and 203s go rolling around when the straps come loose. Both of which have happened, but the Dana 60 left hardly a mark while the 203 made a sort of "dish" in the flat part of the wheel well (flat of course being weak).
I laid my keys on my bumper and dropped my tailgate 2 days after buying the dodge. That was good... But I got side swiped in a parking lot a few weeks back and now have a red fender/bumper :doah:
i rarely see a truck without a dent in the tailgate. i mean you can see a super clean truck but most of the time if you check out te tailgate there is gonna be a dent. ha ha. So what did i do 2 weeks after getting my truck? I joined the ranks of those with tailgate dents by backing into a small tree at a little food joint. at first i thought it was hitting the hitch then later that night i say the dent in the tailgate. so whats the moral of the story? parking spots are to short and narrow theses days
I think he fell against it hard because he was loosing his balance, remember when he fel out of your pickup, both times?rotfl
Hehe, I got a warning a few days ago for parking my truck in a "Compact" spot. imp: Brand new Mercedes SL on one side, and a BMW on the other side over in Scottsdale. I don't know what their problem was. Had to be at least 8" between me and the Mercedes and maybe 16" between me and the BMW (I needed room to get out without hitting it with the door). I wish I had a camera... rotfl Hey, they need to have more "full size" spaces if they don't want people doing that... Over there they think everyone drives compacts, but there are always plenty of compact spaces, and no full size spaces, with about half the "full size" occupied by subcompacts (which they don't ticket!).
I have the mot problems with sticking out the back of the spaces, they aren't long enough for my 'ol longbed Dodge diesel.rotfl
I leaned over the side of the bed of mine to get a bag of landscaping rocks and my fat belly dented the outer sheet metal ! That is some THIN skins on the truck . It looks like I can work the dent back to original shape but it is a shame that something like that would dent sheetmetal - or maybe I need to loose weight:doah: ???? Tom
hey i got a long bed too and i know the feeling of sticking out of parking spots. the parking spots i really hate are ones that are lined straight up and down aisles. first off its hard to get inot even if other cars arent cheating over then it's a pain in the ..... to back out because there isnt enough room behind you. when i go places like that i feel that special urge deep down in my heart to just take up 2,3 and if i can find it 4 parking spaces.
Going OT here, but there is an easy answer to that. Don't pull in forward, back in. MUCH easier to get in AND out. I can park that monster of mine quite eaily in a compact spot (usually in one shot) that these Yuppie twits can't get the Beamers in and out of without a 3 point turn and winding up on the line anyway.
hahahaa SO True! Were I work is FULL of yuppies and my rig is the longest one in the parking lot and I allways back into my spot, I get here at 6am so pleanty of room. THease people buy thoes 7 series beamers ($70K) and they can't even park straightrotfl Damn CitySlickers
Have the same problem at school but I have a dually. Everyone always parks just crooked enough so my dually fenders won't fit in the space
