Ford F150 SVT Raptor Owners Suffering Bent Frames
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Strange, they must have been driving the **** outta those trucks...
As a Ford UAW employee this type of thing pisses me off. Built all over the world; "Assembled" in America... Just ain't right IMO. We should get all our parts from the USA... This ******' country and the way some people think.
As a Ford UAW employee this type of thing pisses me off. Built all over the world; "Assembled" in America... Just ain't right IMO. We should get all our parts from the USA... This ******' country and the way some people think.
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Strange, they must have been driving the **** outta those trucks...
As a Ford UAW employee this type of thing pisses me off. Built all over the world; "Assembled" in America... Just ain't right IMO. We should get all our parts from the USA... This ******' country and the way some people think.![MAD](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_mad.gif)
As a Ford UAW employee this type of thing pisses me off. Built all over the world; "Assembled" in America... Just ain't right IMO. We should get all our parts from the USA... This ******' country and the way some people think.
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Really? I would say that is what caused this, I thought they were bottoming out the stock suspension. People that do the off-road stuff as much as they do should know that bouncing off the bump stops is going to cause **** to happen; I've broken quad frames before because of that. I'm sure the frame wasn't made to take those kind of direct hits.
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You'd think they'd straiten that out if they want to keep their complete domination of that market.
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Really? I would say that is what caused this, I thought they were bottoming out the stock suspension. People that do the off-road stuff as much as they do should know that bouncing off the bump stops is going to cause **** to happen; I've broken quad frames before because of that. I'm sure the frame wasn't made to take those kind of direct hits.
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Were the owners abusing their trucks and pushing them past the limit??
YES
Were they just asking for something to break??
YES
Did Ford promote this truck to be a factory BAJA truck, and that it would take this type of punishment?
YES
Don't you think some other sort of component should've failed before the frame bent??
YES
Is the frame a weak link on this truck??
YES
IMO it looks like Ford built everything about the Raptor to be heavy duty and take a beating. Except for one component, the frame. Bet you $10 that its the same damn frame as a 1/2 ton F150 with different suspension mounting points. Also bet you that all the Raptor mules were using that boat anchor 5.4 DOCH mill with 320hp. The new 6.2 liter V8 has 411 hp, so you can be running A LOT higher speeds like these morons were doing and bend the frame.
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Were they just asking for something to break??
YES
Did Ford promote this truck to be a factory BAJA truck, and that it would take this type of punishment?
YES
Don't you think some other sort of component should've failed before the frame bent??
YES
Is the frame a weak link on this truck??
YES
IMO it looks like Ford built everything about the Raptor to be heavy duty and take a beating. Except for one component, the frame. Bet you $10 that its the same damn frame as a 1/2 ton F150 with different suspension mounting points. Also bet you that all the Raptor mules were using that boat anchor 5.4 DOCH mill with 320hp. The new 6.2 liter V8 has 411 hp, so you can be running A LOT higher speeds like these morons were doing and bend the frame.
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IDK, they say the owners blame a poor location of the bump stop. Softer suspension that makes them bottom out more would equal the bent frame being their own fault. If this was done with the stock suspension I would blame Ford too, but this seems to be the owners fault. I do agree that the frame seems to be overly weak, but it's hard to pin it all on Ford when they were running softer suspension on the trucks.
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I've seen all parts of that before, I don't know how serious I can take it. It's just another form of advertising for Chevy, that's it. It doesn't show any details on how the trucks were equipped or anything like that whatsoever, doesn't really prove too much at all. But then again, it's no different than what Ford has put out in the past showing why their trucks were the best, or really any other manufacturers trying to promote their product for that matter.
How would I go about ordering a "different" frame than for a Ford
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I've seen all parts of that before, I don't know how serious I can take it. It's just another form of advertising for Chevy, that's it. It doesn't show any details on how the trucks were equipped or anything like that whatsoever, doesn't really prove too much at all. But then again, it's no different than what Ford has put out in the past showing why their trucks were the best, or really any other manufacturers trying to promote their product for that matter.
There was a big discussion about that commercial on another forum and the conclusion was it was staged to make the GM shine.
But your right, all manufacturers do it...case in point, look at the crazy Ecoboost truck tests that Ford is doing now; honestly I don't believe half the **** that they say they did to that ecoboost engine in the commercials.
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How would I go about ordering a "different" frame than for a Ford
. Frame twist is a direct result of cross/lateral bracing and frame member sizing. Stock pre 95 S10s acted like that, a few strategically placed cross braces and it's gone. Ford just did a lackluster job on their frame in that instance and from experience, Yotas are far worse.
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Have there been any new tests on that truck? I remember the first test with the prototype it did much better than the 5.3 Chevy and the 5.7 Ram, and everyone I know that's drove one said it had a lot of power.
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I haven't seen any unbiased tests on the truck yet; but on Yellowbullet there is a Ecoboost thread where a lot of guys have driven/bought a Ecoboost and they think they are all that. Couple of them have unhooked them from their car trailers while at the track and made passes with them. Seems they run low 14's.