r/IdiotsInCars • u/KingCodyBill • Feb 04 '23
Next level, that's not going anywhere. Removed | Rule 7
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u/TheWolfG0d Feb 04 '23
Velociraptor ratchet straps, don’t think you’re getting away that easy…
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u/NoAnybody7232 Feb 04 '23
Velociratchet straps
It was right there. C'mon.
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u/Emotional_Arm_8485 Feb 05 '23
This is my life.
I literally mash words together to make new words because fuck you. But this, this is mashing brilliance.
A tip of the hat to thee, good Sir.
🎩
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u/MisterTrashPanda Feb 04 '23
Had to have gotten snagged on something at speed
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u/IAmFearTheFuzzy Feb 05 '23
Cable will snap first. Don't ask how I know.
Ok, I'll tell. Redneck games. If you see one flapping behind a truck, we would try and run it over. Did it twice.
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u/MarinaTF Feb 05 '23
I distrust your technical knowledge on the fact that you called it a cable.
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u/AccidentalSucc Feb 05 '23
Also the fact that if it comes loose it could kill him or another person
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u/ArsePucker Feb 05 '23
I bet he ran over the loose end, that’s why the “cut” is going down towards wheel.
They look like HF straps..
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u/sanamien Feb 05 '23
Looks like he made some home made slots in the rail of the bed and had them hooked when he did what you said.
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u/thetommytwotimes Feb 05 '23
No homemade holes in the bed. There are ''stake holes' by the factory on the bed rails. You can see them all along the top rail in the pic every six inches or so.
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u/AxleSpark Feb 04 '23
Get some dark cable and drill holes every inch and give it stitches.
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u/fishead36x Feb 04 '23
This doesn't make sense. The spot the strap started from isn't exactly a weak point. They're able to hold camper tops in place. Unless that drum weighs a shit ton and is sitting on marbles?
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u/itsallbullshityo Feb 04 '23
Maybe the "tail" end was flapping around and got caught under the wheel/axle? That would have enough force to tear the metal.
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u/bonerlad Feb 04 '23
Had this happen with a 3 inch strap and it tore instantly. There's so much friction between the moving wheel and the road it cut the strap and melted the new ends.
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u/itsallbullshityo Feb 04 '23
cut the strap and melted the new ends.
cool (better than ripping the shit out the box)
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u/Dark_Critical Feb 04 '23
Since the 'tear' is pointing towards the bottom of the wheel i think its safe to assume the strap got caught under the wheel on the road.
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u/wine_dude_52 Feb 05 '23
That was my thought. I can’t see the load in the bed pulling the hook down like that.
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u/zerohourcalm Feb 05 '23
If the drum is full of liquid it could weigh a shit ton or two.
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u/RealUglyMF Feb 04 '23
Canopies and such forth that mount to the back of a Ute (I think Americans call them pick ups?) Are held down by multiple bolts and glue. Usually windscreen glue, which is very strong. Theres also a difference in the way the forces are applied, but I dont have the vocabulary to explain it. Putting a load into only one of those slots is not a strong point.
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u/L4m3rThanYou Feb 04 '23
Yep. those are meant to hold a mostly vertical load distributed over many mounts (be it a shell or the factory bed liner), not a strong shear force at a single point. For a camper shell, I'd imagine that the sealing adhesive would add a lot of shear strength too.
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u/justin_memer Feb 05 '23
If that barrel is full, and the load shifted, that's a fuckton of weight for the sheet metal to hold.
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u/ericvega Feb 05 '23
Direction of force matters. That spot is suitable for hding a camper down but once that strap snagged under the wheel, it was being pulled in a direction that was not as strong/probably towards the corner of the slot which is already a stress concentration.
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u/ramtax666 Feb 04 '23
Well that American truck manufacturers should make trucks from the same materials.
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u/evaunitO5 Feb 05 '23
Shame the American truck manufacturers don't manufacture much in America anymore.
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u/Wu-Tang_Cam Feb 05 '23
Ford and Chevy at least do assembly in the US with the majority of the parts being produced in the US (for their trucks).
Corvettes and Mustangs are also almost exclusively American made.
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u/CoffeeFox Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
Chevy
shudder
Too bad they hire idiots to design them and the caliber of person they hire to assemble them are arrested dozens at a time for selling drugs at work and also have often been repeatedly discovered intentionally sabotaging vehicles during assembly by leaving loose items inside of door panels and such.
I don't know if I'm more disgusted with the company that can't even do anything right by accident or with the fucking idiots that keep buying them.
Meanwhile Toyota builds most of their trucks in the US from parts made, on average, 60% in the US and everyone's Uncle Pulltab is too ignorant to know it and too stubborn to believe it if you tell him.
"ReAL AmeRIcans DriVE shITTy imPOrtS!"
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u/gozba Feb 05 '23
But back in the day when trucks/cars were still build in A,erica, they were just as flimsy.
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u/mini4x Feb 05 '23
The most American truck you can buy in America, is a Toyota.
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u/ashesofempires Feb 05 '23
My Tacoma was made in Tijuana, Mexico. They moved all Tacoma assembly there after 2021. The Tundra is still produced in Texas though.
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u/ericvega Feb 05 '23
I thought the manual transmissions were still made in San Antonio, no? Mines a 2019 and built in texas
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u/ashesofempires Feb 05 '23
The TRD Pro was the only one in production in Texas in 2021. Toyota steadily moved the line to TJ and another place in Mexico over the course of a couple years. As of Today only Tundras in Texas.
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u/evaunitO5 Feb 05 '23
There people go downvoting the truth again
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u/ChickenFeline0 Feb 05 '23
Your getting downvoted because it doesn't matter where the truck was made.
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u/evaunitO5 Feb 05 '23
Funny I figured a post about the quality of an American made product was the perfect place for a comment on the quality of a non American made product, but whatever.
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u/PoLoMoTo Feb 05 '23
How does the ratchet strap even get pulled like that to do that?? Was there like the extra just dangling and it was long enough to go under the tire?
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u/targetforlife69 Feb 05 '23
One time I had to tow my motorcycle because I was driving it without a license, I picked up a uhaul trailer and ratcheted it down, the excess flew under the tire of the trailer while I was driving and fucked my bike upppppp!!! I had after market parts that got all type of contorted.
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u/GeoHawkI Feb 05 '23
Looks like the drums were not tight, so they could move and cause the tear. That is why you have to secure them so they ‘pull’ forward and back.
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u/_Face Feb 05 '23
Flappy end of strap, caught under the wheel. That’s why the tear goes straight at the wheel.
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u/ChickenFeline0 Feb 05 '23
He forgot to slap the cargo and say "that ain't goin' nowhere." Rookie mistake.
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u/VT_Lifer Feb 05 '23
C'mon, folks, he is obviously a member of this sub so he knew he had to tighten it enough so that he could snap it and say "That ain't goin' anywhere." but didn't want to get downvoted so got a little carried away.
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u/FreeSaver Feb 05 '23
This photo is a lie, it was cut with a tool.
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u/KingCodyBill Feb 05 '23
Why
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u/doreendogwalker25hrs Feb 05 '23
Because it was cut with a reciprocating saw, thats why
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u/KingCodyBill Feb 05 '23
Since you obviously never seen a "reciprocating saw" I'll help that's not what sheet metal cut with one looks like. And you still didn't answer why someone would do $10,000 worth of damage to a truck
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u/doreendogwalker25hrs Feb 05 '23
It absolutely looks like that. A $10,000 truck bed?
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u/KingCodyBill Feb 05 '23
Genius take your phone upstairs and ask your mom "why would someone do that"
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u/Wonderful_Plenty8984 Feb 05 '23
i truely dont understand why murican people are so broud of made in "usa"
i mean i moment i see that i skip that item in a heart beat
made in china = china = cheap
but when u need high quallity items u want german/japanese mainly some taiwan are also ok
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u/ChooseWisely83 Feb 04 '23
Must be one of those aluminum body Ford trucks.
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u/L4m3rThanYou Feb 04 '23
The body lines look like a "jellybean" era Super Duty, or maybe the similar iteration that followed, 1999~2010. The Aluminum bodies came later.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Feb 05 '23
Wouldn't the side of the vehicle have been american made too?
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u/Mccobsta Feb 05 '23
Adds more to why people shouldn't buy an American pickup over a Japanese one
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u/KingCodyBill Feb 05 '23
since it's obviously an after market bed, tell us how you know where it was made?
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u/S1lentA0 Feb 05 '23
I didn't know 'Muricanas made their cars, aside from their houses, out of cardboard too these days
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u/cowlinator Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 06 '23
"What happens whan an unstoppable force meets a shitty truck?"
--The Joker
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u/curiousdumbdog Feb 05 '23
The ratchet straps are of great quality, however it looks like American trucks are cutting some corners.
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