I wonder what some F-150 body panels will sell for at the recyclers... wont take long for the scumbags to figure this one out

 

I'll just wait here patiently while you go out and attempt to stick a magnet to yer current truck's hood .......

... back so soon? Notice anything? Thought so.

Fact is, F150 hoods have been aluminum since 1997. Weight savings measure, y'know.

I looked, but I can't seem to find any reports of a run on F150 hoods. Tailgates, oh, yeah - a TON of those ( and they be STEEL ).

But not hoods. You'd think that after 2 + gens of Fiddy's the Scumbags woulda figgered this out. Stoopid Scumbags, eh?

I wouldn't worry so much. Personally, I think they gonna be stolen 'cause they be Sooo purdy ....

Now - Copper - them bastiges are stealing it by the Mile from our city wiring infrastructure

BTW - noticed you've been REAL frisky in the last hour or so, a-crappin' here and a-pokin' there - what woke yall up from hibernation?

Good job! This place wuz gittin' kinda pokey!

 

No sherlock, your not telling me anything I dont alread know, love the pompous attitude. Stealing a hood here or there is nothing, getting all the body panels and bed would make the effort worth while.

 

Really? Almost every Audi made in the last 10 years or so has had an aluminum body but I don't see them running around without body panels. Almost all factory wheels are made from aluminum and the scrap yards aren't full of them.

Thieves are thieves because they are lazy and stealing is easier than working. Taking body panels off a truck is way too close to doing real work for most thieves.

 

Everything you see made of steel has already been recycled !! It's an old practice , NOT invented by the Greenies !
Make the trucks of copper and it will be quickly recycled - sooner than you want .

 

They are an alloy not pure aluminum. That will not bring the top dollar Al pricing.

 

unless you work at Alcoa, all the aluminum you touch is an alloy of some sort.

 

Since 1998

 

My 1997 F250 (light duty) has an Aluminum hood.

 

Or Norandal, JW, Novelis....

I am in the commodities business... Just had to add to this.

Speaking of aluminum theft.... A few years back I had an entire truckload of 1100 series Aluminum Finning material stolen....

 

Might see more tailgates stolen, but it will be worth more as the tailgate than AL scrap.

 

But the power lock will also control the tailgate, making a locked tailgate more common.

 

True, I didn't think of that.

 

You can steal a locked tailgate. Just take off the access panel and unlock it.....

 

True. But if a crook is looking to steal a tailgate, is he going to go for one that's locked, or the one that's already unlocked and much quicker and easier to get to? It's not about stopping them, it's about making it more difficult and time consuming.