The Raptor was means to go high speeds off-road so I don't think you could do too much beating with them, at least for what they were supposed to do. Either the company building the frame used bad material that might not even be their fault or Ford didn't design the frame right. I'm thinking the frames are too stiff and need to be able to flex, but I could be wrong.

Either Ford didn't use the right materials to build it, or the owners put the trucks through way more than what it was really intended to. Werent they racing this on the baja races in stock form? Wonder what the owners were really doing to the trucks.

i dont quite understand how the frame would bend in that direction...if they landed with too much force, the middle would SAG, not RISE..and i cant think of anything else that would cause it to rise in the middle of the frame like that..

nevermind, upon reading the forum, i understand =)

It seems like they way they bill the truck would attract the sort of people who would think that the truck is indestructible. The truck is probably as strong as it was designed to be but you can never comprehend the stupid punishment people can figure out how to dish out.

If you read the forum, 10 out of the 4 trucks on that raptor run had that happen and he said there's more across the country. The trucks were sold, advertised and meant to be used at high speed off-road. It would be like if you bought a 1 ton truck for towing a 5th wheel or gooseneck and then the frame start to sag without putting too much tongue weight or too much weight in general than advertised. I don't think it couldn't be a big enough chance that others across the country has had this problem. I think it was just a bad batch of materials used in the frames.

ppl who posted on the video of that silverado jumping the dunes where talking about "oh should of gotten a raptor" yeah get one if u want your frame to bend in half! ha

its a ford..

yeah they did race it in the baja and i think it might have even placed. seems to be a design oversight. when a car company tries something new it sometimes takes a few year models to iron out the kinks so to speak. the svt raptor is completely different from the svt lightning. they went from designing the worlds fastest production street truck of the time to designing a truck that could be driven hard off road. THIS shouldv'e been caught but im not surprised that issues are arrising

lasttogo - I see your point but this isn't something like the suspension not good enough or part of the powertrain not strong enough. It's the frame, what everything it somehow connected to, it's the skeleton. That should be the main thing you make sure you get right. A frame rusting is one thing, maybe the wrong paint, but actually bending over what it was designed to do is just something that's not right.

BUILT FORD TOUGH......... OH WAIT. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

just a bent frame haha still beat an import!

Fix On Road Daily.............. hahaha jk, but wow thats pretty shitty. those trucks are not cheap. you would expect better, is there a video of them doing what caused the frames to bend?

My understanding of the Raptor is it was designed to beat the hell out of it, so if it isn't holding up I would blame Ford, not the people that are probably driving them the way they were told they could in the advertising for them.

Ford hasn't yet realized that if you truely want to test a vehicle's durability, you have to loan it to a couple of drunk thrillseeking rednecks. (No Offense)

HAHAHA !!! Posters are makin me laugh too hard!

This sounds like a serious problem in the design of the frame. Most pre-runner style trucks have a re-enforced tubular cage around the frame on the front and rear of the truck to help absorb the forces encountered on the frame. The suspension on the truck is awesome! But the suspension will only handle as much support as the frame can provide. I think this is Ford's fault and they should fix the issue. This is clearly an engineering fault that is not the result of a bunch of guys just sounding off on the internet!

I personally think it a mix between design failure and driver failure. There is an access hole there in the frame which weakens it. Then they had the bright idea of putting a little bumpstop there right on the frame beneath the hole. Not too smart. Its effectively like taking a ball pein hammer to aluminum foil. Plus hitting an 18" kicker going that fast is ALOT of force. The suspension has no time to absorb an energy and it has to go somewhere. The suspension is also squated from accelaration and therefore can absorb even less energy than it normally would. That's why I think it is a combination of the two

I wondered how long it would take someone to find the limits or weak points in this truck. Now for anyone bashing ford for the frames bending, take any stock truck from GM,Dodge,Toyota or Nissan and do the same things to them and see what is left when you are done.