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Originally Posted by pedro66
I just got an 07 long bed 5.7 4x4 and on certain stretches of freeway at about 55 to 65mph it gets on a real bounce, so bad infact it will bounce stuff out of the cup holders. if I drive faster its not so bad but costs on tickets.
Its not 100% the road surface as I have driven this way to work for years and never in any of my previous trucks (none as long as this one) had it so bad.
I am thinking its the long bed with no weight in it, its done it since day one is there anything I can do to decrease the effect.
Other than that I would not go back to my previous Chevy.
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Pedro, Funny thing is I guessed you lived in Vegas before I ever looked at your stats. I lived there for a while, and live just a few hours north of there now and visit my parents in LV quite often. I would guess you're talking about the section of I-215 west or east bound near the junction with I-15??? Let me know if I'm correct.
With that stretch, and others like it around town, the concrete was poured in sections that are near the length of longer wheelbase trucks, or at least that's my guess. It's almost unnoticable in big cars or regular sized trucks, but in longer trucks it's very noticable. First time I noticed it was when I was driving one of my work trucks for the first time, which was an F-350 crewcab longbed 4WD. The truck bounced up and down so bad that I actually got off the freeway and inspeced the axles and suspension. It wasn't until I found nothing wrong with the truck and realized that it rode fine on other roads that I realized the problem wasn't the truck, but the length of the concrete sections.
Try paying attention to what roads your on and if they're blacktop (poured continuously) or concrete (poured in sections). I'll bet that's all it is. If so, then the only solution is to take other roads or ignore it.
Let me know what you think, as I'm curious now.