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Originally Posted by iamnid
Amen.... or try driving the 101 from Sherman Oaks to Ventura - thought my teeth were going to fall out.
And personally, I think "bed bounce" is a misnomer -- the ENTIRE TRUCK bounces up and down. Stuff falls of the seats, drinks spill out of the top of the can and the center console pops open because everything is shaking so bad in the cab on these stretches of the freeway.
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My first encounter with my Tundra on rough-jointed concrete highways was on I-26 in North Carolina. The drinks would definitely have been spilling had they no lids attached. As soon as I entered this stretch of rough highway, I set my rearview mirrors to watch for bed bounce. I did not observe bed bounce but the ride was very rough over the worn joints in the road. I thought the drink-spilling roughness was when the front wheels impacted the joints.
On the same trip going north on I-25 out of Denver I again encountered rough-jointed concrete highway to the Wyoming State Line. This time I observed bed bounce through the rearview mirrors but the ride up front was not the drink-spilling roughness encountered on I-26 in NC.
I have no idea or expertise why the truck riding characteristics were different on those two freeways, but I do believe a good solution would be to fix the roads.
Stuball