Hillsboro aluminum truck deck

Cyle said:

Just putting one on my Dodge 5500 right now. Overall seems like good quality, aluminum sure is nice. Too many steel decks look like crap after only a year. Personally I wouldn't shell out retail for one, but I got an absolute steal of a price, I paid like 1/3 of retail. The wiring is well done, all in loom and everything plugs together. I think if you were putting 1000lbs on the corner and it wasn't spread out well you might have issues, but other then that i'm not worried about the deck, 26,000lb gooseneck is as good as others, and I prefer getting a separate bumper hitch that is actually engineered, most decks it's just one that's rigged up with a guess for a rating. Mine is an older model, about 2 years old maybe they tweaked a few things since and improved it even. Super easy to install also because the aluminum part separates from the steel main frame with only 6 bolts. Weight savings doesn't hurt either, i'm betting on a 3500 the deck is lighter then the box. Mine is 10.5' and I bet the entire thing isn't 500lbs.

If by any chance your 3500 is a single wheel, I know a line on a cheap one, brand new still just been sitting in yard for like 2 years, same as mine. Only issue I had was I had to repaint the whole steel section, but well worth it for the price savings.

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