Soon, Your GM Truck Bed Could Drain Itself

[securityguy]

Just what we've all been asking for...

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/09/soon-your-gm-truck-bed-could-drain-itself/

 

[NullNomad]

 

[Smokey0844]

OK guys. No more hiring engineers from the Carolinas.

 

[LSnTX]

Using processor sensors and controllers,
What could go wrong?

 

[ZR2xBIZON]

Using processor sensors and controllers,
What could go wrong?

The sound it makes while adjusting the ride height will mute several times within the first 5 minutes

 

[Byrds8]

To think if they would only put the resources they are using to come up with useless dumb ideas into quality.....We might would have top notch vehicles.

 

[JS59]

It's called a "drainage angle". Such an original term - and one that I'm sure few understand . . .

 

[Truckie]

Sounds like a complicated solution to a very simple problem.

 

[securityguy]

Sounds like a complicated solution to a very simple problem.

Yep...just step on the gas and all of that water just drains right out!

 

[DNZR2]

Sounds like a complicated solution to a very simple problem.

Yep, that’s what engineers do.

 

[securityguy]

Yep, that’s what engineers do.

Not all of us I have always taken pride, when designing things, to take into account who may need to fix it if it breaks. Too many engineers don't think ahead and only try to solve a problem without thinking after the fact. To add sensors and actuators to a truck to rid itself of water in the bed is more like a patent issue only to have it on the books versus true implementation. If GM puts this into practice, we are all doomed or we find a way to disable it.

 

[ZR2xBIZON]

If GM puts this into practice, we are all doomed or we find a way to disable it.

Enter "RANGE DA Module"

 

[DNZR2]

Not all of us I have always taken pride, when designing things, to take into account who may need to fix it if it breaks. Too many engineers don't think ahead and only try to solve a problem without thinking after the fact. To add sensors and actuators to a truck to rid itself of water in the bed is more like a patent issue only to have it on the books versus true implementation. If GM puts this into practice, we are all doomed or we find a way to disable it.

@securityguy you know I wasn’t referring to you. I’m referring to the ones that don’t know which end of a screwdriver to use.

 

[securityguy]

@securityguy you know I wasn’t referring to you. I’m referring to the ones that don’t know which end of a screwdriver to use.

100% my friend. Just adding my 2 cents...nothing more.

 

[jruck]

Just squat it. Day late and a dollar short GM. If you don’t squat, you ain’t no cowboy.