---
title: "This Chevrolet Tahoe Frame Swap at a Dealership Has Not Gone Well at All"
description: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."
date: "2017-07-27"
modified: "2017-07-28"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/12961/this-chevrolet-tahoe-frame-swap-at-a-dealership-has-not-gone-well-at-all"
categories:
  - "Chevrolet News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "body on frame"
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Fail"
  - "Mechanic"
  - "suv/crossover"
  - "Tahoe"
---

# This Chevrolet Tahoe Frame Swap at a Dealership Has Not Gone Well at All

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/07/20246151_1817673725197735_8042449532173128171_n.jpg>)
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A frame swap is among the most intensive procedures you can do to [a truck](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/11849/heres-why-body-on-frame-suvs-probably-arent-going-anywhere>) (or car, for that matter), and unless you're pretty skilled with a wrench, it's definitely a job best left to the professionals. But even they can screw up sometimes. Badly.

The picture up top surfaced on Facebook this week courtesy of [Wickedautovids,](<https://www.facebook.com/Wickedautovids/>) and it's actually hard to imagine how a frame swap could possibly go worse. According to [their post,](<https://www.facebook.com/Wickedautovids/photos/rpp.1422780101353768/1817673725197735/?type=3&theater>) a customer brought his third-gen [Chevrolet Tahoe](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/9019/chevrolet-bumps-up-the-tahoes-horsepower-with-rst-special-edition>) into a dealership for an insurance-covered frame swap. The body was successfully dropped onto the new frame, but the mechanic decided to just insert a few mounting bolts "loosely" before lifting it into the air to tighten and add the rest.

The pictures tell the rest of the story. The frame slipped, detached on the left side, and swung down like a pendulum, dragging the body off the lift and "nearly crushing" two employees standing beneath it. Thankfully, no one was injured.

And as mad as the Chevy's owner probably was to come back expecting a like-new truck and see, well, this, there's justice for them too—the dealership owner reportedly took them out to the lot to pick out a new Tahoe. All's well that ends well?

![message-editor%2F1501203856862-20246204\_1817986251833149\_4488447886579164103\_n.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1501203856862-20246204_1817986251833149_4488447886579164103_n.jpg>)
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## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

### Author social links  
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[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-cheromcha-1550248a/>)