P500 Dumpbed on 500?

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Has anyone retrofitted the 520 Honda dumpbed to the older 500 model?
 
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I honestly don’t know if all the hype is with the effort. I have a 520 for over a year now and the dump feature only seems to get used during cleaning. I tilt the bed so I can get at the motor to wash it and dirt flows out of the bed easily. I tried dumping wood out of it a couple times, but it was so heavy I just unloaded piece by piece. My 10 cents.
 
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I honestly don’t know if all the hype is with the effort. I have a 520 for over a year now and the dump feature only seems to get used during cleaning. I tilt the bed so I can get at the motor to wash it and dirt flows out of the bed easily. I tried dumping wood out of it a couple times, but it was so heavy I just unloaded piece by piece. My 10 cents.
Not really used for dumping as much as for hauling. I wouldn't want my pickup to have a rack instead of the bed
 
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I’m buying the 520 that I can customize it the way I want and use it for property maintenance around my rental properties. It’s so handy for so many uses. When I had the 500’s it was missing the one thing I needed the most and the 520 gives me that! The garage is slowly piling up with goodies and I don’t even have it yet! :cool:
 
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This golf cart bed was made with a dump capability, but just as easy to pull stuff out so no desire to make it dump. Most of what I haul would be too heavy to manually dump. Value is for hauling, not dumping IMO.
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I have only used my dump feature 3 times in roughly a year of ownership.

I use the bed a lot, but rarely to dump material out.

Rob
 
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