Aluminum ground cables?

I do not know his name but he was previously employed in the mobile home industry. That is why many of them burned up years ago. It was ran all the way to the recepticals. That is not allowed by code now.
Something else to look forward to.

 

Aluminum conducts electricity much better than copper and is lighter.

The majority if not all of the power grid is aluminum cable.

Aluminum wiring in residential and commercial construction in the 60's and 70's was far more common than copper but there were corrosion issues where the aluminum meets the steel connectors so that's why you don't see it in residential construction today.

The corrosion led to fire hazards.

As far as your truck goes I see no problem with aluminum as long as it's not married to a steel part.

Are you having issues with it?

If so I'd like to hear what they are.

 

are you sure it's aluminum or not plated copper ?

 

must be another new European technology ...

 

I’ve noticed aluminum battery cables on my cars, 08 and 09 GMs. Mobile homes, till 1976. A house down the street, burned last year, aluminum wiring. I’m rewriring my overloaded 14 ga.. copper, with 12 ga. How it ever passed inspection is beyond me. There is a special grease, used for aluminum supply lines, when installing to fuse box. You might want to use some of that, to fight corrosion.

 

As long as its sized correctly you've got no problem.

 

It's part of corporates return customers policy. See this is top secret information here. Every manufacturer of products made here in this country have a failure test. Example if you buy a cellphone it's designed to update(max out data) so that it fails in 2 years or less.
Truck manufacturers test everything to find out how long parts last. If the cables last forever then they get rejected and sent back to the test lab to find out how to make them fail in a few years