SonicJosh

Fluid Film will attract dust and everything will stick to it. Shortly your frame will looked like a waxed chevy frame that and your nice looking black electrocoat will look like crap. If i lived in Texas i wouldn't . Hell i live in the rust belt and I don't an my F150 still looks good after 2 years of salt roads.

jamie75

My dads 56 f100 has just a tad of surface rust with the original faded paint. I wouldn't worry about it

UncleG

I have a 1970 pickup and a 2002 pickup (oldest 2) and live around the same area as Texas and have zero rust and have never used anything to prevent it.

Masi1926

The reason I know about Fluid Film, is because of my Sea Doo.
This is what the engine looks like after one summer on the ocean. I think it's easy to say, it can't hurt to use it.

Gasser55

From someone that uses a boat in sal****er monthly, just spraying water under the truck after salt exposure actually does nothing. The salt is still on the metal. In Texas salt would be so rare you should purchase Salt Away, Salt X, or Salt Terminator. They're all the same thing- we use it to wash down boate trailers, boats, and engines that are in salt. These products actually get the salt off. Just spraying with water would actually push salt particles inside crevices it might have not been otherwise.

brg2015

I guess I'm one of those "wacky people". My 1999 F150 only had 105,000 miles when I traded it for my 2015 and I would have kept it longer except the frame was rusting out. The body still looked good (except for the rocker panels I had to replace), but the bracket that holds the charcoal canister rusted out and the canister was dragging behind me one day. I took the spare tire off because I feared it was going to fall off at any moment because the cross member was half rusted through. I had to replace the non replaceable front bump stops because they rusted out. I had to replace the rear leaf spring hangers because they rusted out. I tried to wash the underside as much as possible, but when the temperature is below 20F for a month at a time, it's hard to do. And I'm not an anomaly. I seen many other vehicles with rusted out frames.

Hell, this is my boss's 2015 Tahoe after 1 winter. What's it going to look like in 10 years?



Now, of course, this is in Maine. As far as the OP in Texas, this will never be a problem.

Aj06bolt12r

I use fluid film on my boat that sees salt water use for a week at a time twice a year. Fluid Film is good stuff.... Is it worth it to cote your frame with it living in Texas? I wouldn't.

rbraughn

I see everyone saying if you live in Texas, you don't need it, but what about those people that live near the beach like Corpus, Matagorda, Padre Island, Galveston Island etc. The humid salt air and beach sand can be brutal in those places. I have a fishing cabin on the coast, and have seen cans of WD-40 rust through

I have sprayed fluid film on my boat trailer before, and cannot imagine trying to climb under my truck and do it... seems like it would get all over you and the driveway.

k.b.

I like to go with belt and suspenders whenever possible.

I spray the inside of my bike frames with oil as I sometimes vacation on the ocean and ride the salty beach areas. I do this out of experience, with and without the oil treatment, there is a difference that is clearly discernible.

Lots of people on this forum do tons of stuff you don't "need" to do, in the interest of taking care of their $50,000 investment. A few hours and a couple of bucks are cheap insurance compared to most of what I read here on the forum. YMMV

ThunderStruck007

A can a fluid film is literally $10....
I used 2 cans on the underside of my truck... now I live in PA where they salt the hell out of the roads...
But I mean, for $10-20, isn't it worth the piece of mind? Regardless on where you live?
If I lived in Texas and just bought a new $50k truck, i'd sure as hell spend $20 bucks and 15 mins of time to protect it a little bit.

Like Nike says, "Just Do it"