Rust on 2012?
Here's a Idea if you can get your hands on it. There's a product called POR 15. We used it at my last body shop to paint really really rusty utility bodys and dump bodys on work trucks. It uses some kind of wizardry to stop rust cold, and convert it to primer. If the dealer won't fix it and you're still worried, look into it.
Use tons of safety equipment and masking though!! The stuff is brutal and goes everywhere!
POR 15
Use tons of safety equipment and masking though!! The stuff is brutal and goes everywhere!
POR 15
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From: SW.PA
Originally Posted by mbullock
Here's a Idea if you can get your hands on it. There's a product called POR 15. We used it at my last body shop to paint really really rusty utility bodys and dump bodys on work trucks. It uses some kind of wizardry to stop rust cold, and convert it to primer. If the dealer won't fix it and you're still worried, look into it.
Use tons of safety equipment and masking though!! The stuff is brutal and goes everywhere!
POR 15
Use tons of safety equipment and masking though!! The stuff is brutal and goes everywhere!
POR 15
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From: Houma, Louisiana
Originally Posted by mbullock
Here's a Idea if you can get your hands on it. There's a product called POR 15. We used it at my last body shop to paint really really rusty utility bodys and dump bodys on work trucks. It uses some kind of wizardry to stop rust cold, and convert it to primer. If the dealer won't fix it and you're still worried, look into it.
Use tons of safety equipment and masking though!! The stuff is brutal and goes everywhere!
POR 15
Use tons of safety equipment and masking though!! The stuff is brutal and goes everywhere!
POR 15
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From: Tennessee
Originally Posted by NorCal-09
That was a different issue, and it is called Rail Dust.
That is a form of environmental 'fallout' on the exterior (mostly the horizontal) painted surfaces of a vehicle, found more commonly in cities where there is a lot of heavy industry and/or rail traffic, wherein the material produced by trains running over metal rails, sends iron oxide and other particulate matter into the atmosphere, where it comes back down and settles on painted surfaces, and over time, can create a chemical reaction which can damage the paint, if not cleaned off.
Most of my vehicles, have had the type of rust which the OP is commenting on, either on the rear diff' or the driveshaft, right from the start. BTW, it has nothing to do with "cheap steel from China" as another member stated; bare steel rusts--no matter what the origin.
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From: Burlington, ON, CDA
Ford must have changed their drive shafts cuz mine still looks brand new. Zero rust and I'm I Canada so she sees quite a fluctuation in weather from snow, rain, heat and some times all in the same day lol. Some rust on your steel parts as stated is normal. The rust shown in the pics looks to be a bit much for a brand new truck IMO. I'd get the dealer to check it out and maybe get a free undercoat out of it ( one can hope). Shouldn't cause any issues but rust is never good and you definitely don't wanna see it like that on a brand new truck. Good luck
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From: Calgary
By the time your rear axle rusted though your truck will be 150 years old, pretty sure the way we are treating this planet it will never make it. All our trucks up here are the same way, its normal for this to happen.