Rust Never Sleeps

[Jack_Toepfer]

Strange how the frame is rough but the body is pristine. Initially I was thinking "That surface rust looks like shit" and then I saw the hole in the frame. That is not a rot hole in the frame, that's always been there.
He mentioned it is a ZR2, which is their off-road truck. If he is in fact off-roading it, that will expedite the rust. Also, at only 15k he is replacing the fuel filter? They recommend 30k for normal maintenance, 15k if it's being abused. If he is so on top of his maintenance, he would have noticed the rust over the last 3 oil changes on the 6.6 Duramax. When you're under a $75k truck that's showing significant surface rust, you'd undercoat it... immediately.

And, the obvious - he lives in Wisconsin and he plows with the truck, and he has for 2 winters now. I don't have any reason to believe he is salting his driveway with it, but apparently he is only plowing his 1/4mi long driveway. There shouldn't be any salt.
He may use it in the summer at the boat ramps, since his username is lakelakelakewi... chances are he enjoys the lake, and he could be submerging his frame under water.


@2ndAmend - you're right on. With a Ford, it's an aluminum body, and if you're trying to find a place to put your magnetic work light - no steel under the hood either. Even the core support is magnesium, my blower is aluminum... it's a PITA. I coated the entire underside of my truck with CRC Power Lube out of aerosol cans. Worked great but looks like crap. All of my shiny underparts are covered in crud now - Ridetech coilovers and Fox shocks in the rear.

 

[1971demon]

All mine have been. I live on one. I have some of the cleanest cars in the country.

I couldn't own a home on a dirt road

 

[2ndAmend]

Strange how the frame is rough but the body is pristine. Initially I was thinking "That surface rust looks like shit" and then I saw the hole in the frame. That is not a rot hole in the frame, that's always been there.
He mentioned it is a ZR2, which is their off-road truck. If he is in fact off-roading it, that will expedite the rust. Also, at only 15k he is replacing the fuel filter? They recommend 30k for normal maintenance, 15k if it's being abused. If he is so on top of his maintenance, he would have noticed the rust over the last 3 oil changes on the 6.6 Duramax. When you're under a $75k truck that's showing significant surface rust, you'd undercoat it... immediately.

And, the obvious - he lives in Wisconsin and he plows with the truck, and he has for 2 winters now. I don't have any reason to believe he is salting his driveway with it, but apparently he is only plowing his 1/4mi long driveway. There shouldn't be any salt.
He may use it in the summer at the boat ramps, since his username is lakelakelakewi... chances are he enjoys the lake, and he could be submerging his frame under water.


@2ndAmend - you're right on. With a Ford, it's an aluminum body, and if you're trying to find a place to put your magnetic work light - no steel under the hood either. Even the core support is magnesium, my blower is aluminum... it's a PITA. I coated the entire underside of my truck with CRC Power Lube out of aerosol cans. Worked great but looks like crap. All of my shiny underparts are covered in crud now - Ridetech coilovers and Fox shocks in the rear.

3 spray cans of Fluid Film on mine!

 

[2ndAmend]

I couldn't own a home on a dirt road

2000' of unpaved driveway provides a crapload or privacy!!!

 

[1971demon]

2000' of unpaved driveway provides a crapload or privacy!!!

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And a lotta stone chips...

 

[2ndAmend]

And a lotta stone chips...

Where?!??

 

[2ndAmend]

You will get 1000x more chips on the highway than on an unpaved drive. All my chips on all my vehicles are and have been on the leading surfaces.

 

[Jack_Toepfer]

And a lotta stone chips...

Honestly, unless you’re following someone down a road, the stones stay where they are… until you drive over them with some sticky Mickeys… then they’ll pepper your car and make you cringe.
Street tires and pickup trucks are fine on gravel roads.
Drag radials and motorcycles… they’re not welcome.

 

[1971demon]

Honestly, unless you’re following someone down a road, the stones stay where they are… until you drive over them with some sticky Mickeys… then they’ll pepper your car and make you cringe.
Street tires and pickup trucks are fine on gravel roads.
Drag radials and motorcycles… they’re not welcome.

Just not a fan or dirt roads...(of any kind)

 

[MMissile]

Honestly, unless you’re following someone down a road, the stones stay where they are… until you drive over them with some sticky Mickeys… then they’ll pepper your car and make you cringe.
Street tires and pickup trucks are fine on gravel roads.
Drag radials and motorcycles… they’re not welcome.

The front on my minivan, must have a thousand stone chips. It's from all the freeway driving I do.
Figure you're going 70-80mph+...and all the shit on the road is coming back at ya, in the opposing direction. It's large media-blasting.
I only have 300ft of dirt road to travel, but once wet...it might as well be miles of it. My stuff comes out, about 1/2 as much as I'd like.

I do enjoy having the farmland around me. It's slowly shrinking....but I'll probably be gone.

 

[1971demon]

The front on my minivan, must have a thousand stone chips. It's from all the freeway driving I do.
Figure you're going 70-80mph+...and all the shit on the road is coming back at ya, in the opposing direction. It's large media-blasting.
I only have 300ft of dirt road to travel, but once wet...it might as well be miles of it. My stuff comes out, about 1/2 as much as I'd like.

And unless you steam clean the underneath regularly...that shits stays there...and promotes rust...but steam cleanin the underneath is a major PITA...even with a lift...and a steam cleaner

 

[2ndAmend]

The front on my minivan, must have a thousand stone chips. It's from all the freeway driving I do.
Figure you're going 70-80mph+...and all the shit on the road is coming back at ya, in the opposing direction. It's large media-blasting.
I only have 300ft of dirt road to travel, but once wet...it might as well be miles of it. My stuff comes out, about 1/2 as much as I'd like.

I do enjoy having the farmland around me. It's slowly shrinking....but I'll probably be gone.

Is the unpaved portion public or private?

 

[Jimmy N.]

Rust is horrible especially the dodges that sit in the lot over the winter before being shipped out from Michigan

Oddly enough, our ordered '19 Redeye that took 17 weeks to make it to the dealer after it was built (and that was during the winter) only had very minor surface rust on the machined and unpainted parts.

And that was after it had spent time at least once in every storage yard they had, so it wasn't like it sat still in a shielded corner of a lot.

Of course, it had other damage, but that's a different story.

 

[Jimmy N.]

I couldn't own a home on a dirt road

I wouldn't want to own a home on any kind of road.

Besides, doesn't roads have easements on the sides that you can't build on either?

 

[MMissile]

County dirt road. The county grades and sprays, thru-out the year.
I also have a car wash about 2 minutes from my home. If it's clear weather, the daily cars get washed
daily [cheap membership]. They have 3 locations, so if I'm driving by... I get my car washed.

 

[2ndAmend]

County dirt road. The county grades and sprays, thru-out the year.
I also have a car wash about 2 minutes from my home. If it's clear weather, the daily cars get washed
daily [cheap membership]. They have 3 locations, so if I'm driving by... I get my car washed.

All you need to do is run for a high local political office and get them to pave it! Or contribute to a candidate who will!

Seriously, the reason I asked was, it it was private, you and the owners could have blackpack spread, pretty cheap, and it makes for a nice surface.

 

[RAMBLE1]

Cars down here underneath look brand new

I had my '22 Challenger Redeye in for a oil change and the technician ask me if I have the bottom of the car cleaned. He couldn't believe how nice it looked, just like new. I always keep an eye on the technicians when they work on my Hellcat. A few other technicians were also looking at my Hellcat. Only in Florida, no salt, no grit, no ice and no snow...

 

[1971demon]

The last GM car I ever bought was a '77 Pontiac that came rusty from the factory. The trunk lid & RR quarter were rusty and they just painted over it at the factory. Rust started popping thru after 3 months and the dealer was an asshole about it, refusing to replace the rusty panels & just grinding on them & repainting. By the end of the 2nd Mich winter it looked like a 10 yr old car & I got it 'fixed' yet again & dumped it.

My "76" Trans Am..(bought new)...was the same scenario...by the end of the 3rd WNY winter it was a complete rust bucket...

 

[1971demon]

I had my '22 Challenger Redeye in for a oil change and the technician ask me if I have the bottom of the car cleaned. He couldn't believe how nice it looked, just like new. I always keep an eye on the technicians when they work on my Hellcat. A few other technicians were also looking at my Hellcat. Only in Florida, no salt, no grit, no ice and no snow...

yeah but if yer coastal in Fla...ya got salt in the air which is just as bad