New trailer salt corrosion.
I've purchased a 2018 Jayco that was brought down from Indiana while the entire east coast was under heavy snow. It clearly took on heavy salt build up along the way. Although it was been washed sev...
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Lynnmor wrote:Grit dog wrote:
Ok, so Fluid Film is good stuff, use it myself, but it’s not a substitute for painting. It does provide a decent , sacrificial barrier to corrosion, but if paint sticks to the metal it’s better. Fluid film is akin to oil spraying an undercarriage.
I agree with what you say, but the problem is that RV’s are built in a way that has frame, siding, etc. having crevices where one component meets the other. Salt spray gets into those areas and the never ending corrosion process starts. Fluid Film can be squirted into those crevices and is less likely to harm the various materials. Whatever you use, Fluid Film, motor oil, paint or anything else, you will never completely cover all the hidden problem areas and stop all the corrosion.
Make every effort to stay off the road with any vehicle while the roads are made unfit for use by salt and chemicals.
Something doesn’t make sense in all of this.
I live in salty road country, my old C, a 1995 Itasca, lived next to the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa for the first 15 years of its life, it’s made a trip a month or so every winter since it moved to Canada.
Still no rust issues.
I see lots of trucks and equipment around here that is on the road all winter long, year after year with no issues. Yet a very new trailer has bolts snapped from corrosion?
