Do you pull your taillight housings monthly?

mkirsch wrote:

QCMan wrote:
Sounds like either they build a crappy truck or want you to pay for a bogus service. Or someone on a forum is playing you. Things up north rust out real quick with salt use but that is rediculous.

Crappy truck yes. It's getting its fourth set of AFM lifters after seizing one at 103,000, a second at 140,750 and a third at 141250. Yes, it only ran 500 miles this last time before seizing a lifter again.

This was a forum guy telling me what *I* should have been doing to prevent the rust. Basically blaming me for the truck rusting out already.

They also figured out how to make it my fault that the AFM lifters seized. It's a really crappy forum.

That’s a bummer and a chitty round of luck with the truck.
Is it your fault it’s rusting out in 7 years? Nope. Is it Possible to have done more to prevent rust? Wouldn’t think you’d have to, but ya do.
And unless it’s a total garage queen it’s gonna rust anyway.
Buddy in IL who is OCD about his stuff and has a “mostly” winter garage queen F150. 04 with like 100k miles on it. Only winter towing and occasional winter use and I guarantee he’s undercarriage washed it almost every time etc. only took like 12 years to start bubbling paint. And some other stuff rusted out like exhaust.
Truck prices are still high right now. Time to make that beauty someone else’s pride n joy!