Got a new Truck (new to me)

George Jets said

Here is another 1989 D100 pickup showing why keeping the paint job and seams sealed is important.

Especially here in Florida with intense sun year round baking the finish and breaking it down.

Mix in the Ocean salt mist in the air, then next thing you know it's too far gone.

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First thing to go is the front edge of the roof cap at the failing drip rail seam.

Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure.





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Too far gone? I'd call that just the right amount of patina! Lol
All jokes aside it's crazy to me how cars down sound and far west will bake and surface rust. But here here in the south east they just rot from the inside out! Most of the cars or trucks I've worked on look perfect on the outside but you go to poking on them and the metal is gone and the paint is the only thing holding them together. My 01 dodge is a perfect example. It looked perfect when I bought it and within 3 or four years the bubbles started showing in the paint. 6 months later there was a basketball size hole in my door. Same happened with the cab corners. Just a bubble turned into completely gone in less than a year. They rust from the inside out.