I need some help with my truck. It's an 04 Screw and both cab corners are rusting horribly. Anyone know what my options are?

 

Sand,treat,prime,& paint.

 

Pics?

The rust has to be cut out, new metal welded in and painted.

When you wash the truck hose out the inside of the fenders, underbody and door lips. Spray them with grease or old oil every winter. Only way to avoid rust is to buy a winter beater. No other way around. Everything else just slows the rust down.

 

Same thing going on with mine. It's just surface rust at this point, and hasn't gone all the way through. I have it going into a body shop in a couple of weeks to get fixed.

Gotta love New England winters.

 

damn, I havent seen an '04+ that was rusty around here and they dump salt on the roads.

The Chevy's and Dodge's get rusty but the Fords seem to hold up.

 

My passenger side cab corner started rusting, I found it when I was doing the rustoleum of the rockers and flares. I saw a bubble in the paint and knew exactly what it was. After sanding there was a quarter size place of rust. I cut it out and welded in a patch after sanding the inner portion of the corner and applying weld through primer. I shouldn't have any more problems from that side but I may out of the other since it hadn't shown through yet. Somehow water gets inside the body between the outer rocker skin and the inner, It may be condensation or it may be a very small leak from the third brake light and running down one side or another I don't know.

 

We are all screwed. If you State decided to use the new "Liquid Calcium" on the snowy roads, ( If you see them Spray the roads,) the crap they use, in it's liquid form gets into every nook and cranny under the truck. You can't get this crap out between the spot-welded seams.
It gets in there are rusts from the inside to the outside. Usually the paint is the last to go. The state figures since they dont have to spend big $$$ sweeping up sand in the spring anymore, this is a much better system. They get new trucks every few years, (on your tab) but our private-owned vehicles, too bad!
Did you know the the major ingredient in the snow-melting calcuim, (AKA steel eater) in molassis? Sticky, adhears to the underside, works into everything and eats steel.

Check out older trucks rear bumpers, pained or chrome, it don't matter, see the rust-through holes? started from the back side.
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I got mine fixed by a local body shop this weekend. Both corners were rusted so bad, that the sheet metal had to be replaced, and the column behind the door repainted. It came out nicely, and the shop was more than reasonable ($400 to fix both sides, and touch-up all the scratches around my truck).

I'm glad it's taken care of, but it still makes me sick that a 6 year old truck that originally cost $40k is rusting up like that. Those are the only rust spots on the vehicle though, so I should be in good shape going forward.

 

Look undernieth, on the fender lips, and drop the spare tire.
Rust never sleeps!

 

Which body shop? I also live in Hartford area and haven't gotten a quote for over a grand for same repair and paint.

 

I have small amounts of rust on the corners of the doors. Like a tiny amount. I plan on getting mine repaired one of these years. It certainly isn't bad. But I do want to eventually take care of it.

 

I've got the same rust on my 05. It's completely rusted through on the passenger side and on the way to rusting through on the drivers side. To cut out the old corners, weld in new ones, and respray and blend the corners it's costing me around $1100.