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Another 2008 (bottom) vs 2016 (top) of my truck.

 

Nice truck!

 

Obviously not my truck (not even driving my truck in the pic), but it sucks to see some in our generation starting to look like this. I drive in the salt every winter, but I take every step to prevent this and I have zero signs of rust starting. It's a lot of work, but well worth it.

Due to the shiny pillars, it looks like this truck is an 04. Sure it's normal for the year and the conditions, but I believe that wheel well rust is preventable. There's an access area over the rear wheel wells that you need to spay out often during the winter. If you look up from under the rear bumper, you can see the access to the top side of the wheel well. I spray the hell out of that every wash and coat that area with grease in the winter.





I even saw a 2010 today with all the paint flaking and hanging off the bottom of the doors and rust starting to spead on the wheel wells.

 

Hey -- the early "11th Gens" are now over 10 years old. By that time, most trucks are with their 2nd or 3rd owners and have become "daily grinders" that get used and abused in the harshest of environments. Another 10 years and a significant percentage of them will have gone off to the boneyard, and the ones that are still left and in very good condition will become fodder for impromptu parking lot conversations. Just the natural course of things, and that progression is what makes seeing 25+ year old vehicles at a car show interesting and fun!

I'll be curious to see what ages the new aluminum-bodied F-150's over time -- will it be that the under-pinnings simply rust out from beneath the truck, or will some other currently unknown malady become the Achilles heel of these models......???

 

Here's my 2006 (10yrs old). Original owner, hoping to have it 10 yrs more. I wash it maybe once every 2 months, and wax it once a year.

 

I agree. But to me, the significant cost of a vehicle is well worth the time and effort to preserve it. Plus, in my mind, I still think the 04-08 body style are the best looking F150's out there. The 97-03 were too "round" and with the 09-14, the tail gate and tail lights ruined it for me. I do like the 15+ trucks a lot though.

 

My wheel wells are starting to go, but not bad at all yet. But the front fender corners are shot. Kind of an abnormal rust pattern. None too worried about either of those, to echo ddellwo, she's a daily grinder haha.

Of course the bed supports are shot and the frame has a couple weak spots, but that's no surprise. those items should be addressed this year.

I noticed the same thing with mom's boyfriend's old work truck, a dodge ram. Those usually go first around the rear wells and you often see them shot, but that one was just barely starting to break through the paint in tiny places when she was scrapped after sending a wheel flying due to gearing failure. Most of the rest of the body was shot. Of course that truck was not cared for at all. Frame was shockingly solid though.

 

TBT

 

My 2005 purchased new 10 years and a week ago.



This was taken 2 weeks ago.
38,058.2 miles



Found a good deal on Fox shocks, so those will be ordered later this month.

 

new hood today !!!

 

Very nice truck! What headlights and taillights are those?

 

Headlights are OEM Harley Davidson headlights, you can paint your stock one's black to get that look as well.

Tailights are Spyder LED taillights, look on Amazon they will come up. I like them and have no complaints, to me they are a much better option than tinting your stock taillights because you block a huge amount of light. The spyder uses an LED array and it's bright.

 

WOW looks great!

 

thank you