Chrome + winter + salt = F winter!!

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So, I was at work today and decided to rinse off my 2012 1500 Laramie to get all the damn salt off my truck and the chrome. While doing so I notice the salt over the years has started to eat away at the chrome on my running board on the driver side in 4 places. All there the black plastic step meets the chrome. F YOU winter!!!! Guess it's time to buy some black running boards now! Smh. Im going to be super pissed if this happens to my rims!!!
 

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makes me happy I live in Oregon - no salt on the roads
 

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I hate winter, my truck is a salt covered mess! :(
 

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seems like a perfectly reasonable reason to get a new set of black boards to me!
 
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I hate winter, my truck is a salt covered mess! :(

Mine was too. I try to rinse it off weekly in the winter after the first snow and salt. There must have already been cracks in my chrome running boards and Maryland LOVES to go overboard with the damn salt! I so need to move south!!!! I HATE WINTER
 

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What are those tires? Nice looking truck
 

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Tell us more about those grille inserts. Looks aftermarket, maybe.
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Grille is stock. Straight off showroom floor

You have a closer pic? Im having a hard time figuring out what type that is. Might be because of the sun but it looks like a chrome wire mesh pattern.
 

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spend some $$ on stainless.black looks like crap after 2 seasons.it fades and looks ******.at least mine do.
 
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You have a closer pic? Im having a hard time figuring out what type that is. Might be because of the sun but it looks like a chrome wire mesh pattern.

I'll take one for you tomorrow when it's light out. I zoomed in on the current pic.
 

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Ohh, its a 12. No wonder I didn't recognize it. I have been thinking that a mesh like that would look good on my truck but they dont make them stock like that anymore. I dont think the 12s will fit my truck, 14.
 

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Mine look like crap too. No where the same quality as my bumpers that are fine. Salt sucks. my underneath is all rusty not to long after it rolled of the dealer lot.
 

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try stainless. that's what I went with. I'm kinda into low maintenance.
 
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