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I had some surface rust on the rockers and aroun the wheel wells from rock chips and it being a work truck. I ground it off primered paint and bedliner the rockers and put flares on to cover the miss matched paint around the wheel wells
One day the bed wil come off and get por15 under neath along with the frame

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In my 2002, both wheel wells, and the bed, under the doors was rusting bad, a guy i know owns a body shop, i gave him 1000, he repainted the bed. cut out and welded new metal under the doors and wheel wells and other things. That was worth the money, to me atleast.

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POR15 is awsome
just coat the whole problem area on the fender not just where its rusting
ill be doing this in the spring along with lots of rust inhibitor paint for the frame and every thing else under the truck and bed liner on rockers and doors

POR is good stuff if you caugh it soon enough as Deputy mentioned. I was able to stop the rust at the bottom of the tailgate The other thing you have do is get the salt off as soon as possible. Below freezing the metal will oxidize very slowly, but above 32, it just starts eating the metal.

I found a couple fairly small rust bubbles on the tailgate of my 05 yesterday, nothing on the fenders yet though. Pretty good so far considering it sits out all year and is driven in the winter.

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I had the same issue on my'04. Body shop wanted way too much to fix it so I did it myself which didn't come out half bad. I sanded it all down and put rust converter on it, body filler, primer and paint. I had Bushwacker Extend-a Fenders already painted to match my truck and ready to go after I was done with my body work just to hide my imperfections. I also installed the inner wheel well liners at the same time.

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2004 DODGE RAM 2500 LARAMIE w/ THE HEMI