4th gen ram rust bucket 2013

[EricBot]

Threw flares on it. I’m done repairing these disease infested fenders.I had my fill with the 3rd gen. That popped up 2 years ago


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[Sinistre1]

Are those oem flares? What did they run? Painted??

 

[17CrewCab1500]

So glad I don't have to deal with that crap here in Arizona.

Remember, it's important to wash the bottom side of the bed out when you can. Removing the taillight and spraying out the salt/crap. Build up of dirt keeps it there.
I have friends in IL that do this and don't have any rust there on their 2005.

 

[EricBot]

Are those oem flares? What did they run? Painted??

Yes they are OEM. They were 450. Couldn’t find anyone that would paint for less then 400.


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[Addicted2fishing]

I just posted the other day that I saw two 4th gens with rotted out rockers. Seems to be hit and miss. With my OCD and luck I’ll get the rust bucket.

I rinse mine very well in winter. Wash mine all the time all year round and get Krown twice a year. If a trucks rusts with my intense OCD routine it’s truly a defective product at that point lol. I fix paint chips right away too. If it’s on plastic I can sleep at night tho. Usually


But, I figure worst case Ontario I get rust there I can simply slap on some fender flares and ride out the rest of the trucks life concealing the rust. If you plan on keeping the truck for a while you should come wider removing the flares every couple years and clean under. I think soon I’m gonna remove my wheel well liners and clean in between there and see what’s going on. I’m sure it’s not good lol.

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[gypsy400]

There is foam in the fenders between the inner and outer panels.. you need to remove the plastic fender-well and spray it with a good undercoating product like Fluid film.

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[Addicted2fishing]

There is foam in the fenders between the inner and outer panels.. you need to remove the plastic fender-well and spray it with a good undercoating product like Fluid film.

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Thanks!


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[grizzstang]

This is why my truck gets Krown coated every year.

 

[EricBot]

I thought about doing undercoating on this one. Have all the fluid film supplies and compressor but between never getting around to it,and having faith a vehicle manufacturer that’s going head to head with Ford and Chevy for truck sales would have fixed the massive problem they had with the previous generation. Just made me decide Ford will be better option for me at trade in time. Seems fluid film is a waste of time and money. Better to just go to a shop or rip the foam out ourselves. No paint etc probably wouldn’t cost anything more then a hour or 2 of labor to have someone to rip that crap out


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[17CrewCab1500]

I love how people think. My truck has rust. Piece of crap! I'm going to another manufacture.

SMGDH.

You think Ford and Chevy don't have these issues!?

Google hidden rust for Chevy and Ford.

2014 Chevy's are rusting from the inside out! Toyota can't keep their damn frames from splitting in half. lol

super rant over

 

[corneileous]

Threw flares on it. I’m done repairing these disease infested fenders.I had my fill with the 3rd gen. That popped up 2 years ago


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Dang. What year model is that, and where do you live? Was that the back or the front?

But you didn’t just slap those fender flares over the rust, did you? You know that ****’s just gonna spread, right?

I wish I didn’t like my my fender flares so much because I can just imagine the rust forming as I wouldn’t see it anyways.

And I like the protection the inner fender wells in the back but at least with my old truck that didn’t have them, I could get the car was nozzle up in there to clean it.

We don’t get a lot of snow here in Oklahoma but since there’s times we get ice, the state has gotten pretty bad about striping the highways before a threat of a storm with that white, calcium chloride-lookin’ ****. There was quite a few times they put that **** on the roads, and it didn’t even do nothin’ except rain. Lol.


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[JoeCo]

Dang. What year model is that, and where do you live? Was that the back or the front?

But you didn’t just slap those fender flares over the rust, did you? You know that ****’s just gonna spread, right?

I wish I didn’t like my my fender flares so much because I can just imagine the rust forming as I wouldn’t see it anyways.

And I like the protection the inner fender wells in the back but at least with my old truck that didn’t have them, I could get the car was nozzle up in there to clean it.

We don’t get a lot of snow here in Oklahoma but since there’s times we get ice, the state has gotten pretty bad about striping the highways before a threat of a storm with that white, calcium chloride-lookin’ ****. There was quite a few times they put that **** on the roads, and it didn’t even do nothin’ except rain. Lol.


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According to his info it's a 13 from MA. And if you don't like roads coated with salt (or whatever they are using down there) when absolutely no weather hits, avoid the northeast! They pile so much on the roads it becomes a traction issue when it has nothing to melt. Evidently we are salt rich up here and just have to get rid of it all.

 

[corneileous]

I love how people think. My truck has rust. Piece of crap! I'm going to another manufacture.

SMGDH.

You think Ford and Chevy don't have these issues!?

Google hidden rust for Chevy and Ford.

2014 Chevy's are rusting from the inside out! Toyota can't keep their damn frames from splitting in half. lol

super rant over

It sucks, seems like we Ram owners really have to be especially careful with our trucks when it comes to rust but, I read quite a bit that even those new for Aluma-Duty Phords were having a little bit of rusting issues in their frames. The body’s might be aluminum, but the frames are still carbon steel.

I think I’d rather try my damnedest to keep my truck clean inside and out, and am even contemplating on buying me one of those little undercarriage washers that looks like a push broom with wheels on the bottom, and sprayers on the top that you hook a garden hose to and allows you to rinse the undercarriage of your vehicle, before I’d ever want one of them recycled beer can pickups.

I think I could deal with rust rather than this.....

Not enough resistance to activate the oh-**** connector at the gas pump...



Automated car wash....









Load shift...


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[EricBot]

I love how people think. My truck has rust. Piece of crap! I'm going to another manufacture.

SMGDH.

You think Ford and Chevy don't have these issues!?

Google hidden rust for Chevy and Ford.

2014 Chevy's are rusting from the inside out! Toyota can't keep their damn frames from splitting in half. lol

super rant over

I know for a fact Ford doesn’t . Tell me how many fords you see with rust rottting away the fenders at 3 4 5 6 years its embarrassing. Secondly who and where does it say I have to stay loyal to a manufacture?


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[corneileous]

According to his info it's a 13 from MA. And if you don't like roads coated with salt (or whatever they are using down there) when absolutely no weather hits, avoid the northeast! They pile so much on the roads it becomes a traction issue when it has nothing to melt. Evidently we are salt rich up here and just have to get rid of it all.

Yeah, after I posted that, and I clicked on his profile and saw that he was up at Massachusetts but I didn’t know how old his truck was. I guess looking at it on Tapatalk, there’s probably still going to be some information that I’m not gonna see unless I go to the website version but yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I used to run over the road as a truck driver before I moved to Oklahoma as a rock bucket yanker and I couldn’t believe it the first time I was out in Pennsylvania the next day in the winter time after a snowstorm and the roads were just solid white from all the salt that they poured on the road. We literally had salt caked all over that truck just like it had a very thick layer of powder-coating from all the salt so yeah, I know exactly what you’re talking about.


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[corneileous]

I know for a fact Ford doesn’t . Tell me how many fords you see with rust rottting away the fenders at 3 4 5 6 years its embarrassing. Secondly who and where does it say I have to stay loyal to a manufacture?


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Well of course you’re not going to see rusty fenders on a Ford because they’re aluminum. He’s probably talking about the same thing I was, about where there is steel on those trucks, which is on the chassis.

And no, I highly doubt he was saying that you have to be brand loyal, he was just saying that to jump to another brand, is not always going to get you away from the problem that made you leave the other brand in the first place.


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[EricBot]

Well of course you’re not going to see rusty fenders on a Ford because they’re aluminum. He’s probably talking about the same thing I was, about where there is steel on those trucks, which is on the chassis.

And no, I highly doubt he was saying that you have to be brand loyal, he was just saying that to jump to another brand, is not always going to get you away from the problem that made you leave the other brand in the first place.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro[/ I’m all set all I have owned is dodge. My 12 year old Stratus had zero rust,and I never washed the thing. The Rams totally different story. A week never passes that I’m not washing laying on back using 5 minutes worth of quarters in winter. It’s a Ram issue that they tried fixing with the wheel well liners out the door.


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[17CrewCab1500]

I know for a fact Ford doesn’t . Tell me how many fords you see with rust rottting away the fenders at 3 4 5 6 years its embarrassing. Secondly who and where does it say I have to stay loyal to a manufacture?


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You don't have to be loyal to a manufacture. But you're leaving one to jump ship to another. Until you find something wrong with it and then you'll bash mouth those until you find something wrong with the current.

Ford has a bad leaking third brake light. They are aware about it. Do they fix it? NO! It's cheaper for them to continue using the thin gasket until someone comes in and complains about it.

Retooling a press to fix the issue on a bedside isn't easy. Addressed in the 5th generation 1500s.


I don't see any cars out here in Arizona rusting away.

 

[Addicted2fishing]

It sucks, seems like we Ram owners really have to be especially careful with our trucks when it comes to rust but, I read quite a bit that even those new for Aluma-Duty Phords were having a little bit of rusting issues in their frames. The body’s might be aluminum, but the frames are still carbon steel.

I think I’d rather try my damnedest to keep my truck clean inside and out, and am even contemplating on buying me one of those little undercarriage washers that looks like a push broom with wheels on the bottom, and sprayers on the top that you hook a garden hose to and allows you to rinse the undercarriage of your vehicle, before I’d ever want one of them recycled beer can pickups.

I think I could deal with rust rather than this.....

Not enough resistance to activate the oh-**** connector at the gas pump...



Automated car wash....









Load shift...


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Ram ain’t much better. Next time I’m in the car wash I’ll video tape my hood waving like a piece of paper and maybe you’ll get to hear my roof caving in and popping while I go through the dryer.

Our sheet metal is liquid evidently....


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[JoeCo]

Ram ain’t much better. Next time I’m in the car wash I’ll video tape my hood waving like a piece of paper and maybe you’ll get to hear my roof caving in and popping while I go through the dryer.

Our sheet metal is liquid evidently....


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Haven't had the wavy hood before but my 13 always got that roof popping noise every time I went through the dryer. I don't recall my 11 doing that and my 17 with sunroof doesn't do it at all, thankfully.