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08 Undercarriage Gettin Rusty. How Should I Treat It?

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I haved an 08 thats getting a little rusty underneath. Drove it through two winters now with no treatment so its to be expected. Its not bad yet but theres def some brown there, especially on the rear-end and few other places. My question is:

How should i go about treating it? I should have been oil spraying it or undercoating it from the get-go but i havent so now i would like to do what i can to get it all back to black, then spray it or undercoat it.

 

 

Should i go underthere with some rust-converter black paint and just start bombing the whole thing????? Then maybe oil spray it?

 

Or should I just get underthere with some spray cans of 3m undercoating and coat directly over the surface rust? I would like to take care of this before winter sets in.

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I have used that KBS stuff, it seems pretty good. The only downfall to it is the regular stuff isn't UV stable so the gloss will fade. They make the Chassis Paint that isn't supposed to fade. But being as your painting underneath the fading shouldn't really matter. I just wanted to give you a heads up.

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I have used that KBS stuff, it seems pretty good. The only downfall to it is the regular stuff isn't UV stable so the gloss will fade. They make the Chassis Paint that isn't supposed to fade. But being as your painting underneath the fading shouldn't really matter. I just wanted to give you a heads up.

 

 

Thanks. I dont think that the UV protection will be necessary underneath the truck as i intend to keep it on four wheels right side up with any luck! :drool:

 

It probably wouldn't be a big deal but you can see under the truck a little with the suspension lift and it just needs a touch up. The nice thing is there is plenty of room to work under there. I will probably give it a good cleaning and add a coat of this stuff and see how that looks. Its not all rust either I was driving the truck through some steel mills and its stained brown under there so this is goin to make a tremendous difference.

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