My New 2013 Chevy Silverado Frame is Rusting Away with 300 miles

[Jsdirt]

Why not use bedliner for undercoating?

[sdeeter19555]

Some guys get the rear wheel wells sprayed for noise...it was an option when I got mine sprayed. My concern is that its not completely water proof...and water could get between the liner and metal. And it definitely won't stick to the waxy stuff the frame is coated with...

Why not use bedliner for undercoating?

[Jsdirt]

That's the main reason I use motor oil - nothing will stay put under there for very long. I find coatings just crack, and let sand, salt and water get held against a section of the frame. After that crap ages it's almost better to just have a bare frame and continually oil it down. These days we know that'll never happen on a cold day in hell ...

[rdbaja]

after 3 days the paint has dried, the glossy look has faded some, so Im grateful they did something........I feel remorseful for my dealer because GM threw it at them,they are nice people with not much corporate support from GM,from what I can tell. They did their best and even outsourced it trying to get the best job done, so at least my truck wasn't forgotten about. Guess the whole thing has just blindsided me since it was going on for so long.........life goes on.

Edited January 31, 2015 by rdbaja

[Btuggle88]

Well I'm not trying to defend, start, or even get involved but the GM dealership didn't do the crap job the Dodge dealership did right. Some dealerships don't have body shops anymore they outsource to independent shops.

[jimlem]

How? Just pour it in a pump can and spray it on?

 

so long

j-ten-ner

My grandfather told me about this years ago. They used to do it with brushes and a big bucket of collected used oil. (in the snow, uphill, both ways). They also used to take motorcycle chains, heat them in an oven on hi for about a half an hour, then drop them into a bucket of used motor oil and let them cool. He said that was all the service your chain needed for at least a year. I guess used oil is not necessarily a waste product.

[j-ten-ner]

Maybe I've got the wrong picture in my head. But doesn't it drip all over the place?

 

Even if it doesn't wouldn't it leave a trail when you're driving in the rain?

Not judging, just wondering if this is not a little sketchy environmental wise?

 

Since I'm driving a truck with a V8 I'm certainly not a tree hugger. Don't get me wrong. But I'm trying to keep it somewhat reasonable.

 

so long

j-ten-ner

[sdeeter19555]

Any undercoat will drip, but you only use a couple quarts of NEW oil for the entire underside...big trucks leak more than that in a day, everyday. Used oil has its own issues, the reason I don't use it.

 

The initial time is worst, once you get the dust built up, it takes less oil and almost no drips. I sprayed my truck a few weeks ago, it left almost no drips in my driveway.

 

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[Jsdirt]

Sure, it drips after I first spray it. It'll make a mess of the driveway for a couple days until nature cleans it up.

 

Like Sdeeter said - one heavy truck will leak more than that in a day. Let alone the thousands of hydraulic lines that burst in trash trucks and off-road equipment every single working day, spilling a MINIMUM of 5 gallons at a whack. We all still have water to drink, and food to eat.

 

Just like air pollution. As an asthmatic, I'll be the first to go if the air is truly polluted, so sleep well.

 

A little oil won't kill you, no matter what the media tries to brainwash you into thinking. Back in my grandfather's day they used to dump THOUSANDS of gallons of GASOLINE, leftover from the refining process, into the ground, or the local river .... because it was too dangerous and flammable to be of any use! Not to mention the thousands of gallons of motor oil that went the same way. And what did that do to the earth's population? Hmmm ....

 

90% of the driving public gets their oil changed at quick-lube joints these days, & the other 9.9999% would never dump their oil like that. Today everything is cleaner than it's ever been .... yet people all around me still die of cancer.

 

I still have asthma, even after all the money wasting, engine choking, & unreliable pollution-control systems installed on every car for the past 40 years ....

[Keith Jenkins]

I have a 2013 silverado 1500 that the frame is completely rusted and dealers won't eveb talk trade even though they sold it to me new!

[swathdiver]

5 hours ago, Keith Jenkins said:

I have a 2013 silverado 1500 that the frame is completely rusted and dealers won't eveb talk trade even though they sold it to me new!

You should have taken care of it more often.  All that is fixable though, you can get replacement parts and weld them in.

[CamGTP]

That frame is junk. Get a used frame or buy a new one if you want to keep the truck.

[Robby Shutts]

I also have a 2013 Silverado where the frame is completely screwed I just paid 10 grand for it and when I took the spare tire out it was a mess I'm very upset about this situation and come to find out there's a TSB out on it

[davester]

And what?  It's a used, 12 year old truck.  If it was treated well, the frame would still be fine, but it wasn't, and most likely the seller knew it and was dumping it to you, an unsuspecting buyer.

Edited March 4, 2025 by davester

[CamGTP]

Always get a pre-purchase inspection on older trucks.