I had a look under the truck while trapped in lock down, and saw bugger all rust anywhere, as a preventative is the por15 still the good stuff ?
the guys that did the service before I bought the truck do classic cars, and offer the spray on as a service, as I don’t have a hoist myself is it worth the money , would they have to wire brush or anything to prep the surface ?

 

From my understanding por15 needs a good preening job clean up of the frame etc than they coat the truck Just research good places

here in canada I use krown. It’s a rust proofing oil film that they spray in the frame and doors etc

 

I did not like POR15 at all. it was more of a plastic coat that peeled off eventually, even with good prep! I have been prepping the metal to good area as possible, rust mort, cleaning again, followed by good primer, then good paint, then oil based 3M undercoat (like firm tar). I have taken several vehicles to truck undercoating local retailer as well. They did a hot power wash, acid wash (like rust mort) , and then a heavy duty oil based undercoat.....

 

I am lucky enough to live in an area without road salt, but based on the videos I have seen recently it appears Rust Reformer with Fluid Film gives the best anti-rust performance.

 

Yeah I use an air descaler and rust reformer spray on mine.


Needle gun

Then hit with wire wheel

I use this to coat the bare metal

Finished product

 

CVH! What rust? that is a brand new frame you painted! ;P

 

I am also looking on what to do as well with mine. We have the brine that is put down here in the winter and I want this one to be treated before winter.
so looking for a good solution also.

 

I live in Florida so no salt either but I had minimal surface rust. I just coated the whole thing with the rustoleum rust reformer, not the rubberized kind, and it looks great and has held up for a few months so far. I didn't even do any prep.. but probably should. lol

 

I coated my truck a few years back with por15 and you need like perfect prepping because it started to peel off after about a year and was chalky and did not look good and I just redid it using Eastwood rust encapsulated platinum and top coated using the chassis black and it looks really great. I used the scaling tool that someone just posted earlier and it was a blessing taking off all the surface rust but what I found out happened was the por15 lifted off the surface and held in moisture so it was coming off in chunks along with metal I was pretty upset to see it but glad I removed it before it got worse. The thing is the platinum series of paints only comes in silver which was perfect because i like doing the two tone silver and black so I painted everyone once with the encapsulated then top coated just certain parts

 

Don’t get me wrong por15 is an excellent product and I will still use it in certain aspects but I found this stuff to work slightly better for me, being done by a professional I wouldn’t be too worried about por15