Anyone Try Fluid Type Undercoating Yet?
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Anyone Try Fluid Type Undercoating Yet?
Hello, everyone
I'm new here.
Wanted to see if anyone has any personal experience with that type of undercoating yet and what they think of it. I have a 2017 F-250 SD and was thinking about going with something other than the traditional type of undercoating.
I'm new here.
Wanted to see if anyone has any personal experience with that type of undercoating yet and what they think of it. I have a 2017 F-250 SD and was thinking about going with something other than the traditional type of undercoating.
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Picked up my truck at NH dealer Nov 10, 1 week later had the NH oil treatment done. It covers everything underneath and supposedly weeps into unreachable places. This treatment is not unlike many others, and the treatment they did mi truck with has the black carbon add . So everything underneath is black and moist . This franchise guy recommended redo in 2 years. We shall see .... I had a 2000 Silverado that returned to mother earth from the ground up. Frame and undercarriage disintegrated from rust . Will do whatever I can to avoid that from repeating, but the truck needs to work all Winter, plowing and logging in the woods. I use fluid film on my landscaping gear, and my snowblower, and it works very well...9 year old Ariens snoblowuh llooks near new as a result.
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Fluid film is very effective. The downside in my opinion is that some of that protection comes in the form of dirt. As dirt collects and sticks to the fluid, it becomes more solid and the dirt forms a protective skin.
I found out that LineX will also spray the underside of the truck. I need to find out more about that, but it's looking like a permanent protective solution, rather than something that has to be reapplied every season or two.
I found out that LineX will also spray the underside of the truck. I need to find out more about that, but it's looking like a permanent protective solution, rather than something that has to be reapplied every season or two.
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Picked up my truck at NH dealer Nov 10, 1 week later had the NH oil treatment done. It covers everything underneath and supposedly weeps into unreachable places. This treatment is not unlike many others, and the treatment they did mi truck with has the black carbon add . So everything underneath is black and moist . This franchise guy recommended redo in 2 years. We shall see .... I had a 2000 Silverado that returned to mother earth from the ground up. Frame and undercarriage disintegrated from rust . Will do whatever I can to avoid that from repeating, but the truck needs to work all Winter, plowing and logging in the woods. I use fluid film on my landscaping gear, and my snowblower, and it works very well...9 year old Ariens snoblowuh llooks near new as a result.
On the aluminum truck, I only bother to do the steel parts. Just the frame, suspension, trailer hitch, axles, etc.
It is true that the moist undercoating will quickly allow dirt and salt to stick to it and your frame will no longer look "shiny, black, and new" after about 1 season, but nevertheless it is protected. I re-spray mine every fall just before winter. It is obvious the "high traffic" areas have completely lost their coating of Fluid Film after just one season, such as the bottom of the axles, diff cover, bottom of springs, etc. What I like about Fluid Film is that it it won't drip like oil, and won't swell your rubber seals and electric plug grommets like oil. It also is sheep lanolin based and more environmentally friendly. It emits kind of a farmyard smell for a few weeks before disappearing. I've used Fluid Film on my past 5 Super Duty trucks.
tfsiii, whereabouts in NH are you? I'm in the Upper Valley area. Always good to see another fellow New Hampershire-ite!
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Thanks for the input! Appreciate it.
I was leaning toward the FF DIY kit but I wanted to see what the people who have used it think first.
I'm also considering some rear wheel well liners (Husky's) after I seen how much crap I power washed out of the inside of the rear bumper (aiming the nozzle up into the areas behind rear wheels), mud flaps stop next to nothing.
I was leaning toward the FF DIY kit but I wanted to see what the people who have used it think first.
I'm also considering some rear wheel well liners (Husky's) after I seen how much crap I power washed out of the inside of the rear bumper (aiming the nozzle up into the areas behind rear wheels), mud flaps stop next to nothing.
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Hey troverman, I am down in Seacoast, Exeter. Question about the fluid film application, I presume the setup you bought hooks up to air compressor? Like I said, I have used fluid film for years, and considered putting it on truck, but heard good things about this NH Oil stuff (original shop in Concord btw), and figured I would give it a try. I have no allegiance to anything though, so we shall see after this Winter....
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Hey troverman, I am down in Seacoast, Exeter. Question about the fluid film application, I presume the setup you bought hooks up to air compressor? Like I said, I have used fluid film for years, and considered putting it on truck, but heard good things about this NH Oil stuff (original shop in Concord btw), and figured I would give it a try. I have no allegiance to anything though, so we shall see after this Winter....
I've been to Exeter, nice town. More than 2 hours away from me, though.
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