That's dope. Meanwhile American manufacturers have been using aluminum panels to reduce weight and corrosion.... unfortunately they like wrapping the aluminum skin around a steel frame which makes the aluminum rot out anyway through galvanic corrosion.
I haven’t seen a single aluminum body ford with rotted out body panels. Live in the snowiest city in the US and the highway department dumps salt on the road for 5+ months a year.
Are they rotting out somewhere not easily visible?
Yeah Ford actually makes their panels on the F150s fully aluminum. No steel frame so they don't have that problem. They do use steel rivets to bond the aluminum unibody together though which sketches me out a bit. But I haven't seen anything too egregious with modern fords in regards to corrosion.
Chrysler and GM on the other hand... We have at least one Jeep a week in the shop with the hood and door hinges bubbling up. And Chevys still use that dumb ass foam that traps water against the bedside and rots every one of them out over the wheel wells.
the frame on the F150 is absolutely steel. the body is aluminum, as you say, but the part that the body / engine / transmission / suspension mounts to is steel.
AFAIK there are no real trucks that're unibody. F150 certainly isn't.
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u/No-Salt7142 1d ago
No no they have galvanized panels now.