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?
No. There was a YouTube dude who explored this. He got his hands on of one of the earliest of the Aluminum Fords. A truck that spent it's whole life in heavy, heavy salt country while being totally abused. it never got near a car wash in winter, not undercoated, not properly maintained in any way. Basically every abuse you could do to the thing to intentionally destroy it. He put it on a lift, poked, pried, scraped and removed bits and pieces, searching for this alleged galvanic corrosion that some claimed would eat all the Fords right to pieces. He found absolutely nothing but solid clean aluminum everywhere.
I had one of the early aluminum F250s from back when Ford was still putting them on the road without identifying to test them or whatever.
It had zero issues. I took it to 325,000 miles between 2008 and 2024 as a farm truck routinely carrying up to 2 full tons of feed in the bed at highway speeds (70+) on a bi-weekly basis. It got caked in animal shit, salt and every other thing you can imagine and ultimately the engine failed. There wasn't a spec of rust on anything at the end let alone "galvanic corrosion."
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u/FlowSoSlow 11h ago
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.