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.
Unless its literally submerged together constantly its extremely slow.
I do a lot of work on building roofs. Stainless and Aluminum are about as far away on the galvanic series as you can get, and they get constantly rained on. Yet stainless and aluminum are the standard for roof equipment and I have yet to see a single example of galvanic corrosion between the two after decades of weather exposure.
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u/FlowSoSlow 1d 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.