White paint and rust problem!!!!!

[outlawram]

I have a 99 white sport. I live in the salt belt. I took a look at my paint while washing it the other day and it looks horible. The truck looks like an easter egg. I have little rust spots everywhere but the hood,roof, and inside the box. Is there any thing I can use to get it off without having to have it buffed?

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1999 2500 white quad cab sport diesel. loaded, leather. JRE 4" Straight pipe,JRE injectors,K/N Filter,lund luner visor,lund wiper cowl,Westin nerf bars,silencer removed, 35" tires on 16. 5"x10" rims,bushwacker fender flares. Hadley air horns.

 

[Diesel Junkie]

I work at a foundry and the fallout puts little rust spots on all the horizantal surfaces. I use a product called claymagic.
You can get it from a carbrite dealer or genos. It works really well.
I go through this ritual every spring. It also really helps to keep a good wax on it. I have had good luck w/miguires gold. It is easy to put on and take off.
Good luck, Scott

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'01 3500 qc 5sp, 4x4 white w/ green graphics dark tint, flaps, tonneau,painless, Uniden Grant LT w/3' glass K-40, back up lights,silencer ring MIA.
'91 Regal 260 at Dale Hollow

 

[outlawram]

Do you use a buffer to apply it or just rags?

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1999 2500 white quad cab sport diesel. loaded, leather. JRE 4" Straight pipe,JRE injectors,K/N Filter,lund luner visor,lund wiper cowl,Westin nerf bars,silencer removed, 35" tires on 16. 5"x10" rims,bushwacker fender flares. Hadley air horns.

 

[Steve]

Don't use a buffer it will drive it right into the paint. Learned this the hard way!!!!!!!

 

[outlawram]

I got a tip from an email on using The number 1 bottle from Rust Rid. It is a water softener flush. He said to mix it very, very mild, then spray truck with it. Then rinse,wash, then wax. Said it has been used for years from people that live by salt pits, and people in the salt belt. Sounds easy to me so I am going to try it in the next week. I will let you know how it works.

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1999 2500 white quad cab sport diesel. loaded, leather. JRE 4" Straight pipe,JRE injectors,K/N Filter,lund luner visor,lund wiper cowl,Westin nerf bars,silencer removed, 35" tires on 16. 5"x10" rims,bushwacker fender flares. Hadley air horns.

 

[Bigramguy]

I have a white 97 with the same problem. The little rust specs are fairly deeply embedded in the paint. It has been there since new,i just notice it more now because the truck doesn't get washed as much. It could be fallout,or more likely it is rail dust. when the trucks are shipped by rail,little red hot pieces of metal come off the train wheels and embed themselves in the paint. Sonce most of your spots are on the sides,I would say that this is your problem,as fallout usually affects the top more than the sides. I have tried buffing them out,but they are too deep. The clay helps,with lots of wax,but they eventually come back. Only solution is a complete strip and repaint when they are that deep. Chrysler offered to pay,but i didn't want a repainted truck,so i just live with it. Sorry to hear you have the same problem.

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1997 2500 CC 4X4,Auto

 

[Diesel Junkie]

Outlaw, Just follow the directions and use elbow grease. I'm sure you will be impressed w/this product. It even pulls the fallout from the windshield of my vehicles.
If it returns I would say you are getting it from somthing else.
It is not difficult to use and I would go this route on any paint that needs a little help before I resorted to a buffing wheel because it will not remove the clearcoat.
As they say, "try it, you'll like it,".
Scott

 

[Wiredawg]

Outlawram and others:

Been there, done that: I have a white '96 gasser that had this problem deep into the finish on one fender. Had a 5-Star dealer tell me it was bees causing it because of attraction to the wax on the truck. I had servicxe manager where I bought my truck write a letter to the regional inspector. Had the right side of the bed repainted. No more problemes there. My 2000 Ram is also white and I noticed when I washed it about two months ago spots in the finish on the left side of the bed. Since it's winter up here, haven't looked too close, but could be another similar problem.

Wiredawg

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2000 4X4 SLT QC 8' bed; 6 spd, 3. 54 ; BD exhaust brake and 4" exhaust syst; TST PM2; Airlift Super Duty rear air bags; RS 9000 shocks; pyro/boost gauges in 2 gauge a-pillar mount; back preasure gauge mounted under dash; KN air filter; Brown's Welding brush/grill guard, rear bumper & headache rack; nerf bars and aluminum roll top rear cover, Warn front receiver and Hadley air horns, 20K Reese hitch,Mag-Hytec dif cover.

 

[FirstDiesel]

I myself have been the cause of creating the "easter egg" effect on two of my cars (the white car just shows it better)and proudly accept the Red Foreman (That 70's Show) dumba** award. I noticed the spots about a week after doing some work in my garage with a high speed angle grinder. I remembered that I accidentally sent a couple of "spark showers" across my vehicles parked down in the driveway. I put 2 and 2 together to figure out that the metal grindings were hot enough or stayed on the surface long enough to burn into the paint. About 50% of the spots brushed right off. I used Meguires Fine Cut Cleaner on a rag and removed probably 25% more. The rest were still there, although they gradually seem to be fading (this happened about 2 years ago). Im' guessing that maybe some of the grindings washed out, leaving a less noticable burn crater in the paint.

 

[BILLYGEE]

FYI 95% of these little rust spots are caused by little metalic particles floating in the air near the road surface coming from the dust of metallic brake shoes and pads... They usually are the most noticeable on the lower sides of the vehicle and especially on a white vehicle. That clay magic stuff works pretty well from what I'm told.

 

[jsimpson]

It has been my experience over the last forty five years of diving and building cars, that white cars rust the soonest, and black cars hardly EVER rust. Black cars absorb heat, keeping the metal hot and preventing condensation. White cars reflect heat, keeping the metal cool, encouraging condensation. All that aside, it has nothing to do with your paint problem. Wash it, use a mild polish such as those that remove swirl marks (by HAND!), and wax it with 3M pure Carnauba wax.

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[Racechaser]

I can tell you first hand that your problem is "rail dust" from working in a dealers body shop. White veh. 's show this the worst. As stated before, when they are being transported by train, hot specs of metal from the rail cars wheel rubbing against the rail create these airborn particles. Because they are red hot, they inbed in the paint. And being that the paint is fairly fresh, they inbed even deeper. What happens when you wax and polish is you take the rust off of these metal pieces by polishing them. After the wax wears off, they start rusting again. I had one customer who insisted her Olds be sent back to the factory and repainted. The problem will more than likely re-occur unless it is some kind of soot fallout. The only thing you don't need to worry about is it making your truck rust. The particles are suspended between the clearcoat and the primer on the effected panel. I'm sure if your dealer has a body shop they are VERY familiar with this problem. The effected cars in the dealership I worked in came in once every spring for a buff and wax until they were out of warranty. GM would not allow for anything else. I don't know why it effects some veh. 's and not others, it could be wind or any number of things during transport. Hope you make out ok.

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'01 2500,4WD,Ext cab,sb,auto,3:55's,sport pkg(horrible cartoon decals removed),flame red,tan lthr,clearance lamps,everything but kitchen sink. 1st Diesel,never buying another gasser!