I disagree with
@RAMona
Her situation was shitty… but the rust factor on any steel part is real. If you drill out a hole and don’t coat it, it will rust. I’m a year in, and while I do have some minor rust where I did a poor job of painting, but overall I am very happy. Like it so much better than the RamBar.
Im glad you are happy with your set up. I was told that unless you coat these things they will chip and end up rusting. Im not talking about drill holes rusting, they do come already drilled and the rep at Go Rhino was flabbergasted that those ####ers drilled their own mounting holes.
They also did so obviously with the rack on the bed rails and left the shavings in the bed of the truck which in no time flat rusted. What i ended up learning is that the metal is “fine steel” which is really a low grade, high carbon metal… extremely rustable. <—-made up word?
Anyhow, i was told to get it Line-X ed by the ceramic guy but i chose to get it the f off my truck… and thats when things got beyond worse.
I think a lot of the rust issue would depend on where you live, where you drive and what the truck and the rack encounter in the way of abuse.
Side note, ive also heard that the wiring is a real pain to run inside the tube… which is why they chose to zip tie it to the outside of the bar. You honestly cant make this shit up.
I am not a metallurgist or an iron worker but i could barely believe how fast those shavings rusted. Several people said, wow your truck is already rusting. It wasnt the truck! In fact the holes the drilled into the truck during the assault never did rust! They were seeing the rust from the sport bar. I just think GR could do better.
Lying Ahole actually told me the entire rack was stainless steel. Of course it makes perfect sense to me now that there was no way it could be at that price point.
(I believe GR told me that LineX ing/ painting one of those racks invalidates their warranty?)
Nice truck by the way!!
