Galvanic corrosion requires an electrolytic solution to occur. Hence the need for sacrificial anodes on water tanks and boat motors. The water creates the galvanic cell between the dissimilar metals.
You make a point. Galvanic corrosion is bad enough that we have to use anodes on our water tanks and boat motors, but the corrosion takes many years to become a problem.
LOL, You should go buy a new F150 then. Just let any body shop work on it then. There are plenty that believe the same thing you do. it would be hard to blame anything that failed on the aluminum anyway. Those shops can't fix steel properly either. I'm not sure why Ford is requiring all the aluminum bays and certifications to support their warranty or why Mercedes bothers with all their facility inspections. And the Jaguar door in our office we had to buy a second time is just a myth.Dennis, think about this for a minute. How many aluminum flatbeds have you seen? How about aluminum stock trailers and horse trailers? How many of those have melted down around the steel springs and steel spring shackles that were "contaminating" them? ZERO!!! Is galvanic corrosion real? Of course. Is it a concern in this application? No. Not at all. Thinking that screwing a couple holes into your bed with steel screws will cause your entire bed to disintegrate and eat itself up is idiocy. How many aluminum tool boxes have you seen that have melted down due to galvanic corrosion from sitting on a steel pickup truck bed? NONE! EVER!! You know what I have seen? I've seen a lot of rusted out steel trucks and rusted out steel stock trailers. I'll take aluminum with its possible galvanic corrosion over steel with regular old red rust any day.
And they are in constant contact with liquid. That's the other component necessary. I don't drive my truck underwater.
Edit: Dangit, 300WSM beat me to it.
LOL, You should go buy a new F150 then. Just let any body shop work on it then. There are plenty that believe the same thing you do. it would be hard to blame anything that failed on the aluminum anyway. Those shops can't fix steel properly either. I'm not sure why Ford is requiring all the aluminum bays and certifications to support their warranty or why Mercedes bothers with all their facility inspections. And the Jaguar door in our office we had to buy a second time is just a myth.
It's all relative I guess. I meet people daily that have their cars hacked together and can't tell, people that can't see hail damage, paint jobs that don't belong on tractors and they are happy with it. People ***** about the "cheap paint" when the clear peels off. Most of these trucks will be traded in long before they ever have any problems. I just don't think you'll see them years down the road like we see the 70s and 80s trucks today.
I'll keep that in mind about the tail gate. I'm heading to Paul's Valley Monday to check out this 2015 F-150 4x4 Oklahoma Edition and if I l like it I'm buying. I know folks at work with the Eco boost and I hear nothing but good things about them. I got rid of my 2001 F-150 and I'm digging that Eco boost.Ford is making more mistakes than just the aluminum in regards to insurance premium increases. When they added their man step to the tail gate that jacked up the prices to ~$3k if it gets stolen. I bought another one last week. If you have one, those are a hot item BTW. Options like blind spot monitoring are becoming much more common. Now you have ~$900 tail lights. They've put an F150 logo inside their headlights. This will eliminate most aftermarket headlight use for insurance companies and limit reman capabilities. They are pushing more non-halogen too.
I'll keep that in mind about the tail gate. I'm heading to Paul's Valley Monday to check out this 2015 F-150 4x4 Oklahoma Edition and if I l like it I'm buying. I know folks at work with the Eco boost and I hear nothing but good things about them. I got rid of my 2001 F-150 and I'm digging that Eco boost.
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