I should have lifted both sides of my mat to show that that fluid film found the seam on both sides of my truck bed. That black coating in the bed was the factory spray on that was in there when I bought the truck. That didn’t seem to stop the fluid film from finding its way in the seam, and I did not even realize there was a seam in the bed. One other note, I have never sprayed even a garden hose under my truck since I treated the bottom with fluid film using a spray gun that I bought on eBay that is specifically for spraying fluid film, and I also used about six of the spray cans of fluid film that can be bought at Lowe’s for $9.98 each
@@alextsichlis4858 I have a few update videos on UA-cam of the two-year inspection and the three-year inspection under my truck before winter to see if I need to touch things up. I did do some touch up in November 2020. in the three-year inspection video, there’s a couple frame area spots that were starting to rust that I guess I missed, the top of my rear stabilizer bar that runs parallel to the rear axle housing, the rear axle on top, and for some reason, it shows in my 3 yr inspection video.... fluid film will not stick to the drive shafts. I have seen other videos on UA-cam about people complaining that they can’t even get paint to stick to the driveshaft of the ram pick ups. One guy commented that centrifugal force just flings it off over time. I really coated my driveshaft with fluid film literally by hand, as though I was putting suntan lotion on.. maybe the same lesson I learned as a commercial painter applies here. I was told by an inspector when I was painting scaffolding we made for liquid natural gas tankers. The paint was not allowed to be more than four mills thick, you can practically see through four mills of paint. The engineer/inspector said, the thicker you put it on, The sooner it comes off..I’m not really concerned about the driveshafts rusting, I have never seen or heard of a driveshaft failing because it was rusty. My main concern was the sheet-metal/bodywork, my brake and fuel lines, my frame..I bought that 36 inch long attachment to the spray cans on eBay that attaches to the can of fluid film for going in all of the holes on the frame, all the body plugs, I actually went all the way up to the roof around the windshield frame and the door posts with that wand. I actually took my time and spent five days spraying my truck with fluid film.. my GMC Canyon and I bought new, and I did not rust proof because the owners manual said I would void the #Warranty, it was so rusty, that having a state inspector do the annual state inspection on my truck, the guy said, this frame is going to fail here in the back around the bumper and under the bed. He said it’s getting pretty thin. There was actually nothing under that truck it wasn’t rusty.. I lost the brakes from rust two times, the fuel line rusted at the fuel pump and sprayed gasoline on the road for about 5 miles till somebody pulled me over and told me I was trailing gasoline.. I have never sprayed water underneath my ram with a pressure washer, not even a garden hose. I rely on rain water to rinse the salt off in the spring. The salt really isn’t doing any harm underneath my truck because everything is covered with fluid, and I don’t want to possibly rinse off the fluid film. I realize that can’t happen just spraying it with the house once, but, The rain water probably helped rinse the FF off the driveshafts.. I did re-spray just touchups under my truck in November/2020, not even a half of a spray can.. I also hand coated my chrome bumpers, grill, and my chrome wheels with a healthy dose of fluid film before winter, and I left it on their thick. You really can’t see it, although it does attract dirt that gets stuck on the surface which I don’t mind, because it washes right off with car washing soap in the spring... I see so many ram trucks rotting out around the outside of all the wheel arches, the hoods just above the grill all the way across, the bottoms of the tailgates, the bottoms of the doors, it just makes you sick to see that Tim, mostly fleet vehicles that the companies don’t know or don’t care, and the people driving them, it’s not their truck what do they care. I also see the bumpers on many trucks rotting out, Not just a ram truck bumpers, it’s mostly General Motors trucks. Every time I see them while I’m driving around, I think to myself, if you had only spent a few bucks That could’ve been prevented very easily
@@alextsichlis4858 I just did a fourth undercarriage touch up with fluid film on this truck. It needed it in scattered little places where I missed with my spraygun. Such as the back side of bolts sticking down through the floor I suppose for holding things like seat brackets and seatbelts. One side would have fluid film on it and the other side didn’t, which rusted on the side that didn’t have it. Then the front driveshaft and the final driveshaft both, fluid film just does not stick to drive shafts. I think centrifugal force spins it off. I know I coated both drive shaft with my bare hands when the truck was five days old with fluid film. I was slapping it on there. And today, they were both orange with rust here in October/2021 when I crawled under there to do yet another inspection before its fifth winter.. I see zero rust on the tow hitch, inside the bumpers, on fuel lines or gas lines, I noticed a few little spots of rust starting on my oil pan of the engine. I never really sprayed that. It looks like rust starting on the oil pan in places where it may have gotten a stone chip. But I sprayed it this year.. I respray the bottom seams of the door under the door, I really sprayed the exposed underneath part of the quarter panels again. I guess I put about 16 ounces of fluid film out of a new 1 gallon can under there. I also sprayed the bottom of the tailgate door again.. it’s holding up pretty well. It’s prepared for winter now under the truck but I have to clean the truck, wax it with carNuba wax, and coat all the chrome with fluid film again. I leave that stuff on all winter. I do not wash the truck with soap all winter. If it dries out, I will hose the salt off at home low pressure, not my pressure washer. So far so good.. The reason I am so nitpicky about this truck is, this truck cost me more money than I paid for my first house. I’m retired so I don’t put a lot of miles on it. I think I have around 12,000 miles on it now and it is a 2017 here in 2021. But it does sit outside all year, and when the township I live in starts salting the roads in November, that salt stays under the truck on everything until we get a good rain storm in April. That’s when the bottom of the truck gets cleaned of the salt. When we get a heavy rain storm in the spring time, I will actually go out and drive for the purpose of rinsing the salt from under my truck. Because the way I look at it, the splashing and driving put the salt where it wants to go, so the driving in clean rainwater will go to those same places and rinse the salt away. Thankfully, all those places are coated with fluid film so it won’t harm anything, I hope I have everything covered..So far so good going into its fifth winter here in November 2021
@@Jodyrides Hi Jody, thank you for the update. I could also share that I've been fluid filming my two cars for two years now. One has virtually no rust and the other some surface rust underneath. I've sprayed everything including inside the frame rails and neither car has shown to worsen. No rust noted on the rust free car and the other one hasn't gotten any worse, which is encouraging. Perhaps I will power wash it next spring and apply some POR-15 and then fluid film it
I just checked my factory spray on bedliner on my 2017 ram .. It has been seven years since I sprayed under the truck with fluid film. Dad found its way into the bed of my truck through the floor seam that I did not even know it was there… so far so good. I don’t see the factory spray on bedliner, giving up its grip at all due to the penetrations properties of fluid film… I only sprayed under my truck one time back in 2017.. I will be back under the truck to do another annual inspection and if you needed touchups here and there. I’ll make a video.
i’ll get to it. Those fluid film stains. The crypt into the bed of my truck are there to prove a point in my video. I only sprayed under this truck one time. That stuff travels in all those little pinholes, and it has stayed in the bed of my truck for six years. Going on seven years now. That’s why I point out how that stuff is still coaching in protecting the bed of my truck from Underneath. Just from that one application in 2017.
I showed under my ram pick up in my latest video here on UA-cam, now that it is the middle of October 2023. I got a good day to do that. So if you wanna see what it looks like under my truck as of my latest video going into the seventh winter since I sprayed under my ram pick up with fluid film to protect it from the salt. It’s now on UA-cam.
This needs to be part of their PR campaign this is probably the best commercial I've seen yet for the product
Still better than having rust chipping away ur car 🤦🏽♂️
He didnt say it was a bad thing
@@1991tommygunhis vocal tone and hand movement with the rubber mat suggests that he’s annoyed at the stain.
That’s actually pretty neat and good to know 👍
Awesome, you just answered the question i had. Thanks 😊
Thanks for sharing.
I should have lifted both sides of my mat to show that that fluid film found the seam on both sides of my truck bed. That black coating in the bed was the factory spray on that was in there when I bought the truck. That didn’t seem to stop the fluid film from finding its way in the seam, and I did not even realize there was a seam in the bed. One other note, I have never sprayed even a garden hose under my truck since I treated the bottom with fluid film using a spray gun that I bought on eBay that is specifically for spraying fluid film, and I also used about six of the spray cans of fluid film that can be bought at Lowe’s for $9.98 each
How has the undercarriage held up over the years? Have you done any touch ups in the meantime?
@@alextsichlis4858
I have a few update videos on UA-cam of the two-year inspection and the three-year inspection under my truck before winter to see if I need to touch things up. I did do some touch up in November 2020. in the three-year inspection video, there’s a couple frame area spots that were starting to rust that I guess I missed, the top of my rear stabilizer bar that runs parallel to the rear axle housing, the rear axle on top, and for some reason, it shows in my 3 yr inspection video....
fluid film will not stick to the drive shafts. I have seen other videos on UA-cam about people complaining that they can’t even get paint to stick to the driveshaft of the ram pick ups. One guy commented that centrifugal force just flings it off over time. I really coated my driveshaft with fluid film literally by hand, as though I was putting suntan lotion on.. maybe the same lesson I learned as a commercial painter applies here. I was told by an inspector when I was painting scaffolding we made for liquid natural gas tankers. The paint was not allowed to be more than four mills thick, you can practically see through four mills of paint. The engineer/inspector said, the thicker you put it on, The sooner it comes off..I’m not really concerned about the driveshafts rusting, I have never seen or heard of a driveshaft failing because it was rusty. My main concern was the sheet-metal/bodywork, my brake and fuel lines, my frame..I bought that 36 inch long attachment to the spray cans on eBay that attaches to the can of fluid film for going in all of the holes on the frame, all the body plugs, I actually went all the way up to the roof around the windshield frame and the door posts with that wand. I actually took my time and spent five days spraying my truck with fluid film.. my GMC Canyon and I bought new, and I did not rust proof because the owners manual said I would void the #Warranty, it was so rusty, that having a state inspector do the annual state inspection on my truck, the guy said, this frame is going to fail here in the back around the bumper and under the bed. He said it’s getting pretty thin. There was actually nothing under that truck it wasn’t rusty.. I lost the brakes from rust two times, the fuel line rusted at the fuel pump and sprayed gasoline on the road for about 5 miles till somebody pulled me over and told me I was trailing gasoline..
I have never sprayed water underneath my ram with a pressure washer, not even a garden hose. I rely on rain water to rinse the salt off in the spring. The salt really isn’t doing any harm underneath my truck because everything is covered with fluid, and I don’t want to possibly rinse off the fluid film. I realize that can’t happen just spraying it with the house once, but, The rain water probably helped rinse the FF off the driveshafts..
I did re-spray just touchups under my truck in November/2020, not even a half of a spray can.. I also hand coated my chrome bumpers, grill, and my chrome wheels with a healthy dose of fluid film before winter, and I left it on their thick. You really can’t see it, although it does attract dirt that gets stuck on the surface which I don’t mind, because it washes right off with car washing soap in the spring...
I see so many ram trucks rotting out around the outside of all the wheel arches, the hoods just above the grill all the way across, the bottoms of the tailgates, the bottoms of the doors, it just makes you sick to see that Tim, mostly fleet vehicles that the companies don’t know or don’t care, and the people driving them, it’s not their truck what do they care. I also see the bumpers on many trucks rotting out, Not just a ram truck bumpers, it’s mostly General Motors trucks. Every time I see them while I’m driving around, I think to myself, if you had only spent a few bucks That could’ve been prevented very easily
Thank you for the detailed answer Jody. I just fluid film my vehicles not too long ago. Im looking forward to see how they hold up this coming spring.
@@alextsichlis4858
I just did a fourth undercarriage touch up with fluid film on this truck. It needed it in scattered little places where I missed with my spraygun. Such as the back side of bolts sticking down through the floor I suppose for holding things like seat brackets and seatbelts. One side would have fluid film on it and the other side didn’t, which rusted on the side that didn’t have it. Then the front driveshaft and the final driveshaft both, fluid film just does not stick to drive shafts. I think centrifugal force spins it off. I know I coated both drive shaft with my bare hands when the truck was five days old with fluid film. I was slapping it on there. And today, they were both orange with rust here in October/2021 when I crawled under there to do yet another inspection before its fifth winter.. I see zero rust on the tow hitch, inside the bumpers, on fuel lines or gas lines, I noticed a few little spots of rust starting on my oil pan of the engine. I never really sprayed that. It looks like rust starting on the oil pan in places where it may have gotten a stone chip. But I sprayed it this year.. I respray the bottom seams of the door under the door, I really sprayed the exposed underneath part of the quarter panels again. I guess I put about 16 ounces of fluid film out of a new 1 gallon can under there. I also sprayed the bottom of the tailgate door again..
it’s holding up pretty well. It’s prepared for winter now under the truck but I have to clean the truck, wax it with carNuba wax, and coat all the chrome with fluid film again. I leave that stuff on all winter. I do not wash the truck with soap all winter. If it dries out, I will hose the salt off at home low pressure, not my pressure washer. So far so good..
The reason I am so nitpicky about this truck is, this truck cost me more money than I paid for my first house. I’m retired so I don’t put a lot of miles on it. I think I have around 12,000 miles on it now and it is a 2017 here in 2021. But it does sit outside all year, and when the township I live in starts salting the roads in November, that salt stays under the truck on everything until we get a good rain storm in April. That’s when the bottom of the truck gets cleaned of the salt. When we get a heavy rain storm in the spring time, I will actually go out and drive for the purpose of rinsing the salt from under my truck. Because the way I look at it, the splashing and driving put the salt where it wants to go, so the driving in clean rainwater will go to those same places and rinse the salt away. Thankfully, all those places are coated with fluid film so it won’t harm anything, I hope I have everything covered..So far so good going into its fifth winter here in November 2021
@@Jodyrides Hi Jody, thank you for the update. I could also share that I've been fluid filming my two cars for two years now. One has virtually no rust and the other some surface rust underneath. I've sprayed everything including inside the frame rails and neither car has shown to worsen. No rust noted on the rust free car and the other one hasn't gotten any worse, which is encouraging. Perhaps I will power wash it next spring and apply some POR-15 and then fluid film it
Now it is getting under the spray liner and will release that to flake off
I just checked my factory spray on bedliner on my 2017 ram .. It has been seven years since I sprayed under the truck with fluid film. Dad found its way into the bed of my truck through the floor seam that I did not even know it was there… so far so good. I don’t see the factory spray on bedliner, giving up its grip at all due to the penetrations properties of fluid film… I only sprayed under my truck one time back in 2017..
I will be back under the truck to do another annual inspection and if you needed touchups here and there. I’ll make a video.
I am expecting you gonna show undercoat after 3 years instead of the bed stains. Wtf
i’ll get to it. Those fluid film stains. The crypt into the bed of my truck are there to prove a point in my video. I only sprayed under this truck one time. That stuff travels in all those little pinholes, and it has stayed in the bed of my truck for six years. Going on seven years now. That’s why I point out how that stuff is still coaching in protecting the bed of my truck from Underneath. Just from that one application in 2017.
I showed under my ram pick up in my latest video here on UA-cam, now that it is the middle of October 2023. I got a good day to do that. So if you wanna see what it looks like under my truck as of my latest video going into the seventh winter since I sprayed under my ram pick up with fluid film to protect it from the salt. It’s now on UA-cam.
Settle down Sally .
Potty mouth!!!
It traveled uphill from the air
Could be, but I think it’s capillary action
Should reapply every year.