Own a new gladiator ? Look at your control arms for rust
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:46 am
I was at the dealership the other day checking out the new gladiators brought my fsj over and had a bunch of vultures around me. Anyway when looking at the underbody of these things i noticed the control arms and snall portions of the frame were rusting already.
The paint is flaking off the welds and i could actually scrape it off with a finger nail. All the welds on the control arms had rust and these Jeeps are litterally off the assembly line. I thought maybe it was a fluke so i looked at 5 others on the lot. Everyone of them had rust in the same spots. The welds on the frame in random spots were like this as well.
To give you an idea the control arms on my 22 year old grand cherokee zj have no rust and the welds have no rust on the unibody and frame and this Jeep has been in salt brine in the winter for over a decade in virginia.
I didnt grab pics because i had my phone in my car and forgot to take some but yea.. id look at your gladiators and see if you have rust forming. I can only imagine what they would look like in 5 years.
The paint is flaking off the welds and i could actually scrape it off with a finger nail. All the welds on the control arms had rust and these Jeeps are litterally off the assembly line. I thought maybe it was a fluke so i looked at 5 others on the lot. Everyone of them had rust in the same spots. The welds on the frame in random spots were like this as well.
To give you an idea the control arms on my 22 year old grand cherokee zj have no rust and the welds have no rust on the unibody and frame and this Jeep has been in salt brine in the winter for over a decade in virginia.
I didnt grab pics because i had my phone in my car and forgot to take some but yea.. id look at your gladiators and see if you have rust forming. I can only imagine what they would look like in 5 years.
. I also know what flaked paint looks like. It was rust plain and simple. And the paint was flaking off. No paint = rust. Mmmm your post really makes no sense at all. Because i know what i saw.
