Rocky Road Sliders Very Rusted

[sporty87]

I have the Rocky Road Super Sliders on my 2010 4Runner SR5 and I added 3/8" thick spacer plates where the sliders are mounted to the frame to extend the sliders out 3/8" and they work and look great. These sliders are well made but with 30,000 miles on my truck and 25,000 miles on the sliders, no off road or beach wheeling they are so rusted and corroded underneath (I mean really bad). The parts of the sliders that you see are not as bad but still show rust in many spots. For something that is powder-coated these look like they are 15 years old underneath with rusted metal flaking off. I'm not sure but these have only been on my truck for about 3 years and this amount of rust is far beyond what I expected. It looks like I'll have to remove them and use Por-15 on them to stop the rust.

 

[SouthernSS]

Rust is a fact of life, especially if you live in a state like New York who salts their roads. I'd imagine it's only surface rust though, so just steel brush it off and throw some rust converting spray paint on it.