Northeast Rust....

First post and it's a basic one. I live in northern Vermont and have so many upgrades I want to do to my 2015 Tundra but I'm hesitant without knowing how each mod will be impacted by rust. My truck is a daily driver and dont like wasting my money when equipment is rusting in a matter of months. I have lots of questions. 1st... upgrading suspension and want equipment that will last a long time not garaged in this climate. Toytec/Boss, Icon, Fox 2.0?

 

Welcome from southern Indiana! Rust is evil and definitely can ruin nice things. Is an issue where I’m at but probably not near as bad as where you live. My Tundra is still stock mostly but in the past on other vehicles I’ve coated add ons with rust preventing spray where possible. Heavy coat at mounting points. Mainly on tow hitches since they always rust first. Always test fit before coating them. I’ve decided to keep my old Jeep for any bad winter weather to help preserve my Tundra as I don’t buy much of anything unless I’m keeping it. I’ve had the Jeep for 16 years and my 91 land cruiser for 15. Good luck with your Tundra! Looks great! And anything punisher is definitely cool!

 

I just saw a thread this past week (can't remember where?) talking about rust on aftermarket suspensions. I do not have a link but the gist of it was, Bilstein and Fox are the worst when it comes to rusting but we are talking about surface rust on the stock body, not the exposed rod so it's mainly cosmetic. Icon use to have an optional coating on their stuff that was reportedly pretty good but I don't think that's an option anymore?

So the short version is this... if you want to keep your stuff looking good in the rust belt, you need to coat it with something like Fluid Film or Mavcoat.

 

Welcome from NY.
You can spray the undercarriage and none heated parts with Fluid Film or Amsoil Heavy Duty Metal Protector. This will prevent/protect it from rusting.