Note at the start: not mine. So, so not mine.

But man does this suck. Road salt and paint? No fun. Buddy, I feel for you: one major complaint, shit paint job !!!!! - ADVrider

“New Patrol as of April ‘07 after one year using as my primary transportation and 14,500 klms. I’m not afraid to use it in the mud. I run knobbies from Oct. to April. We use salt on the roads here in Ohio. This is probably the main reason for the rust, but I don’t think salt made the paint fall off. Is the paint falling off your rig? The tub and the tank are holding up fine but all three finders will have to be blasted and painted this summer”

The hard part is, what does he do about it?

I gotta say, I’m glad we live in a land of mild winter. Eugene doesn’t even keep road salts and what-not on hand, because we just don’t get much snow. We got some snow this winter (just before I got the Patrol, I’m sorry to say), and it was the most snow I’ve seen here ever.

The folks on ADV do have some suggestions and insights. Overall it sounds like the problem is less the paint, and more just how highly corrosive the road salts are.

From one Patrol owner to another, good luck, bro — I hope that paint gets sorted out, and you find a way to keep next winter from eating into it so badly.

Follow the whole discussion: one major complaint, shit paint job !!!!! - ADVrider