Stainless steel can definitely rust. Leave your favorite knife in the sink for a few weeks and watch what happens, especially if it has any scratches on it.
The PNW is distinctly dry during the summer, which would compose at least half of the months you have owned it.
Also, in my experience, it’s road salt/ice melt chemicals that really exacerbate rust rather than just rain. I assume that is why I see a lot more old cars everyday in PNW compared to the northeast.
Salt was bad for cars. (Having had a 80s car that was rusting badly). There was a hole in one of my rear wheel wells. Salt/ sand got into the hollow steel and rusted from the inside out at the base of the passenger door. It was was bad all over however.
Cars are galvanized now so they don’t rust. Is that truck running bare stainless with no finish?
Yeah my truck has been running bare this whole time and I don’t plan to change that. I’ve parked it near a house by the ocean for days on end so it probably got some salty condensation on it.
It has been terrible! I’ve been asked to transport large items for friends, and had to deal with excited children wanting to take pictures with it. When there was an extended power outage recently I didn’t get the chance to have the “real” outage experience because my truck powered my house. If only I had listened to HN and Reddit.
Just poking fun :P You can't drop one hundred thousand dollars on one of the ugliest gimmick vehicles ever made and not expect at least a little bit of stick.
So is the media sensationalist, or what I need to read to understand the media was sensationalist? :)
(sorry, I'm just cranky about Duh Media characterization in general. there's a wide set of experiences in this world, and its not nefarious to describe some of them!)
Media sensationalism is a thing, and a thing that's growing (in order to compete for attention) and a thing that doesn't like Elon Musk for various reasons, some worthy, some not.
One internet-person's anecdote is not trustworthy in and of itself.
"The media" as a single mass is of equivalent trustworthiness to one internet-person's anecdote. Some media outlets are more trustworthy than others.
Take the media reports and individual anecdotes as data points to form ones own opinion.
If one person has a good experience, then they'll generally disregard "media reports" as sensationalism that, sensationally or otherwise, announce the opposite.
Hmmmm. Reading that back, I'm taking the side of Duh Media characterization. I guess that's where I've landed. But I don't feel like I'm a declarer of "fake news" for every headline I disagree with. Hmmmm.
This has ended up being a conversation with myself, sorry.
most people care about scratches because they look like shit.
paint is a bit more than just corrosion protection at this point, otherwise mfgs would just slap on the thickest toughest machine-tool grade enamel and call it a day.
