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Rusted Ford Step/nerf bars!

Superfreak

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Year, Model & Trim Level
1996 Sport
My 96 sport is starting to rust on the Ford Factory passenger side step/nerf bar.

Anyone else have this problem. Any one repaint them? How do you remove the plastic insert on the bars?

Thanks for the info.
 



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You could try Herculining them. I've seen it done to brush guards before and it looks pretty good.
 






I was wondering something in the same nature but it's on a 86 grand am. It right by the wheel well on the front passenger side. It's two tone from grey to white and there's like rust running down the white from somewhere. Any way my question is does that come off with any thing, I mean, is there something that removes that rust like wiping away dirt?

Thanks and thei idea about herculining them sounds like it would look pretty darn good to me.
 






Superfreak
I work at a bodyshop and have repaired 5 sets of these nerf bars. Rust just starts popping up and keeps on going. Some of them were only 2 years old!
The best way to repair them is to remove them, take the plastic off (which is tricky, but possible), completely sandblast them to bare metal, etchprime them, and repaint them. then cross you fingers that the paint supplies hold up better than Fords did. lol
Our bodyshop has a rust warranty and I haven't had to redo any of my nerfbars so maybe the paint Ford uses on them just plain sucks. :-)
Hope this might have helped. But it is a VERY common problem on these nerfbars.
Rick
 






rustytr
It sounds like you probably have rust under the molding and rusty water is running down from it and leaving a stain. The quick fix is to use some rubbing compound and clean up the stain, however it WILL come back eventually and the rust will just grow under the molding.
The real fix would be to remove the molding and sandblast the rust to bare metal, prime, and repaint.
But remember! Once rust starts, it is pretty much impossible to stop it (even after sandblasting) you can just slow it down. LOL
Hope this helped you!
Rick
 






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