Give it a few more years. my Yukon XL 2002 is accelerating fast. It was fine till the last few years. It's my tool truck and sits....but is quickly decayingStop running it through the carwash in the winter. All that salt just gets jammed up into the drain holes and any crevice in the metal it can find and stays there. I live in the rusty northeast in a state that sprays the road with rust forming nasty chemicals every time there is even a hint of snow or ice coming and my 2010 yukon with 200k has almost no rust on the body and only surface rust on the frame. It will occasionally get washed in the winter but some of the worst cars with rust around here are those that are hitting the car wash up every week all winter long. If I had a newer vehicle I might try spraying the underside down with fluid film but again, if you are constantly washing all winter it’s just going to quickly wear off.
We had a 2002 Yukon xl before this one. If you look at the two model years you will see the rockers aren’t as exposed so they don’t tend to rust out as fast on the 2010. The bottom of the door mostly covers and protects them. I check the frame and anything structural or suspension related pretty regularly as we tow horses with it every week so I’m pretty confident the 2010 has already another 5 or 6 years left. I will agree though that our 2002 did deteriorate pretty rapidly. We got rid of it as soon on as I started getting uncomfortable of what was left of the frame. The one thing I did love on the 2002 was it had the 5.3 engine without displacement on demand. I have had to rebuild the engine twice on the 2010 because of that crappy lifter design. The last time I did a new cam and full delete. Don’t buy a newer Yukon that still has DOD.Give it a few more years. my Yukon XL 2002 is accelerating fast. It was fine till the last few years. It's my tool truck and sits....but is quickly decaying
Fixed that for you.
Here in Saskatchewan they often use potash instead of salt. Big potash mines here. Potash eats metal too.Anyway you look t it, its SAD! Do car mfg's subsidize the road salt they use? It's bad here when they started using mag chloride. Before they used gravel. It was bad, sand blasting your car then hitting it with salt water. Sad for sure.
Just a different kind of salt.Here in Saskatchewan they often use potash instead of salt. Big potash mines here. Potash eats metal too.