New galvanized trailer, how to protect from corrosion

[jimmyj]

Hi all. I just bought a galvanized utility trailer and on the way home I had to drive on a gravel road that they had just graded and sprayed calcium chloride. I had planned to wash the guck off the trailer when I got home but I forgot and today when I went out I noticed some pretty bad pitting on the trailer where the road grime had splashed up on it. I washed most of it off but there is definite pitting and I want to fix it along with preventing any further issues.

What do you all think about this? Of course I will be calling the trailer vendor, but I have 2 other friends who have bought from this dealer and their trailers are fine even after a few years, it's just me with the issue so I can only conclude it would be the calcium chloride (neither of my buddies live in the country and they don't have to deal with the stuff).

Any thoughts?

 

[BLSXJ]

I'd pick up a spray can of "cold galvanizing"... touch up the spots.

then get the trailer undercoated.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

I'm having trouble believing that calcium chloride did visible damage that fast. I'd be talking to the seller.

 

[oosik]

I agree with TKOMark. If there is something that aggressively corrosive being sprayed on your gravel roads its certainly not calcium chloride. Its really good that you did not stop and get out and stand in the stuff. Any salt product will eventually corrode but not that quickly.

More than likely the pitting was already there - you just noticed it when you got home and saw the road grime splashed up on the trailer.

 

[LD1]

Agree with above. Do you have any pictures?