99Yuk
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I would rather invest the money into protective coating of some sort. something tar based or bedliner covering stuff
No, don't want that stuff up here. Here's the voice of experience talking now. That rubber x-liner stuff looks good and all, but doesn't retain it's flexibility at lower temps. So if a pinhole or worse a crack develops, it will let in water and salt, and that white calcium shit in behind the protective cover. Because it still loks good, you don't know that there is a problem.
Until one day you look at it and see 'the bubble' in the covering. 'What's that?', you ask. Pop open the bubble to discover that your Jeep frame has rotted from the inside out, all the while being covered with a protective covering. Turns out the 'protective covering' really just holds and traps the salt brine in so that it can't be washed off or removed.
Now we all stay away from that type of stuff. We've seen trailers, vehicles rotted away in as little as one winter due to that stuff.
The only thing that seems to work half-assed is an oil coating. And even then you've seen how well that works.