Some frame rust ...your opinions please?
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Some frame rust ...your opinions please?
I have a 98 Tacoma that's been in California its entire life (not at the beach). As you can see from the photos below, there is some rust on the frame. My Taco is covered by Toyota's warranty extension for frame rust.
I took it to be inspected at a local dealer who seemed unfamiliar with the warranty coverage and process. They said it's just surface rust and not covered (and don't worry).
What do you think?
What would you do?
Thanks
I took it to be inspected at a local dealer who seemed unfamiliar with the warranty coverage and process. They said it's just surface rust and not covered (and don't worry).
What do you think?
What would you do?
Thanks
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usually, the extended warranty is for PERFORATION rust, as in, rotted all the way through. i don't know the specifics of today's warranties though, as my truck is 22 years old.
what you have there looks easier to fix and be done with it, rather than wait for it to rot further and try to claim through toyota.
get some steel wool, scrub those rust spots, and apply POR-15, rustbullet, or similar.
what you have there looks easier to fix and be done with it, rather than wait for it to rot further and try to claim through toyota.
get some steel wool, scrub those rust spots, and apply POR-15, rustbullet, or similar.
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That's not worth a warranty claim at all.
As tj884 said, just get yourself some steel wool or a wire brush, scrape the hell out of it and hit it with some POR, paint, etc and you'll be fine.
The more time you spend scraping it off, the better it will be. You can never completely get rid of rust, but the more you get off now the better off you will be in the long run.
Fink
As tj884 said, just get yourself some steel wool or a wire brush, scrape the hell out of it and hit it with some POR, paint, etc and you'll be fine.
The more time you spend scraping it off, the better it will be. You can never completely get rid of rust, but the more you get off now the better off you will be in the long run.
Fink
Last edited by Fink; 09-13-2011 at 11:31 AM.
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That's not a lot of rust, but why take the chance? You don't want your frame to crack at highway speeds, do you? Because it can happen! The frame cracks, you lose steering, flip over 20 times, get ejected and get run over by a semi-trailer. You don't want that to happen, do you? That's what can happen if the frame cracks. Did I say that rust will cause it? No. But in case your frame cracks, now you know what can happen. Not that it will. That is very unlikely. But it can. Think about that.
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