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by babyslothzoo 2682 days ago
Isn't this well known? Toyotas have legendary reliability
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But their truck frames are also legendary for rusting out -- a very expensive repair.
Are they anymore so than other cars driven where they salt the roads? I have not heard that.
Anecdotal experience (Long-time Land Cruiser owner in Western Norway where the SOP at first snow is to salt the heck out of it) suggests that Toyotas do rust like mad; I work hard all year keeping my Land Cruisers (a 1981 BJ42 and a 1998 KZJ95) reasonably rust-free. I have to treat them to lanolin twice a winter season.
Yes. There was a decade or so of production truck frames for Tacoma and Tundra trucks where Toyota paid to replace the frames due to rust. It was supposedly a supplier problem.
Yes -- just search classified ads in northern states for Toyota trucks with new frames.