[enlightened]

Yesterday, when I was out in the back forty acres of my local dealership looking under the three older Tacomas parked back there, that were bought back by Toyota due to the rusted frame recall, I saw one that someone had tried to paint flat black on the frame rails, but apparantly the dealer still did the ball peen hammer test and the truck failed, so it really doesn't matter if it's been painted (although it might delay the inevitable rust-through) as long as the frame has rusted out holes in it after tapping on it.

Everyone knows? that Toyota has a five year unlimited mileage warranty on the body metal NOT rusting through. I used this warranty on an '87 Toyota P/U 4x4, and it cost Toyota Corp. something like several thousand dollars to replace and paint the bed of my truck in the early nineties.

I haven't seen hardly any rust on the sheet metal of my '01 Tundra. Rust is limited to just the frame and undercarriage, which I've given the POR15 application to the last few summers. It's been through seven Michigan rust belt winters. I usually power spray under the truck once a week in winter.