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Originally Posted by imjin
I know that calcium chloride sh!t they drop on the roads when it snows eats the hell out of undercarriages. My buddy is a maintenance manager at VDOT and he's showed similar damage to their dump trucks that drop the stuff. It was as if you parked it in salt water for a year with the same flaking rust and gaping holes on trucks that weren't more than 5 years old.
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This is a good part of the problem. I'm not excusing any toyota involvement (poor deisgn, coating, etc), but the move away from sand towards more salt and chemicals has been a huge problem, IMHO. I believe there was a class action lawsuit in NJ around this issue a number of years ago.
I gave up on buying an '08 due to the frame design problems. Maybe they'll fix it for '09 with the Diesel (more torque = more twisting). Was thinking about another gen-1 DC, but dang, Toyota's quality over the last 15 years is really making me think domestic....
