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Originally Posted by mainhunter
I wish they would take a look at other models, I have a 2000 tundra and there is more rust on the frame than should be. I rinse it all the time in the winter and it is still getting bad. I called toyota today and they said....its just the tacos......
por-15 or rust bullet?
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I had a 2000 Tundra 4wd as well and it had
some light splotches of surface rust here and there where paint had chipped as well and it had always been in the south and never in salt/snow. We had a couple of snows the winter I had it, but I never drove it in the salt. I am not sure if other Tundra owners have seen this or not, but hopefully they dont get like some of the Tacomas had got. Around here, even those were surface rust at the worst.
Unfortunately, Tacomas are almost non-existant around here. I have kinda been in the market for a 1995-98 Tacoma SR5 4wd extended cab with automatic and they are either almost impossible to find or priced out of this universe. Our local Toyota dealership had alot of these on their lot that had came from up north, with mostly only some surface rust on the frame and they would not sell them. They had about 50 of these on the back lot. One was a white 97' SR5 4wd, loaded, automatic with LIGHT surface rust on the frame and they would not sell it to me. He said it was going to be crushed like pancake.
Oh well. I guess I will try to find a 89-95 4wd automatic truck, but these are way overpriced too as are the T100s (if you can find one).
There is a old man down the road with a 1999 Tacoma SR5 4wd ext cab that I have known for years that I may think of asking to sell to me when he decides to sell it. His neighbor had a 1995 Tacoma 4wd, but now has has a Silverado.. maybe he traded it in.