Anyone have any new info on this with the Tundras? My friends friend just had his Tundra bought back at a Toyota dealer whom said it was unsafe to drive. My frame is pretty rusty, especially in one place on both sides wheres rock shoot back from the wheels. I was going to put rust seal or POR-15 on it, but I might try my luck at the dealer after hearing that.
Anyone have any new info on this with the Tundras? My friends friend just had his Tundra bought back at a Toyota dealer whom said it was unsafe to drive. My frame is pretty rusty, especially in one place on both sides wheres rock shoot back from the wheels. I was going to put rust seal or POR-15 on it, but I might try my luck at the dealer after hearing that.
7 year old truck with some rust is normal. I'd recommend you clean the undercariage once in a while. If your dealer says something about a recall being valid for a 7 year old truck frame, I'd be pretty amazed.
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My brother-in-law had his 2000 Tundra at Nashua Toyota on Tuesday. He is friends with the service manager there. So here is the scoop. The Japanese have come in to the dealership and are researching the effects of the New England winter on Tundras. This is to find out if the same buyback program needs to take place. The dealership gave him a loaner for the day and paid him a c note to keep his truck for research for the day.
The results? The dealership would not tell him. He said they are keeping it pretty hush hush there. However, He said his steering column is rusted out, a sway bar had snapped and the radiator was rotted out. The breaks also need to be replaced. Dave (my b-i-l) takes great care of his truck. Seriously. His truck just turned 100k.
I have a 2000 myself, and have a ton of rust and rot. I like to think that I have taken good care of my truck, but it sure doesn't look that way underneath. I tow a 24ft camper with it now, and will have to stop, as I am now more concerned than ever about my truck. Looks like she will meet her maker soon. She just turned 135K.
I guess this is going to become a "let's wait and see" game. Toyota of Nashua has hundreds of Tacomas that they have had to buy back. They have had to lease parking lots from other companies, and there are Tacos everywhere.
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Very interesting. I live in Maine - maybe 2 hours north of Nashua, and sold my 2000 Tundra a year ago, and said the same thing. Mine had MUCH flaky rust on the rear frame, shock mounts, etc. The truck was excellent - except for that issue.
I think thre will be a similar buyback on Tundras - wait & see!
Well that is good news that they are looking into this.
Is yours bad enough that it would fail the test they did on the tacomas? It was a blow from 12in away with a ball peen hammer. If they got the hammer through the frame/dented it in...it failed. Mine is pretty rusty/flaky but I definately couldn't get a hammer through it...yet.
I sure hope they have a recall soon. I don't think I'll get much for my 2000 tundra if I sold it now. Too bad it only has 46K miles on it, but check out the rust in these photos. I've lived in Mass since 1973 and I've never seen a car/truck rust like this much in just 8 years. I really want to stick with toyota on my next purchase but there not making it an easy decision. Lets hope for that recall.
Andy even with a Tundra bedliner your still going to have air and water traped into the plastic liner which will cause rust prematurly. It's best to Line X which seal's the Bed and be done with it. I've seen Tundra bed bolt's rust knowen problem in the Tundra and older Tacoma Line up.
If I kept my Tundra i'll line X the whole dam frame if this get bad but i do have the undercoating from (SET)
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I hope that toyota recalls the tundra for a buy back. I've already had to replace the rear bumper and had the bed patched and spray with some type of liner. The truck is a one owner with only 130k. That is BS.
wow! You have to drive into the ocean here in Florida to get your truck to rust
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Well at least the toyota isn't this bad. This was taken back in March 08. My boss gave this guy $200 on trade in which I think was too high. That was duct tape, screen and rust holding this beauty together.
I was just talking with my service manager at the local dealership about this today. There are three frame rusted/rotted out Tacomas in the back lot of the dealership. He says this buyback program for just the Tacomas nationwide is costing Toyota Corp. something like 1.8 BILLION $ dollars! He also said part of the problem was the undercoating/paintjob from the frame supplier in California (late nineties-2000), but more so that the Tacoma frame was fully BOXED the entire length of the truck (unlike the Tundra's which are C-Channel from the engine bay rearward), and that there were no weap holes in the boxed frame for water to escape, resulting in rust/rot from the inside out! He also said Toyota is trying to recover financial damages from the bad frame supplier. Guess it all depends on if the test engineers determine if the rotted/rusted frame on the 1st generation Tundras is also a safety issue as with the early Tacomas, or just normal wear and tear type rust common to most vehicles in the Northeast/Midwest.
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Well at least the toyota isn't this bad. This was taken back in March 08. My boss gave this guy $200 on trade in which I think was too high. That was duct tape, screen and rust holding this beauty together.
Well sure, that's at most a 1993 model....15 year old vehicles certainly rust out the panels. I've seen plenty of '93 Yota trucks with nothing left by now. It's the vehicles 1/2 that age rusting out that's disappointing. But frame rust to the point of failure is still rare in most 15-20 year old vehicles.
I know the feeling. Two consecutive record snow falls in NE Ohio and my poor Tundra frame is looking bad. I sprayed under every week and sometimes two or three times. I found that using rust converter cures all this bs, but it takes a brush and patience, plus you just have to do it over time. I figure after this season I'll be finished. It converts rust into a thick black primer that pretty much doesn't need painted, but I'm not taking any chances.
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