New concerned and curious taco owner

Hey everyone so I got a couple questions , I just bought my 2015 Tacoma 2 weeks ago and I noticed my frame has rust allalong it how should I go about getting it fixed through my dealer if I even can and what’s some good starter mods I’m getting265/75/r16 tires put on tomorrow and Icurrently have 265/70/r16s on 16 inchrims should I lift it with being in costal Georgia and doing mostly camping orcould I get my gear first and lift later on?

 

First is take it to reputable dealer and get it documented that your frame has issues and needs to be sprayed. And just wait and see what they say.

 

Pictures please!!

 

I’ll send pictures in a sec

 

The amount of rust looks normal if this were a New England truck. Just spray everything down with cosmoline to prevent the rust from getting worse.

 

Yeah my father in laws buddy owns a tint/wrap shop so he has sprayers a vehichle lift that we can use if Toyota doesn’t do anything for me

 

You don't want the Toyota rubberized coating. That will rot the frame from within.

 

Damn and he said what we would do is basically go in with a steel wheel and get all the surface rust off and go back over it with a few coats of fresh heavy duty weather proof paint aka prob rust oleum from Walmart or lowes he said that’s how he had to do his jeep and it is what would work best instead of rubber of any kind . Thoughts on it ?

 

Or should we do the cosmoline and then repaint the undercarriage if they don’t

 

Looks like surface rust... Brush it with wire brush, then encapsulate the spots, then paint..

 

Don’t give him misinformation. That procedure doesn’t apply to the 2015.

 

Toyota won’t do a thing for you until there is a hole in the frame.

 

Man you north east guys have a low bar set for what rust looks like.

I would of ran away from a truck with that much rust showing VERY fast. If the rust is that bad there I cant imagine what the rest of the underside of the truck and in the boxed section looks likes.

 

Dude, this rust is honestly not bad at all. Welds rust pretty much right away.

 

You’ve never seen a rusty vehicle talking like that… get real

 

Yes that would work. After the paint cures in ~48 hrs, spray the painted areas with cosmoline.

That rust is nothing. For comparison, here are two grade 8 yellow zinc plated bolts from my previous truck after a few winters

 

my 2015 has it and the crc treatment.

 

The front on the picture and other side are the only areas that have large amounts of rust the bed and back are fine really lol. Most the rust is all surface stuff around the welds and such except up front in said areas