ANOTHER ''IS THIS TOO MUCH RUST'' THREAD

After combing through pages and pages of rust threads on here, figured I'd just post up some photos. Please feel free to bash me for adding to the pile of rust threads here.

I just sold my land cruiser and looking for a Tacoma. I'm from California so we dont get much rust out here. The truck I'm looking at is in Denver (I'm reading they dont salt out there). Truck is priced really well or else I wouldnt be considering bringing it back here to California.

Thoughts on these photos?

 

I'd buy it. I'd also probably clean it up a little, but I don't see any perforation or major rot to justify running away.

 

for a northern michigan view point...that looks AMAZING!! Surface rust, clean it up, fluid film or woolwax and drive it forever! oh, its silver....hold out for a black one...

 

Here in the rust belt, that's a two-year-old truck.

 

looks great, would buy, if you do fluid film it right away to preserve that frame.

 

Unless i missed something, what age and how much?

I live in western New York, have an 09', and while i am not obsessive about washing in the winter, i do clean the frame, and convert the rust every fall, prior to re-Krown applications.

That is a shit load of rusting, whether surface, or not, and raises questions about areas not visible, which is what age and how much matters. My frame is almost completely rust free, and with almost 100% original paints on the frame.

 

Crawl under and take a look the frame under the drivers door.
If it’s a V6 Tacoma, you want to look at the INSIDE frame next to the catalytic converter on the DRIVERS side. That’s where it gets bad first.

 

Looks good but if y ou can verify if the inside frame is just surface rust ... then get it and treat it...

 

What we can derive from the pics isn't bad, how about inside the C channel?

 

That looks like all surface rust and should clean up nicely similar to this:

...BUT in my experience that's not the place that gets the worst rust. Check the front and rear of the frame. Front tends to catch road spray from vehicles you're following and rear catches your own road spray. I'd request photos of the radiator mounts, trailer hitch mount area, spare tire area, etc.

This too:

 

Looks fine from the pics, but I'd definitely get right under and take a thorough look around all the tight corners and mounting points.

 

No reason to bash you as unlike most of the other newbie rust threads you're actually doing your due diligence BEFORE purchasing the truck...instead of buying it, discovering it's a rust bucket afterwards, and then coming on here crying that it's the fault of Toyota, the dealership, and everyone else but them...blah blah blah.

Instead, I'll tip my hat to you and say welcome to TW.

 

I concur, mostly surface and easy clean up. Just do that and good to go.

 

You did not mention year or mileage. If it is priced right go for it. That is not bad compared to what we find up here in the Frozen Tundra.

 

Looks okay to me. Check the passenger rail on the outside and bottom..that's where mine went through.

CO wasn't listed as a state for the program so I'm thinking it should be okay as you mentioned.