Is my frame gone?

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I believe this is a Yelp list. Good Luck

 

Thank you

 

Advice from somebody who lives in the heart of the rust belt. There's nothing you can really do to stop it. Can you slow it down a bit? Maybe - by totally dousing it with Fluid Film of something similar. The problem is that the worst rust is in the hardest to see and get to places. Sadly, she's all done.

 

.....it is thousands of pounds of moving steel, aluminum, plastic, tubber.....and at times, i'd imagine at speeds in excess of 60 miles an hour, and with human lives being a consideration, and including those of others......and based on where the visible holes are, and the paper thin steel extending away from that more center hole.....that looks like more that half of that section of the frame and its structural integrity, is compromised in that area, and perhaps others....

...not trying to be dramatic, just thinking out loud with my first thought when I saw your post.

 

Who stuck a picture of the Titanic into the thread?

I almost actually cringed and recoiled.

 

You’re welcome. Also, you might want to LIGHTLY tap around your frame with a ball peen hammer to see the extent of the rust. Good luck!

 

I was rear-ended a few days ago. The damage wasn't bad but do you think that contributed to the frame rust becoming a hole? If so, I might go through insurance.

 

No, but you could try to play that card.

 

It might have "contributed" by shaking an area of scale off the frame - exposing a hole. Your insurance company will call that a "pre-existing condition."

 

My 2010 got a whole new frame in 2021 because of a whole near the cat...

 

My 2005 got a new frame in 2015 because of it.

 

It's seriously like hitting the lottery; I would rather keep putting money into this truck than have payments at today's interest rates!

 

I got quoted between $4000 -$7500. Carmax offered me $7800 with the rust. What do you think is a good price to have it fixed?

 

Dump it and run as fast as you can!.. then ask for forgiveness !

 

Did you go through the class action settlement or did you pay for it yourself? How much was the frame?

 

The Toyota dealer inspected my truck and determined the frame qualified for replacement; Toyota paid for everything, so I was I was part of the class action settlement.

 

What year is yours? When was this?

 

OP, your window closed in ~2021 (2009 + 12 years). Unfortunately you can forget about Toyota doing anything for you. That frame could last a while, or snap tomorrow in a bad enough pot hole. Once you clean up the rust down to good metal the patch size will probably be larger then you think. And it's probably not the only spot, just the one you found. I would take the $7800.

 

hard to say not knowing whether you're in LA or La. or wherever you are.

 

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