This happened this am.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by wayner

Those tacomas had a rusty frame recall

Several. I've had my '06 stripped and recoated 3 times! A neighbor had his break in half!! Toyota actually rebuilt it.

Pete if I were you I'd contact Toyota for yours. No way an '03 should be that bad.

[wdfifteen]

These reports from the real word of the auto world industry are great. Someone should start a blog
the auto repair industry.
The irony is any one with time to write a blog is probably too busy to write about the auto repair industry.

[vonsmog]

Yep, nothing worse for a car than a western NY winter! here is a Mercedes 300D rear trailing arm that scummed to the rust bug.

[slow&rusty]

I left the rust belt in Southern Ontario 20 years ago and moved to CO and now TX due to the terrible salt and how it destroyed my cars, I even took a pay cut but didn't care. Nothing so low like having your fun car that you spend thousands of hours and dollars rust and you spend the first few months of every year grinding, treating and painting - no thanks!

[petrolhead611]

Cars don't usually reach the stage of catastrophic rust here despite these of copious salt on our winter roads. Annual compulsory safety inspections pick up the onset of dangerous rust

[WPOZZZ]

I live in a salt air environment and all I can say is, Holy crap!

[wayner]

Originally Posted by petrolhead611

Cars don't usually reach the stage of catastrophic rust here despite these of copious salt on our winter roads. Annual compulsory safety inspections pick up the onset of dangerous rust

thing i here, along with the salt you get lots of big slushy snow build up then then freezes solid keeping the sort close, and then melt/freeze cycles activate it all season.

car parked in heated garages age much more quickly for that reason