Originally Posted By: cchase
The simple reality is that rust has consumed nearly every single T100 in the Northeast, while lots of domestic trucks soldier on, visible on the roads every day.
I'm not making a statement about any other aspect of the vehicles other than the rust.
15 years ago T100's were still everywhere, they're GONE today. They rust out in salt areas, washing the undercarriage or not.
Bingo, no offense but WV doesn't have a winter.
Power wash an undercarriage when its 0 degrees outside? Good luck doing that.
My Toyota dealer has lots of the newer trucks in parts as they are waiting for chassis to show up. All the older ones turned to dust.
The fact of the matter is until very recently Toyota did [censored] poor rustproofing on their trucks. The domestic manufactures figured it out pretty good in the late 80's early 90's. A lot of them still running around with rockers gone but the frames pretty good still.
The flip side is that any Toyota truck that someone brought up from a salt free state that's still nice is priced as if its made of solid gold. Last one I saw for sale was a 1996 with a regular cab and 8ft bed, and it was priced with 150k on it at $8k....I can buy a 2007 Chevy with under 50k miles on it for that kind of money. They almost always seem to be priced within a few bucks of a decade younger domestic.
The simple reality is that rust has consumed nearly every single T100 in the Northeast, while lots of domestic trucks soldier on, visible on the roads every day.
I'm not making a statement about any other aspect of the vehicles other than the rust.
15 years ago T100's were still everywhere, they're GONE today. They rust out in salt areas, washing the undercarriage or not.
Bingo, no offense but WV doesn't have a winter.
Power wash an undercarriage when its 0 degrees outside? Good luck doing that.
My Toyota dealer has lots of the newer trucks in parts as they are waiting for chassis to show up. All the older ones turned to dust.
The fact of the matter is until very recently Toyota did [censored] poor rustproofing on their trucks. The domestic manufactures figured it out pretty good in the late 80's early 90's. A lot of them still running around with rockers gone but the frames pretty good still.
The flip side is that any Toyota truck that someone brought up from a salt free state that's still nice is priced as if its made of solid gold. Last one I saw for sale was a 1996 with a regular cab and 8ft bed, and it was priced with 150k on it at $8k....I can buy a 2007 Chevy with under 50k miles on it for that kind of money. They almost always seem to be priced within a few bucks of a decade younger domestic.
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