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>A few years back now Toyota had a big recall Mustie1, absolute YT gem of a human being, did a couple videos showing his efforts to salvage post recall Toyotas

by rasz 4y ago

>A few years back now Toyota had a big recall Mustie1, absolute YT gem of a human being, did a couple videos showing his efforts to salvage post recall Toyotas. Recall was a scam. Instead of replacing bad frame, or stripping, cleaning and repainting Toyota opted to pay third party contractor to just spray some black goo on frame rails so they last 12 more months while the goo hides corrosion (and traps more moisture speeding up the process). RRRUST 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7N8QEAAeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7N8QEAAeM toyota 4runner frame rust repair 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBB8YX1I1QU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBB8YX1I1QU more toyota frame repair 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdLNKOdi4-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdLNKOdi4-A Toyota Tundra frame repair 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBXYnYYccI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBXYnYYccI toyota tundra rusted frame repair update 2 winters later 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-cqoVYQR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-cqoVYQR0 TLDR involved welding plates to replace eaten metal and regularly coating in oil/liquid film protection every year.

bradfa 4y ago
Interesting. It was my understanding that the official Toyota procedure involved lifting the cab and bed off the existing frame and transplanting all of the rest of the truck to a new frame. This seems to outline the requirements: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154787-9999.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154787-9999.pdf The warranty work is listed at about 40 hours of duration for frame replacement, which seems rather short to me. For about a million potentially affected vehicles that's not a cheap recall.
- rasz 4y ago
  Maybe thats what they were supposed to do, but the post recall trucks Mustie1 worked on all looked the same - spray of hard coat over the corrosion/holes the size of a fist.

by rasz 4y ago

bradfa 4y ago

Interesting. It was my understanding that the official Toyota procedure involved lifting the cab and bed off the existing frame and transplanting all of the rest of the truck to a new frame. This seems to outline the requirements: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154787-9999.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154787-9999.pdf The warranty work is listed at about 40 hours of duration for frame replacement, which seems rather short to me. For about a million potentially affected vehicles that's not a cheap recall.

rasz 4y ago
Maybe thats what they were supposed to do, but the post recall trucks Mustie1 worked on all looked the same - spray of hard coat over the corrosion/holes the size of a fist.