Toyota Truck Owners Clamoring For Recall Over Dangerously Rusted Frames [Industry News]

Apparently the historical anecdotal rust problem with Toyota trucks is rearing its horrible head again, as owners of early decade Tundras and Tacomas are lodging complaints by NHTSA over rusted and dangerously deteriorating frames.

After the bodies on Toyota pickups of the 70s and 80s turned into little piles of brown dust, you’d think Toyota would have figured out how to model a pickup susceptible of standing up to the elements. It seems you may have thought tort. Owners of Tacomas and Tundras from between 1995 and 2002 have lodged complaints with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration from one side to the other dangerously corroding frames, with some examples so weak you can poke a play on through crossmembers. Stories of large sheets of corroded metal falling off the truck, shackles and spring mounts rusting through, frames in the way that bad you can’t weld replacement crotchets on make it sound pretty bad. These allegations are highly serious, and may lead to NHTSA investigating whether a recall might be in order. [The Boston Channel]