Looking to buy this...should I run?

[stonepa]

I never buy rust.

Hah hah. Westerners.

Rust on the body would be an issue but who cares about underneath? That's what I pay my Toyota dealer to deal with.

That rust is nothing. You should see the bottom of my truck. Of course, it's spent its entire life in Alaska, Minnesota, and Ohio. It's gone almost 300k miles so far, hopefully 200k more to go.

That being said, if I had the choice to find buy one without chassis rust I would take it. But I wouldn't spend my too short life boiling the ocean to find one.

 

[Rigger]

Ummm, what do you mean by "boiling the ocean" ?

That's a new one on me!

 

[El Cid]

You could probably get around that, but since this is a luxury purchase(assumption) a little bit of extra effort can get you no/minimal rust.

My advice is to walk the elephant and pitch to the rhino. Meaning pass and go find a mommy vehicle somewhere.

And when you do find that LC, buy a product called No Rust, and lay it on ..
http://slideproducts.com/cgi-bin/product.cgi?skucat=402

 

[stonepa]

Funny thing too is that you can go look at a brand new Ford or Chevy truck sitting in a dealer lot and after the 1st rain it doesn't look much different than that except no bubbling paint.

The bubbling paint comes a year after you buy it. Dodges are even worse. Most of my neighbors have these trucks and at 3 years old the rear wheel wells are shot and the bumpers are rusting out. I just laugh when they talk about rusty Japanese trucks.

 

[stonepa]

Ummm, what do you mean by "boiling the ocean" ?

That's a new one on me!

Definition of 'Boil The Ocean'

To undertake an impossible task or project or to make a task or project unnecessarily difficult. Boiling the ocean generally means to go overboard.

 

[thetoyotaman]

The bubbling paint comes a year after you buy it. Dodges are even worse. Most of my neighbors have these trucks and at 3 years old the rear wheel wells are shot and the bumpers are rusting out. I just laugh when they talk about rusty Japanese trucks.

Too funny

 

[e9999]

sure, no rust is better than rust.

But then again, there is rust and there is rust. If you take some raw steel, degrease it and put it outside in the rain it will "rust" in a couple of days. Would you throw it away? It'd take 2 minutes with a wire wheel or phosphoric acid to make it look new again and it would structurally be just fine.
Light surface rust may look bad and be trivial to clean up.
Not saying that the truck above is fine, just saying it's silly to "run away" from one without some more serious evaluation. Always comes down to price vs work. And I can see some instances where light surface rust may get you a terrific deal.

 

[LX101North]

Dude. Run Fast! That Rig has the Cancer. Come to think of it, did you check this rig out at a used car lot in Bend? If so, is it Black? Man, i drove 8 hours up to Bend to test drive a couple hundies, but one was an uncared for polished turd and the other one, the Black one looked great, drove great, smelled like cigarettes, and when we looked underneath, it had the cancer. It was creeping up the quarter panels under the paint and everything.

Drive it to a body shop and ask the people there if they would buy that rig. They will tell you.

 

[Backcountry pinstrip]

Brother Oregonian
There are plenty of rust free vehicles right here in Or and Wa. you just have to look and stay away from the carlots.I found a rust free LC last month that had 135.000 on it bought in Eugene serviced by the dealer(take that with a grain of salt) scratched by bushes on the exterior,interior excellent and all the extras on an 06 for under 20 k.The miles were all highway dragging the kids 20 miles each way to school twice a day,adds up quick.These cars are the best to buy if they have no rust and hwy miles mean little when the ave lifespan is between 300 to 500 k.Good luck I could keep an eye out for you in the Valley.