purchase evaluation: too much underbody rust? (1 Viewer)

[Tex68w]

Love the people from Texas and Florida who comment on rust threads.

"That truck might be under-priced by 7-8k, but I'd rather fly to Dubai ($3k) and buy a GX from the desert for $10k more and ship it back ($5k) than pay $200-600 to get the rust surface removed and undercoated on the cheaper, local truck. But that's me and I'm from Florida so my cars have never had any rust"

Gotta love the $hit poster coming into a thread with his very first post on the forum and already talking crap. Thanks for your super helpful contribution to the thread, I bet you'll be an absolute joy going forward and sure to stick around as a valued member.

 

[BigSwede]

That rust isn't pretty, but cover it with Fluid Film and it will stop the rust in it's tracks without all the tedious wire wheel work.

I am hoping to go look at a 2012 with 62k miles later this week, will be curious to see how it compares underneath to yours (it spent most of it's time in NJ). The used car dealer that has it said they sprayed it with 3M undercoating, which may not be a good thing really, we'll see.

 

[Teagan]

Gotta love the $hit poster coming into a thread with his very first post on the forum and already talking crap. Thanks for your super helpful contribution to the thread, I bet you'll be an absolute joy going forward and sure to stick around as a valued member.

I didn't mean to start trouble with my first post. Just my sense of humor.

I just bought a 2012 gx460 with 95k miles 3 weeks ago, my other car is a Chevy Cruze which doesnt have much off-road capability so I'm new to this forum and club lexus. I plan on keeping her for a while and potentially doing some tasteful mods.

Week 1, I took her to Toyota for spark plugs, coolant, trans, p/s, and brake fluid change. It just had an oil change before I bought it, so I will wait a couple thousand more miles and do the oil, diffs and transfer case so I have a baseline on everything. I'll probably do this myself so I know it is being done right with the correct fluids.

Last week I had her in a shop for rust remediation and rust-proofing. There was plenty of surface rust and a couple the chemicals they use take a day to cure so it was in the shop from Tuesday-saturday. It looks good now and the shop guarantees it will remain rust free for 10 years. The use Noxudol chemicals/process.

I got it back Saturday and Sunday I replaced the drivers side seat bottom with an OEM replacement from ebay. The old one was a little worn and dingy looking. The new one looks great and gxbob on YouTube detailed the process beautifully in a video, which was very helpful.

I'm currently outfitting for beach driving as I live 30 mins from the ocean and will be doing that regularly this summer. Im getting a set of Pirelli Scorpion AT Plus put on Thursday morning. Tinting the front windows, and researching roof rack or tow hitch rack next.

I don't mean to offend anyone, or maybe I did lol. Don't let rust keep you from a good deal on your dream car.

 

[Tex68w]

Thanks for the clarification, my apologies for bitting off your head lol.

 

[r2m]

I didn't mean to start trouble with my first post. Just my sense of humor.

I just bought a 2012 gx460 with 95k miles 3 weeks ago, my other car is a Chevy Cruze which doesnt have much off-road capability so I'm new to this forum and club lexus. I plan on keeping her for a while and potentially doing some tasteful mods.

Week 1, I took her to Toyota for spark plugs, coolant, trans, p/s, and brake fluid change. It just had an oil change before I bought it, so I will wait a couple thousand more miles and do the oil, diffs and transfer case so I have a baseline on everything. I'll probably do this myself so I know it is being done right with the correct fluids.

Last week I had her in a shop for rust remediation and rust-proofing. There was plenty of surface rust and a couple the chemicals they use take a day to cure so it was in the shop from Tuesday-saturday. It looks good now and the shop guarantees it will remain rust free for 10 years. The use Noxudol chemicals/process.

I got it back Saturday and Sunday I replaced the drivers side seat bottom with an OEM replacement from ebay. The old one was a little worn and dingy looking. The new one looks great and gxbob on YouTube detailed the process beautifully in a video, which was very helpful.

I'm currently outfitting for beach driving as I live 30 mins from the ocean and will be doing that regularly this summer. Im getting a set of Pirelli Scorpion AT Plus put on Thursday morning. Tinting the front windows, and researching roof rack or tow hitch rack next.

I don't mean to offend anyone, or maybe I did lol. Don't let rust keep you from a good deal on your dream car.

Teagan,
Yep, I like to think we're a pretty good crowd here on the GX forum with many of us having years, if not decades of experience in overlanding, off-roading, and moding Lexus/Toyotas. (sorry, not street racers) Personally I've been doing it since about 1994 starting with a huge Ford F350 crewcab 4x4 and building it out as an overlander, then to a 1998 100 series Landcruiser build and now my beloved 2013 GX. If you have not figured it out yet, the GX platform is beginning to be very popular build platform with tons of awesome options.
The only thing stopping you is your imagination and bank account .
Enjoy!