Frame Rot on Prior Generation

[Je1279]

I know this is a Gen13, but it still seems concerning.

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[oncechance]

This is reason that I had Krown rustproofing done to my truck and get yearly re-applications.

 

[Larrymoe]

This is reason that I had Krown rustproofing done to my truck and get yearly re-applications.

Unless they found a way to coat the interior of your frame, that isn't going to matter. They're rotting from the inside out.

 

[oncechance]

Unless they found a way to coat the interior of your frame, that isn't going to matter. They're rotting from the inside out.

They spray inside the frame via existing holes that are there.

 

[{tpc}]

Well good to know what to keep a lookout for!

 

[Larrymoe]

They spray inside the frame via existing holes that are there.

And they remove all the sand and stuff that's built up in there?

 

[Buyer2021]

Thankfully my one-owner Gen 11 XLT is 'sound' with no 'frame rot'.

Never treated with anything but it's a central Texas truck, no winter or coastal-zone salt exposure. ?

 

[ttnuagmada]

Mine seems likely to fall apart before I have to start worrying about something like that.

 

[Truckguy24]

I do get a chuckle out of these videos because I have said this to people before and they've tried to say that I'm wrong.

I'm originally from the Northeast and still have my '04 F-150 that was driven in the winters and salt from 2004 until I retired it in 2015. I had started under coating it with fluid film in 2012 or so when I learned about it and to this day even living in North Carolina it's pretty clean under there. I will have some small rust repair on body panels down the road, but nothing for a very long time.

As others have said and as I have tried to tell people in the past, any boxed frame is going to meet this demise. This is especially true because the vast majority of owners of any car, don't properly take care of it since they go through them like underwear every two to five years. Essentially what started on the 11th gen boxed frames has since trickled to the 12th gen, and is now starting to pop up on the 13th. In later years the 14th gens with fall victim.

Here in the Charlotte Piedmont region of North Carolina, they are dumping so much salt on the roads during the winters if we get snow or ice, that I think there's going to be a lot more Southern rusted vehicles than ever before. That technology and brinr has caused a lot of Southern areas to adapt the northern mentality of no delay and no cancellations anymore. This picture is from my area of Cabarrus County NC back in January or February of this year. Imagine how many vehicles went unwashed after this. The roads were freaking white.

Mother nature, Father time, and the harsh salt and brine are undefeated.

 

[MTMan]

And Toyota recalled and replaced how many frames for this…

 

[powerboatr]

Thankfully my one-owner Gen 11 XLT is 'sound' with no 'frame rot'.

Never treated with anything but it's a central Texas truck, no winter or coastal-zone salt exposure. ?

Yup we just get pine straw and red mud
I rinse via the holes at each wash
As habit

 

[JExpedition07]

Open-C is an inherently superior design for flex and corrosion, but GM ran a smear campaign against Ford in the 2000s for the C-channel and put it up on staggered ramps to show flex. The average stupid American consumer and magazines ate this up and ran with it, and demanded a sub-par frame that will rot out in the name of torsional rigidity. There is a reason semis, tractors, and dump trucks use an Open-C….it doesn’t crack under immense pressure. It flexes and doesn’t rot. The frame wall was also a crap ton thicker, so any corrosion could be removed without going through the tin foil thickness wall. Even the current “HDPP” frame is about half the thickness of the old open-c wall.

 

[Je1279]

I may invest in one of these for piece of mind, if nothing else.

https://www.saltshift.com/en-us/pro...uvTOmTcyajfmMp3a3oNTeJt2PkPKMATaOcVnrWiPItjIN

 

[eharri3]

My 09 Tundra's part C channel frame looked fine at 13 years and 113K when I traded it. Only surface stuff but structurally solid. In my area a snow dusting merits panic and mountains of brine everywhere. Gonna take a lot of work to make any vehicle frame last 20 yrs without some work unless you luck out and get a stretch of mind Winters through your ownership of a vehicle. Brother in law dumped his 2010 Silverado on Carvana last year with a rusted through frame that wouldn't pass inspection.

The Tundra held up through several tough Winters. The first few with my '21 have been milder without many serious storms.

 

[Mosey]

The truck in the video had about half a yard of crap inside the frame. No wonder it stayed wet and rotted. I’ll keep applying fluid film to the inside of the frame and move on.

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