Canadian Truck in Ohio... RUST

[Black W900]

That sounds like a great (too good to be true?) quote to me!

Compare that to your anticipated losses in trying to dump the truck - I bet you'd lose more in a private sale than $1800 to fix it and carry on.

Just make sure that the shop doing the work knows what they're doing.
I've seen some nightmarish "repair" jobs before.

I say that because $1800 is pretty cheap to repair all of that.

 

[Ram1958]

So you probably purchased a truck from A Coastal area (along the Atlantic or Pacific) salt water which would be equal to me purchasing one from A Coastal State(salt water) Flooded area and blaming it on being from the United States. Not all of Canada has Rust issue's. Same as Not all Canadians live in presumed igloos. I purchased an older Florida car a few years back. Took hubcaps off after a week to replace rubber. snapped all but two rusted studs. Florida who would have thought RUST??

 

[never-enough]

Florida who would have thought RUST??

Well Florida is practically an island.

 

[tidefan1967]

So you probably purchased a truck from A Coastal area (along the Atlantic or Pacific) salt water which would be equal to me purchasing one from A Coastal State(salt water) Flooded area and blaming it on being from the United States. Not all of Canada has Rust issue's. Same as Not all Canadians live in presumed igloos. I purchased an older Florida car a few years back. Took hubcaps off after a week to replace rubber. snapped all but two rusted studs. Florida who would have thought RUST??

Hell I live 20 miles from the ocean and haven't had any vehicles rust like that unless they were older than the mid 1970's. My old 2001 Silverado (190K miles) only has light surface rust on the frame, differential and front end parts underneath and none on the body anywhere; hell the paint still looks pretty damn good. Maybe that explains.. why there are more Ohioans in S.C. that in Ohio.

 

[TA462]

I'm wondering if it was in an accident and had poor body work done on it to flip it quickly. Dealers buy wrecked cars all the time cheap, buy parts and flip them. I work for a auto parts recycler and we deliver front clips, complete sides of cars and even roofs everyday to body shops. They cut off the damage and weld in the good parts. Usually you can't tell until a few years down the road when the thing starts rusting prematurely. FYI, Southern Ontario doesn't get near as much snow as most of you guys think. Boston and Buffalo both get a ton more than we ever do. We don't use as much salt as you think we do either.

 

[CanadianNick]

FYI, Southern Ontario doesn't get near as much snow as most of you guys think. Boston and Buffalo both get a ton more than we ever do. We don't use as much salt as you think we do either.

I think we get quite a bit. Sure we have some years that’s aren’t too bad but we get enough. And salt? I hope you’re joking. They now have even changed and use some other **** I forget what it’s called but it’s even worse for rusting up vehicles

 

[BWL]

They mix calcium into the water for the roads out here to keep the dust down. That stuff is brutal for paint and the mud with that stuff in it sticks to everything like cement.

 

[tomb]

my 2012 bighorn-Canadian-has zero rust issues-I do krown it every year and keep it clean all year especially in the winter-a good coat of wax regularly is also the key-could be that the original owner didn't keep up with regular maintenance-I just hope that the mechanical side of things were looked after-after all some of the northern US states get worse winters than us in Ontario Canada-best wishes!!