Toyota Tacoma Frame Repair

Tacoma s generally rust through in the same areas.

Toyota tacoma frame repair.

Our kit is designed to repair the frame where the spring mount is located in front of the rear tire. Crib 155 body frame component sectioning which states frame sectioning is considered partial replacement of a frame rail or component which is not an approved repair procedure on toyota and lexus full. Toyota tacoma pickup truck that had a rusted through frame at 90 000 miles due to a manufacturing defect. It s made of heavy gauge steel and is 30 inches in length.

1999 toyota tacoma 3 4l v6 sr5 4x4. Safetcap kits are a cost effective frame saving repair kit for your car or truck. I ll be posting more videos soon. Safetcap kits are designed to be functional repair sections for your vehicles frame engineered through best practices in our auto rust tech facility.

The good news we have access to repair kits that allow us to save the vehicle from going to the salvage yard. Toyota sent a deliberately misleading notice to give the impression they were going to own their mistake and offer some relief to the customers who had prematurely junk. Hello everyone and welcome to my channel. The spring mount will need to be cut away from the frame then re attached after the new frame section has been installed.

It s in his build thread in the profile. Over 40 years of r d have gone into our safetcap kits. It will give you an idea of what your up against. When we inspect the damage it is usually located from the center of the frame rails to the rear leaf spring front mounting bracket area.

As many as 225 000 steel frames under toyota tacoma and tundra pickups and sequoia suvs may need to be replaced says a lawyer who helped settle a class action lawsuit against toyota over the. Fits 1996 2004 the xtracab 2wd and 4wd models. Unfortunately our tacoma was never taken in for the frame replacement recall offered by toyota and by the time ownership passed to us the truck was too old and had too many miles on it.