200 Series Landcruiser - Rust problem

Can you tell if its under the paint or set on top as grinding dust would?? Can it be cut and buffed out? Michael

Shackrob

If you purchased the car brand new just 6 months ago, and you know the issue is genuinely not your fault, I'd be writing to Mr Toyota and CC-ing a copy a TV station. That's totally unacceptable rubbish in my opinion. Press the issue and put it all in writing and ask for replies in writing. You'll end up with satisfaction.

If you knew the car has not been subjected to "grinding dust" or other outside possibilities, It begs the question of why would you even consider wearing the cost yourself??

If it was me and I knew it was a genuine problem with the car I would have obtained an expert report and taken it back to Toyota and said "Your problem".

Toyota offer a five year Corrosion Perforation Warranty and a 3 year 100,000 KM Paint Defect and Surface Rust Warranty.
In my experience as a Toyota owner they have always been very good with any genuine warranty claim.

Me thinks your panel beater has taken the opportunity to pull your pants down and make some money out of you by speaking crap.

WHERE ARE YOU....Are you in wa.......if you are, go and get some advice from the engenering department at the Curtain Uni, they are very good at things like that.

Cheers for now...William H...Bunbury...WA.

Go and see your local motoring organisation especially if you are a member.

you need to determine if its on or under (in) the paint.

if its on they will most probably avoid warranty. if its under the paint or embedded in (not burnt into) the paint then its most likely their problem.

ring a major (or a couple of ) automotive paint supplier(s) to see if they will give an opinion

Hi Shackrob

I would first pick a little spot of the rust on the roof or somewhere less visible and scrape thru the spot until I got to the bare metal and note wether the size of the rust spot increases or decreases as you progress down.

Rust comes from oxidation of metal and it can be from metal dust on the surface - which will decrease in size as you go down or the body which wil increase in size as you go down.

Some thirty years ago when I put my first ever aerial thru the car roof I did not clean fine metal particles off from drilling the hole (with a blunt drill) , and a couple of days later significant and hard to remove spots appeared just from condensation.

I worked for a time at a Ford dealership detailing cars ready to go out to new owners... on more than one occasion the paint was rough like sand paper and had tiny rust specs all over the place and the reasoning at that time was the cars were delivered by train and it was iron filings etc from the rail brakes etc ????

As expected the instruction was to buff the paint and hope the owners didn't complain about it in the future.

Unless you have been on a job site and someone has been using a grinder near your car you could reasonably argue that it was from factory or dealer delivery and either way not your problem and accept nothing less than a complete solution.. cut and polish may wipe away the surface rust staining but the metal will probably still be imbedded in the paint work.

Did the vehicle have any aftermarket work done on it?? Maybe bull bar fitted.. Maybe its from their shop,,, Michael

I had a few rust spots on the drivers side bonnet and roof also but quickly realised that they were from filings left during my snorkel fitment. Took it back to the workshop to show them...(they were embarrassed) but polished out the spots myself quite easily.

I hope it isn't anything more sinister....???

Shackrob,

I had a similar thing on my patrol.

I noticed very small brown spots on the whole car that could be felt with the fingernail. These were only noticeable on close inspection. I wash my car regularly and I know they had only turned up all of a sudden.
I retraced my steps and found that when parked on site (Builder) my car was the recipient of brick acid and sand blown 50m on a windy day from a building site up the road. It was the blow off when they brick clean walls.
I was not a happy man.

Have you parked near building sites at all?

Marco