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To: DUMBGRUNT
If you like your ride, take good care of it, or be totally screwed on a new one.

Not possible in New England - they rust to dust in 15 years no matter how diligently you clean off the salt and chloride spray. The only solution (see what I did there) is to buy replacement cars from down south/southwest every few years. The FJs I can do by myself, but one of them is turning into a rust bucket, so not going to waste time with the battery this time. The Tundra (2019) probably needs a replacement soon.

7 posted on 07/10/2026 1:20:04 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Sirius Lee

” they rust to dust in 15 years no matter how diligently you clean off the salt and chloride spray”

Perhaps waxing every year before the first snowfall might add a few years.


10 posted on 07/10/2026 1:27:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Sirius Lee

What year FJ do you have?


13 posted on 07/10/2026 1:36:49 PM PDT by caver ( )
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