I am pretty much perplexed and seemingly backed into a corner with the situation with our beautiful 2001 Tundra TRD. It only has 88,000 miles on it and is beautiful up top but is really rusty on the bottom. A couple months back it began making wierd scraping noises in the front drivers wheel when the brakes were applied. I figured it was the backing plate rusting away and getting jammed up against the rotor. The parking brake has never really worked so I figured that big brake work was in order so we grounded the truck.
My son, who has the same truck with over 300,000 miles on it said he would take a look at it and try to fix it himself, having learned how on his own truck. Well, he came over and we learned that the wheel is rusted to the rotor-thingy and won't come off. He mentioned that there were 2 recalls back in the day for rust issues but research shows those have long since expired. Guys on the Tundra forums are still posting about issues like mine - some have found agreeable dealers that replaced the entire frame and gave them a loaner truck while they did that, others have been told by dealers to pound sand. Toyota says they will do a free inspection to determine the extent of the damage but then where do you go?
The truck books retail about $8500 but I'm guessing we'd be lucky to get half that in it's current condition. I'm not so cool that I can just walk away from 4 grand without wincing mightily so here I am. We'd like to get the truck fixed and gone. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts about what we can do with this situation?
My son, who has the same truck with over 300,000 miles on it said he would take a look at it and try to fix it himself, having learned how on his own truck. Well, he came over and we learned that the wheel is rusted to the rotor-thingy and won't come off. He mentioned that there were 2 recalls back in the day for rust issues but research shows those have long since expired. Guys on the Tundra forums are still posting about issues like mine - some have found agreeable dealers that replaced the entire frame and gave them a loaner truck while they did that, others have been told by dealers to pound sand. Toyota says they will do a free inspection to determine the extent of the damage but then where do you go?
The truck books retail about $8500 but I'm guessing we'd be lucky to get half that in it's current condition. I'm not so cool that I can just walk away from 4 grand without wincing mightily so here I am. We'd like to get the truck fixed and gone. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts about what we can do with this situation?
