"HoustonRunner" (houstonrunner)
09/12/2020 at 13:38 • Filed to: None
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"HoustonRunner" (houstonrunner)
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Spoiler alert - I sold my Suburban so I can buy one just like it with 4WD. So, not a lot to choose from in Houston, but my extended family is all in Nebraska. What should I expect for rust on a 2015 with about 100k miles?
In Houston my tolerance is pretty low, mine didn’t have any that I know of. I expect there would be some?
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Nom De Plume
> HoustonRunner
09/12/2020 at 14:07 |
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I’d prefer a TX or even NM one many times over one from NE. Body rust is a minor problem compared to the litany of mechanical intolerance to environmental and manmade conditions a 4x4 will have faced there by the time it hits 100K.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> HoustonRunner
09/12/2020 at 14:09 |
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Depends on where in Nebraska, the western part is drier than Huston, the eastern part is basically like Minnesota or Ohio, so I’d expect frame fail surface rusting but sheet metal should be fine.
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HoustonRunner
> Nom De Plume
09/12/2020 at 14:12 |
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Fair point...but that one is red! When I buy used cars I’m fairly apathetic on color, but a red suburban does something for me....
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HoustonRunner
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
09/12/2020 at 14:14 |
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I agree, this one is fully loaded and in Lincoln, so I assume it was well cared for. But like Nom said, I’m going to lean towards something from TX or NM.
Shoop
> HoustonRunner
09/12/2020 at 14:21 |
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Uh, as long as the frame doesn’t have holes it’s really fine. Even s urface rust on the frame is no big deal. You all are a bunch of wusses.
-C onnecticut boy
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Nom De Plume
> HoustonRunner
09/12/2020 at 14:39 |
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Ferrite Red? :)
There are rust free examples of vehicles in the Midwest. Rare to find something 4 wheel drive that was stored indoors in a separate garage from one containing vehicles driven through salt and slush.
Best of luck, but do be realistic about why rust belt vehicles are automatically worth less once registered there.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> HoustonRunner
09/12/2020 at 14:57 |
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Friend has one, not sure the year, 2014 maybe but it’s the previous style. Bottoms of the doors are starting to go on the inside, along the edge.
Ssfancyfresh
> HoustonRunner
09/12/2020 at 15:37 |
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I live in Michigan and we salt our roads heavily. We just ditched our 2017 and it looked like new above and below.
2 more years and double the miles in a milder climate, I would expect it to be pretty clean.
shop-teacher
> HoustonRunner
09/13/2020 at 08:42 |
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It honestly depends on how it was driven and taken care of. Could be some surface rust on frame and suspension parts, could be a lot worse. I don’t know anything specific about this body style. I’ve yet to see one with visible body rust, but I don’t know anybody who owns one, so I don’t have any data beyond what is plainly visible. GMT-800's like mine, for example, the first thing to go is the rocker panels. The people who never under-body washed them, lost the rockers within 8-10 years, and also the upper wheel arches not long after . Mine is 14 years old, always lived outside, and I just lost the rockers last year. My wheel arches are totally solid too.
My dad just bought a new Tahoe in this style. I hope to inherit it one of these days, so I can long-term test its rust resistance. As a general rule to watch out for, pay attention to the rocker panels, the wheel arches, and the inner bottoms of the doors. Rust tends to work from the bottom up.