Buyer beware! Rust belt rip off! Chevy Colorado with rusted frame!!

Unfortunately for my customer, he brought The Chevy Colorado to me for a check over after he purchased it used. Take a look at what salt and brine solution on the road does to this Chevy pick ups frame!

[oliverrojas]

To rule out rust damage, due diligence includes crawling under a vehicle to inspect for it . Thanks for passing it on.

[chuckschneider]

The bottoms of these frames rust out but the side are relatively still intact. You can weld on a new bottom on the frame which is relatively easy. I did mine in a couple hours.

[pault]

I literally just had this done to me. My 17 year old son saved up $4, 500 bucks and we went to look at a 2006 Chevy Colorado and I told the gentleman that it’s for my son and he still sold him the truck with this exact same problem now my son is out of the money and truck. People are just piece of 💩when they do this. Unbelievable

[ivobiancucci]

Body is in good shape he should look at the wreckers for a good frame and bolt it onto the body - I have always under sprayed my cars/trucks with Fluid film

[CarbonGlassMan]

I just bought an 05 Colorado as a wreck. The frame where the front of the leaf spring connects to the frame was rotted out pretty good. I actually welded new steel on the frame and patched where the holes were. Box frames rot out big time because the salt and gunk can't get out of the inside of the frame.

[slingshot]

Just happened to me. The driver side is rock solid which is what I looked at in my parking lot inspection, but when I really got under there a week later, the passenger side looks like it was parked in a lake. This thing had 2 inspections before going to the dealer I bought it from. One from Indiana and the second from Illinois. It's a total scam. They may tell you to get new wipers or lightbulbs but they don't inspect shit underneath. They collect their money and your stuck with crap.

[robcrossan]

Northeast here too...its hard to keep cars on the road solely because of rust. Its detering when you're looking at new vehicles for 30-50 grand and you know by the time its paid for it will probably be rusty underneath. Really no point in owning a nice car in the rust belt. Just buy a somewhat decent used vehicle and drive it until it's to rusty to fix, then buy another.

[keystonecountryboy]

Get a welder....u ain't building a space ship...it's just metal, cut it out and fix it...

[williamholmes]

its fixable, its done everyday on far worse frames.. i wouldnt call the truck a loss

[Carson_Van_McUber]

I bought an 04 Colorado and never checked the frame. I owned a 89 and 91 S10 and never had any frame issues even in 2005 there was zero problems. The frame cracked on the 04 Colorado and that was it for that truck.
So then I got an 08 Colorado figuring I would have time to notice anything wrong and get it fixed if issues arise. I checked over the frame had one soft spot that I got a plate welded over. Before winter I checked over the frame and there was no real signs of any issues anywhere else. I kept taking it to the wash after every snow when they salted the roads so the salt wouldn't hang out too long corroding the frame. I had to get a shock replaced so when checking over the frame again I noticed that the weld in the seam under the rear driver side door came out a little. So I got another plate and within the week after I got the shock fixed, before I could even get another plate welded on the frame had cracked right near that spot.
My parents own a 02 Trailblazer and a 05 silverado and nothing like this had occurred with those vehicles. It's something to do with the first gen colorado frames because looking around I see a lot of colorados of that generation with the bed pressed against the cab due to the frame breaking on them as well.
I am done with used trucks and for getting hosed over by something Chevy did wrong on those Colorado frames I am buying a Ford Maverick.

[keystonecountryboy]

I just did mine w a stick welder and 3/16 plates

[AdamB]

I've lived in New England all my life. That is what I call "scabby but solid." joking aside, that's awfully tragic. Sometimes it takes as little as 10 years before a vehicle becomes so rotten it can't pass inspection. Oil undercoating saves vehicles!

[Ballen]

It is so hard to imagine the rust is that bad. I have a 2007 F-150 whose frame is like new because it has never seen salt on a road in Texas. Maybe folks should come south to purchase used trucks, the issues will simply be wear, not corrosion.

[geraldscott]

Wow that's BAD. I live in Phoenix, AZ, and have a 1993 S-10. The whole bottom of the truck looks brand new. Not a speck of rust anywhere. It was never undercoated. It still has some of the wax on the frame that the factory applied at the factory.

[dalemihocik]

I have the same model truck and needed to have a 3 foot section of frame welded in to get me past winter . At some point I will end up having to part it out or sell to a person that can swap in a solid frame . It sucks when cities feel they need to salt roads from October to May .

[donsigler]

They laughed and ridiculed me on the Colo\Can Forum for getting the Wool Wax application, This is the worst forum Ive ever been on nothing but boasting and jive bullshitters about thier "Supertrucks", I live on a limestone road a literal acid bath, Just the dust will eat chrome off metal. Then toss in some salt and mix well. don't regret Wool Wax after seeing this, My under coater who did my truck said the Colorado and Canyon are the thinnest frames he's ever seen

[dracodrake]

First thing I do when buying a vehicle is look at its bones. If the bones are not good not worth it unless I need something like the power train

[mjb]

GM started undercoating their trucks with some kind of stuff I heard was a wax substance. I think it made the rust worse. I bought a 2007 Silverado a year ago. I was in a hurry and didn't look under it like I should have. It has frame rot that's getting bad on the drivers side. Boy was I surprised when I went to bolt on a set of step bars.

[GameUnited]

I had some frame rust on an Infiniti, nothing major but I used a chemical that stops the rust, it is not a coating tho, after 3 days of applying the chemical the frame became a grayish color, I kept the Infiniti for 3 years and the rust stopped, is that a good strategy if I want to buy a Colorado with some rust??

[davidsiepel]

Dont buy ANY used cars above the frost line. I always get him from AZ, NM, GA, MS, AL or TX. Avoid FL too because of flooding.