• Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Except that only started on luxury brands. And the Japanese brands have struggled with it the most.

    Hondas were still well known for rusting out too quickly into the early 2000s. They even had recalls on 2007-2011 CR-V.

    Toyota in 2016 settled a class action suit for multiple models from 2004-2008. And that was on top of a different recall for rusting that spanned 1995-2003 models.

    Nissans still tend to have the transmission blow up before the car can rust out. But did have their own rust issues.

    Basically, Japan doesn’t use road salt. And their engineers had much less experience dealing with it. But the issue has persisted way longer than it should have taken them to solve for.