Hey scotty, my friend recently bought a 2006 Toyota Corolla with 130k miles on it. He told me he only bought it for $3k and I got suspicious. We live in California, but he bought this car that was before registered in New Jersey. He told me the body panels have rust on them and asked me to come look at it. The body panels do have a small amount of rust, but that wasn't my concern. The whole underside of the car is completely rusted. Not a single thing under the car doesn't have thick rust on it. The chassis is so badly rusted, it has tiny holes in it from the rust rotting though. He took this car to his mechanic to get work done on it and the mechanic told him THIS CAR COULD LAST 7-10 MORE YEARS. He completely ignored what I said that the car is done for and it's dangerous to drive and not worth putting money into it, and instead listened to the mechanic and proceeded to spend nearly 1k to replace the brake rotors, calipers, and pads. Wanted your opinion on this whole situation so I can show it to my friend so he doesn't pour more money into this deathtrap.
Ps. Keep up the videos scotty. I bought a 2019 Honda Civic Lx from the Honda dealership my sister works at after my VW CC's transmission blew because of the info in your videos about Hondas.
For enough money, the mechanic can probably fleece your friend for all his money, and promise to fix everything on the car. Sometimes, no good deed goes unpunished.
The chassis is so badly rusted
It's a unibody car. Do you have photos of the rust damage?
Wanted your opinion
Yeah if it's a rust bucket then he could be in for a headache . No surprises there.
But these days $3k is nothing. If the rust is just cosmetic and he gets a few years out of the car with only brake work, then what the hey.
Pics?
