Most pickup trucks are designed using a variant of the body-on-frame construction. This building method means the truck’s cab and bed are installed on top of a purpose-built frame, giving it the ...

Steel is almost the perfect material to build a car with. Inexpensive, strong without being brittle, and a modulus of elasticity that allows it to take a beating without permanently changing shape, ...

Frame rust is bad, that’s no secret. Anyone who’s shopped for an XJ Jeep Cherokee, second-gen Toyota 4Runner, or pretty much any Ford F-150 knows to look for signs offrame rust, as it can quickly ...

Generally all trucks from GM and Ford will go 12 years with no major rust issues. They all can and will exhibit some surface rust issues but no rust through. The GM frames can get some surface coat ...

Of the many attributes of steel, the major component used in construction of the body and structural members of all but some of the most recent Mopars, one downside of this product is certain: Steel ...

Back in March, Toyota expanded its frame-related recall campaign for the 2000-2003 Tundra as affected trucks arrived in droves across the nation with significant amounts of frame oxidation. With ...

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> has agreed to a settlement of up to $3.4 billion for a federal class action brought by U.S. owners of pickup trucks and SUVs whose frames could rust through, ...