I fully agree that this is a manufacturing defect to the max. The defect, is, an engineering failure and like mentioned this can happen to many vehicles that live on salted roads. Salt on roads should be stopped. Not only is it bad for vehicles on the roads but the run off into the fresh water streams and rivers as well. Then the steel rebar in bridges and over passes. They all need to save the salt for the dinner table only. The defect ? Many fold ! Horrible paint that is used, and in critical rust areas wrong or no special treatments used, or just plain wrong materials that are used. Also many times the unit body frames and suspension parts can be boxed assembly's that have holes all around them to let the salt water ingress, so they pretty much rust from the inside out. Sorry Nissan all this rusting is on you.
Cutting corners and building sub par vehicles for a kings ransom price is the name of all the auto makers game. The part I like is the years of lies when they say they dip the bodies in a rust preventative, I have a 1957 salesman book saying similar, and we know how bad some of those years can be as a pile of rust.
Like I say someone can be looking all day at the bottom of some of these vehicles and never see the problem, if the rusting is all inside the box sections, out of sight out of mind.
With proper treatment inside those sections and sealing all holes and seams so there is zero ingress of water etc.and all welded seams painted with primer before welding this stuff could be almost eliminated as a problem. But most people are more worried about a big fancy screen and a ton of electronics rather than a rust free vehicle.
I reread the very first post on this topic.
They are wrong, it is a manufacturing defect. Just as I pointed out.
Those parts were not protected in the hidden areas if done correctly there would be no rust inside. And if done correctly on the outside the only thing that would have caused rust would be manually removing the paint and or protective coating.
So the metal was not protected during the manufacturing process. If the latex paint they use was applied directly to steel that could aid in starting a rusting issue.
Cutting corners and building sub par vehicles for a kings ransom price is the name of all the auto makers game. The part I like is the years of lies when they say they dip the bodies in a rust preventative, I have a 1957 salesman book saying similar, and we know how bad some of those years can be as a pile of rust.
Like I say someone can be looking all day at the bottom of some of these vehicles and never see the problem, if the rusting is all inside the box sections, out of sight out of mind.
With proper treatment inside those sections and sealing all holes and seams so there is zero ingress of water etc.and all welded seams painted with primer before welding this stuff could be almost eliminated as a problem. But most people are more worried about a big fancy screen and a ton of electronics rather than a rust free vehicle.
I reread the very first post on this topic.
They are wrong, it is a manufacturing defect. Just as I pointed out.
Those parts were not protected in the hidden areas if done correctly there would be no rust inside. And if done correctly on the outside the only thing that would have caused rust would be manually removing the paint and or protective coating.
So the metal was not protected during the manufacturing process. If the latex paint they use was applied directly to steel that could aid in starting a rusting issue.
