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Originally Posted by kevman
What era? The 70's? No properly maintained (washed occasionally) car is rotting out in a normal life span being parked in a heated garage.
I've been down this road before of trying to find something, anything, that confirms what's largely an internet theory and all that exists is a few anecdotes. There are too many variables at play to say one way or the other with any certainty.
I'm not too bothered if you want a cold car every morning. I just believe it's a risk that's largely overstated on a few internet forums and has very little actual evidence to back it up.
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How many cars do you work on per year? I work on a bunch of SXV10, VCV10, MCV20, SXV20, MCU20, MCV30, GSL30 etc. and their Lexus counterparts all of these cars share a similar or same architecture.
It is extremely obvious which ones are in a heated garage vs. not. I looked at 6-7 cars in the salvage yard all the subframes had similar levels of rust which was minimal I of course bought the best one. None of them were even close to complete failure.
BTW this is basically 100% a result of road salt. Smaller towns in Alberta that don't use road salt but get plenty of snow are great places to buy a used car (I've done this several times).
edit - recently bought a Sienna in Claresholm, bunch of rock chips but zero rust.