Rusted out front skid plate

[Charlievee]

Fyi, i pulled my skid plates to wash the under carriage and the gas tank was in contact with its skid plate. Only a year old and rust was forming (not in the rust belt). while the skid is a bother, the tank is unacceptable. Placed some foam between the two after painting and reinstall.

 

[Bill_Sanderson]

Fyi, i pulled my skid plates to wash the under carriage and the gas tank was in contact with its skid plate. Only a year old and rust was forming (not in the rust belt). while the skid is a bother, the tank is unacceptable. Placed some foam between the two after painting and reinstall.

On my 4th generation 4Runner, the infrastructure holding the tank in place rusted to pieces. I had to replace it all, and it wasn’t an inexpensive repair.


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[Jetboy]

Fyi, i pulled my skid plates to wash the under carriage and the gas tank was in contact with its skid plate. Only a year old and rust was forming (not in the rust belt). while the skid is a bother, the tank is unacceptable. Placed some foam between the two after painting and reinstall.

Tank is plastic. If there's rust on it - it's just rust that has transferred from the skid plate.

My biggest beef is with the hardware. The rust I've had on the OEM hardware is worse than I have on my 1975 FJ40. In the same conditions for half a century. This is not how 2015 model year hardware should look...

 

[Charlievee]

Tank is plastic. If there's rust on it - it's just rust that has transferred from the skid plate.

My biggest beef is with the hardware. The rust I've had on the OEM hardware is worse than I have on my 1975 FJ40. In the same conditions for half a century. This is not how 2015 model year hardware should look...

Thats nucking futs! Amazing how expensive these things are and you can see they went above and beyond to pinch every penny.

 

[KP Texan]

Wow, this thread is timely for me. The rest of the bottom side of my 2012 looks great with regards to rust, but the skid plate looks like complete trash. I used the jack point in the middle of the plate 2 days ago to do brakes, and I could see the rusted out area crumbling as I applied pressure with the jack.

I'm on the lookout for a stock front skid in the Dallas area right now. Stock skid works fine for me, and I understand some of the aftermarket skids don't have the reinforced jack point on them that makes contact with the front crossmember - that to me is essential.

Unfortunately the Dallas group is pretty dead on this forum, but I've posted up on my local facebook group.

 

[yuki-runner]

Chiming in on a very old post to say I am having similar skid plate rust problems and looking for recommendations on where inexpensive replacements can be found?