I have no idea what was on Chrysler's mind when they designed the Jeep frame not to have a drain hole in it it seems like it was premeditated design to make the Jeep frame rot so you would have to buy parts I think everybody on this form should start a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer
Designed to rot
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Ever since AMC got involved with Jeeps, they have become rust buckets, And there's no excuse for it
the companys should learn from the design flaws and take action and redesign the problem areas.
the companys should learn from the design flaws and take action and redesign the problem areas.
There was definitely some poor design choices made with the frame in terms of drainage for the frame. Makes me wonder if they even attempted to fix it with the JK or JL.
I don't think the actual frame is aluminum. The windshield frame, the hood and doors and some other stuff are.
File a lawsuit for a vehicle that is 13 to 22 years old?
Mines been in CO all its life. I have no rust issues.
Frame rot on your jeep is from being out east with heavy salt
Mines been in CO all its life. I have no rust issues.
Frame rot on your jeep is from being out east with heavy salt
If the factory had designed drain holes, the rust situation would be much better. I've heard other stories about Chrysler using subpar Chinese steel, which exacerbated the issue, but I don't know if that is true or not. Plenty of cars make it 20 years in the rust belt without rotting out, but that's the way it is. I'm sure there were some forward-thinking Jeepers in the rust belt in 1998 who understood the problem and drilled their own drain holes, but that certainly wasn't me 
Devinr29
TJ Enthusiast
they definitely improved the JK frames, I've got a 2007 that's lived its entire life on the cape on the beach in the salt, daily driven through the winter on NE salted roads, it has 190k on it and the frame is rusty but no rot wholes or anything if it were a TJ it would have died long ago. My 99 I keep off the cape in total the salty roads in the winter and the salty air down there is ruthless
I know your pain. My TJ spends a lot of time in Montauk, where you smell the salt in the wind.
Head Lice
TJ Addict
Would one of you fine folks draw up a schematic of the TJ frame and show where you've drilled drain holes.
Size of hole ?
Thank you !
Size of hole ?
Thank you !
looks like I misheard it, what I thought I originally heard was the frames were aluminum and had weld issues.
https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/...pounds-lighter-uses-steel-aluminum-magnesium/
A lawsuit against the government (local, state, and/or federal), for destroying an unlimited number of various vehicles in the rust belt with salt for at least the 52 years I've been alive would be great. Some of them only lasted a couple of years.
jeepndogs
TJ Enthusiast
The frame is not aluminum, there is no full frame vehicle out with an aluminum frame. There are several unibody vehicles that have aluminum structures. The Jl frame is hydro formed 580 MPa mild steel.
Just to squeeze in on a technicality. Aircraft are vehicles and do have aluminum frames/structure.
But for a motor vehicle i can only think of i believe ford started useing aluminum frame in the f150 in 2015ish.
jeepndogs
TJ Enthusiast