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While your frustration is understandable, I still think something else is going on here. Steel does not spontaneously rust just because it's hot. Not to the extent you describe. Especially on a car you say was not winter driven. If it did, exhausts and all kinds of other parts would be falling off cars left and right. I still believe water is collecting back there somehow. Possibly due to a design flaw.

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So, how young are you? Back before stainless steel exhausts the exhaust systems did routinely fall off left and right. Especially in high salt usage areas. How you northerners can live with new vehicles being deliberately destroyed by the use of salt on the roads is beyond me. I remember my old man's Buick having nothing between his feet and the road but carpet when it was about 10 years old. Hell, the trans cooling lines rusted thru.

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You missed the part where he said the car wasn't winter driven?

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