2006 Pontiac Vibe Base model AWD. Tried looking at suspension diagrams for the Vibe and Matrix but cant find a name for this part.

>>28541564 (OP)
I dunno, but the whole damn thing might be a one-piece engine cradle and suspension mount. You're fucking cooked, without doing some serious junkyarding.

>2006 Pontiac Vibe
>that amount of rust
It's time for a new car bro.

Is it this?

>>28541630
That does appear to be what I'm looking at, thank you senpai

>>28541619
Jap cars dont rust out

>>28541599
I dont think theres a junkyard in heaven or hell where ill find slavation for this

>>28541654
get a big fuckoff half inch impact and a torch
if you snap a subframe bolt just scrap the thing

>>28541651
Not following your train of thought here, chief. Can you elaborate?

>>28541645
Be aware that basically EVERYTHING on the back end has to come off to replace this and it will be a fight on every single bolt.

>>28541564 (OP)
The more I see anons having to rebuild not just their engine but their entire car the more I realize I should focus on moving into a real house with a real garage instead of trying to buy a new car. No point having a car you really want if you can't wrench it because unless you bought it new you've got a lot of the previous owners shit to fix.

>>28541767
>unless you bought it new you've got a lot of the previous owners to fix.
This is so damn true. Solid workhorse sedan but still it has so many things to clean up off of the previous owner's ass.

>>28541645
invest in some gibbsbrand spray lube or seafoam deepcreep, a heat gun, a long pipe, and a willingness to wait hours or days for multiple applications to percolate depending on how fucked up the bolt you really don't want to strip is
you'll need it

>>28541763
not with a hot enough torch
not even kidding op rent an oxyacetylene setup if you plan to do this job

>>28541814
what gun won't touch bolts like that, propane won't even do it. you need oxygen. these bolts need to be red hot and then you'll have a chance
t. worked in a quarry fixing rusty 50 year old equipment

dude, your fucked lmao. Dont even look at it much less strip/break the head off every bolt you attempt

>>28541564 (OP)
Just spray foam the hole and continue to drive it while you save for your next car

It's a unibody. You'll be fine long enough to get something else. It's not like it's a bof vehicle and it's structurally giggafucked.

>>28542021
Thank you so much anon for these words of assurance. I knew i was on borrowed time, looking at the part it's so rusted through it's literally not attached to anything and it must have been like this for a whole day of me driving on it. The wheel isnt sideways and on the ground so i figured as fucked as it was, it was the most fucked it could be. So thank you for reassuring that thought.

>>28542068
>ricky

>>28542068
It's a subframe, it still has the top half holding together, and you could probably find a whole new one in a junkyard that isn't as bad and just swap it in.

>>28542101 this, i did this on my cavalier and it was just a shitty cavalier, and know a guy who did the same thing to the same car that was even rustier with more miles than mine. at least if OP fixed this it'd he'd be fixing an AWD 1zz. you might be suprised at how intact the unibody might be under that frame. at the time i removed it looked a bit better than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YlmUjwYzA4. chances are anything you find in the junkyard will be just as bad, likely the reason the car was junked so you'd probably have to buy one online like i did from a junkyard in a non hellhole like arizona that doesn't salt their roads. when it showed up, there was not a spec of rust and i installed that part and replaced all the other worn suspension parts over the span of a few days, and it drove like a brand new car afterward. if i remember right none of the bolts even stripped or snapped somehow, sub frame bolts are pretty damn hard. but, one never quite threaded in right so i just smeared the shit out of it with lock tight and hoped for the best. to be fair though, this part was half the price of what you're looking at right now, and if that's the back, who knows what the front sub frame looks like on that thing. i'd say it's fixable where it stands but with that level of rust you're probably gonna run into something unfixable in the future unless own a welder or plan on buying one. if you're thinking about junking it i would atleast try removing it, if you manage to get the part off you can probably fix it, but if the situation is too fucked and you snap too many bolts you can always call the junkyard to come pick it up afterward.

>>28541814
Fuck that. Plan to buy all new bolts from the off. Soak everything in about a can's worth of PBlaster the day before, give them one try with a breaker/pipe and if strips or rounds, right to the plasma cutter/oxy torch. Gobs of antiseize on the way back in. My time's not worth fiddling and fretting to avoid dropping $30 at the hardware store. Especially because despite your best efforts and a few hours more work it'll probably still be about $10.

>>28542295
If you're replacing the subframe assembly you're putting new bolts in regardless bro. Not sure what you're trying to say here.

>>28542079
Nah, rickys my neighbor

>>28542101
Thank you but i dont have the space (apartment living) and i dont live like a porch monkey just street wrenching it and taking up half the road with parts and tools. Im just gonna have to scrap it.

>>28542288
Double dubs checked, thank you for your story and your vote of confidence but i dont have the time or expertise, im probably either going to scrap it or sell it for parts then scrap it. Im glad it worked out with your Cavalier!

>>28541651
>Jap cars dont rust out
Tranime cope

>>28541651
yes they do
>pain

>>28543320
Take your ai shit back to the gooner boards, eurofag.

>>28543358
No they dont
>>cope harder

>>28543361
>>28543365
Nice tranime cope, japan is the most overrated country on this planet.

>>28543374
Thats literally a 2008 Chrysler Town and Country with a Maza logo thing slapped on. (Class A mechanic for 25 years, 32 years experience in the field)

>>28543900
it is quite literally a Mazda Protege5

>>28543320
>>28543374
Posting anything from Quebec should be a 1-month ban.

>>28543320
How in the FUCK

>>28543365
yes they do retard lmao

>>28543361
No, mazdas actually rust that bad.

>>28542068
You're still on borrowed time. Save up for something else and continue to drive the shitheap until the subframe fails and you come home one day as a stancefag. Donate the car to charity so they can sell it to a junkyard for scrap. They'll come tow it out if your driveway. I'd laats long enough that you end up with the car and the replacement car then make it the dedicated winter shitbox and spare car fo when the new one is in the shop.

>>28543297
I'll give you $200 for it as it sits. I ain't afraid of a little rust
>pic rel, my daily

>>28543900
even here in eastern europe older mazdas are NOTORIOUS for rusting easily.

>>28543900
>>28543921
retard lmao

>>28543320
>>28543374