What could have caused this?

In every nook and cranny of my truck there is dirt. And even some dog hair. Whole truck actually smells like dog. I took out the cup holders and looked behind the instrument panel. Caked in dirt. I bought this truck used a few years ago. After looking at it today I thought it might have been flooded at some point. Or could it have been from mudding or off roading? Dirt, in every place

 

Silty flood run off

 

Flooded

 

I'm thinking a combination of both.

 

Got it Used? Flooded Truck?

 

You also have mice in there.

 

Looks like that truck sat in muddy floodwater that slowly receded.

 

Global warming?

 

Those are mouse prints.

 

You are right, over the winter there was some mice or maybe even a squirrel because there was a lot of nuts piled up in the back door pocket lol

 

When I lived on a dirt road thats exactly how the under dash looked. On my rockcrawler, it will get that same level of silty dirt in every nook and cranny after a summer of wheeling with no doors. I would expect way more rust and scale if it had been submerged.

 

I'd say that bad boy went for a swim. Have you checked the carfax to see if anything was reported?

 

I'm thinking flooded truck.
Do you know where it came from? Like mentioned check the Carfax.

Welcome from NY.

 

Agreed - It looks like it was a dusty farm truck. there are spaces where you would see water lines

 

This kind of looks like dried water droplets behind the radio screen

 

Yeah your truck took a dive of some sort.

 

Like others said, possibly a flooded vehicle. Pull the carpeting up and see what you find.

 

ouch..looks like flood vehicle. hope you got a good deal and was it disclosed to you ?

 

Lived on a dirt road IMO. That shit gets EVERYWHERE. I don't think it was flooded.

 

dirt is one thing but rust everywhere behind dashboard is something else.

 

Don't we have a member here that can run a Carfax for free? I can't remember his username. Maybe someone can tag him.

 

Agreed. That rust isn’t supposed to be there.

 

plus behind radio and up the roof line.

 

The only thing from carfax is some damage reported. There is about 4 dents currently on the truck

 

That's not just dirt or dust. That's remnants of mud. That truck got submerged.

 

tundras.com be like ..must be a slow day at work

 

I'll xwhatever probably not a flood truck but a dirt road truck. It gets everywhere, even worse if you leave the windows down or even park it with a window down. The surface rust under the dash has been on pretty much every vehicle I've owned here in PA, the floor mats get wet and stay wet and rusts all the exposed steel.

 

In the 2.5 years I've had it I haven't had any major problems... But now I'm scared lol. This forum is great, lots of quick responses right off the bat. Thank you all so much. Guess I'm just a sucker

 

You can't go by CarFax. Accidents, damage and flooded vehicles are often not reported. A vehicle listed on carfax stating a clean record, could in fact have damage. This happened to me when I was trying to buy a BMW 1M,
Carfax showed it being a clean one owner car. At the time I was doing work for one of the biggest private auto dealerships in my area. I had mentioned that I was looking to buy this car. Thankfully he told me or rather suggested to have the car looked at. It was coming from down south and where they have had recent heavy flooding. I had reached out on the BMW forums and had a PPI done on the car. The cost of PPI and the cost of the forum member to help me out, had saved me thousands of dollars. Car was discovered to have flood damage.