Plastic for cooling sucks.

Ford also uses plastic prolifically in their cooling systems now. It's pretty stupid
My daughter's 2007 Taurus has the tank with the rad cap on it.

For some reason the plastic started to desintargrate in one spot, like what happens to plastic that has been in the sun for 50 years. It was about 1/2 as thick as the rest of the plastic.
Rather then wait till it blows I replaced the tank.