Rust appearing behind rear wheel arches - V70 1999
I have a tailgate rattle and wondered if it was something else - so poked around under the offside rear cover (near the tail lamps), where there's a piece of foam stapled to a bit of plastic and looking from underneath there's a hole - presumably to let air out of the car. This bit underneath is wet and getting rusty (a small chunk of rusty something came away in my hand). It's drier on the near side because that's warmer near the exhaust pipe.
However, I'll leave it as the car has a limited life (perhaps 3 to 5 more years) and underneath you can see it's no longer rust free.
The seats are starting to come apart (cloth seams), there's the rattle that won't go away even when fixing new clips to the tailgate cover, and eventually the rubbers on the spring and engine mounts will perish (already in bits). If there is welding needed because of rust, it's probably time it went to the scrap yard to join most of the other S/V70s and 850s 1991-1999.
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