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Apr 19th, 2018, 21:35 | #41 |
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I would direct Canis to the project thread on my Volvo 240 for a cowboy job... from a Volvo approved bodyshop who were also my employers... and who charged £1500 for the pleasure.
Either way having worked for a while with a mechanic who's got about 20 years experience, I've come across cars which seem to rust more than others. Vauxhall are very hit and miss. According to said mechanic, Vectras are terrible, whereas 2000 onwards Corsas are very good compared to other cars similar age. But then there's Ford, Mazda, Mercedes, old Suzukis and to be frank, a lot of other Japanese cars. They certainly rust more than others. A few stragglers I've noticed over time are the Mk 4 Golf (sills) and the Peugeot 307, which has double-layered sills that rust from the inside out, so by the time you can see it, it's much worse than you think!
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Jul 27th, 2018, 21:15 | #42 |
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I had a 2001 Merc E 320 CDi saloon once. I washed it in 2009 and just caught sight of some of the rust swirls under the paint surface on the boot.
I then looked closer at the rest of the car and they were all over so it had to be sold. Prefect spec for me at the time, great towcar, and I was very sad to see it go but it would have turned into a rust bucket without a full respray.
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Jul 29th, 2018, 21:15 | #45 |
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Well in all honesty I get no end of enjoyment seeing supposedly superior vehicles rusting into the tarmac as though they where still using the Ukrainian steel Lada duped Fiat with in 60's for the licence to copy the 124 resulting in most 60's to 80's Fiats, Lancia et al rusting like fun oh and Zanussi white goods, I digress:-)
Over the past decade I've seen shed loads of less than ten year old cars with bubbly arches and shot (usually patched) sills, not just a Ford Focus or T type Jaguar in fact most of them where German not the usual A Class colander either but Audi's and VW, only last week I saw an A6 on 59 plate with all it arches rusted through, I havent seen that since my upstairs neighbors Montego Countryman. As for Mercedes they did have a really poor period for bodywork my worst sighting being when I was at school (1998) my head teacher had a P plate C220 with peppered front wings, yup a C class still a year from its first MOT an he lorded it around as if a rusty two year old Mercedes was something to aspire to. Scott |
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