Rust Encyclopaedia

[seth]

I own some of this car.

 

 

The tailgate remains and both sides mostly.

 

 

 

[barrett]

I wonder what happened to the Ashley shell that guy had? I'd probably still find a home for that, even just as a garden ornament...

[seth]

I wonder what happened to the Ashley shell that guy had? I'd probably still find a home for that, even just as a garden ornament...

 

Well its either still there or its been chopped into bits (to remove it from around the tree) and thrown away.  The stars didn't really quite align to get that sorted.

 

That was a great day out though, with PoG (RIP) and a wild haired country farmer type equipped with a serious pneumatic metal chopping device and various tractors.

[Barry Cade]

[Uncle Jimmy]

Rust photos? you try photoing a panda and not showing rust.

 

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Is it possible for Fiats to get dry rot?

[Des]

This is all rather depressing, fuck you iron oxide. Makes me want to build a very big 3D printer incorporating a mig welder packing the biggest spool of wire available, shove it up to an old snotter, feed the computer an archive picture / crayon sketch of how things should be, and go off and snort big fat lines pausing on occasion to check progress and splash on a drop of red oxide.

Possibly expensive, but printing off the odd OMG Mecksico shelz wiv bubbel archers innit should cover it and some marching powder.

[Bobthebeard]

 

'Galvanised' Porsche 944

[inconsistant]

I'm sorry but the Porsche 924 is fully galvanised so I won't be taking part in this thread.

 

 

 

 

Oh, hang on a minute...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barry Cade]

That's my experience of "galvanised" 924's and also 944's. I think they got the zinc and saline solution mixed up in the factory.

[danthecapriman]

All the best cars rust like hell.

I actually like welding, I'd rather do that than work on engines/mechanical stuff I think!

[sdelasal]

The "yellow chalk of pain"! - Is that a piece of standard kit in the MOT'er tool kit?

[sierraman]

The galvanising must have worked to some extent. The equivalent Capri or Manta would have been like that at 8-10 years old.

[Tamworthbay]

The galvanising must have worked to some extent. The equivalent Capri or Manta would have been like that at 8-10 years old.

last year I bought a Capri and my mate got a 924, both Y plates with similar levels of history. His is FAR worse than mine, or was as they are both pretty much rust free now. The extent of rot in the 924 floor to sill area was scary. I used to have a 944 turbo and that was getting crusty in some areas after seven years.

[fatharris]

Next time I'm on the computer I'll share the photos of the Primera and the Mini, one is worse than the other by some fair margin.

 

Hint: its the one built further up country.

 

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[Barry Cade]

The galvanising must have worked to some extent. The equivalent Capri or Manta would have been like that at 8-10 years old.

Maybe, but the average Essex geezer with a 1.6 GL probably didn't have a heated garage and Porsche technicians giving it the once over for the first 6 years. From my experience of Porches, the metal rusts from within and between the galvanising, which should be impossible... more like zinc coated steel...

[Barry Cade]

The "yellow chalk of pain"! - Is that a piece of standard kit in the MOT'er tool kit?

Yes. It's actually crayon tho. You don't have to mark the fails, but many do. Also handy to put a big X on the petrol tank when you think it's a VOSA car....

[MarvinsMom]

Maybe, but the average Essex geezer with a 1.6 GL probably didn't have a heated garage and Porsche technicians giving it the once over for the first 6 years. From my experience of Porches, the metal rusts from within and between the galvanising, which should be impossible... more like zinc coated steel...

 

thing is that its not "proper" hot dipped galvanizing but that bloody stupid electro magnetic paint shizzle that car makers love to use. the one where there is an "electric charge" on the body in the paint booth that is supposed to attract the "galv" stuff into the cars body.

 

it never ever works, not properly.

 

with car bodywork been made out of thin gauge steel, and having loads of sealed box sections and the like, you couldn't galv it properly without either totally distorting the body shell, and blowing zinc all over as the air escapes out of the box sections.

[Bucketeer]

 

[somewhatfoolish]

Some septic softroader thing with rampant tinworm.