ARGH...Rust....

[KickerBeast]

Is anyone else starting to have problems with rust forming? Seems like over this last winter my car went to ****. I have squeaks while turning, clearcoat pealing around the door trim and one handle, and rust on the passenger rear door. It is on the lower inside of the door behind the door seal. I took the seal off, ground off the rust, and repainted it. You couldn't see it cuz of the door seal, but I noticed some rust streaks on the side skirt. I take good care of my cars exterior. I wash it weekly, wax it monthly, and claybar it each spring. It just sucks and it feels like I'm going to be fighting a losing battle because it has gone behind the fold on the outer door skin, so I know it is inside the door and I know it will only be a matter of time until it rusts through. I guess I will start looking for a good door to replace it when the time comes.

Also, my headlights were really getting faded, so I wet sanded them with 400 grit and spray caned some clear coat on them. It worked pretty well. I had to do it quickly and there are some bubbles in it. I bet you could get them recleared at a body shop for a lot less than buying new ones. I painted the wipers and cowl with some satin black. With all of those painted and the headlights redone, it made the car look a lot better. I'm going to work on trim on the on the doors next. They are really cracking so I'm going to see what I can do to fill the cracks and repaint those soon. I really want to find new exterior window seals and glass runs to make it really pop again. If anyone has a good source for these external parts then let me know.


RUST...:rainshit:

 

[shadownos4]

I don't want to be a ****-joy but my 97 was the same way. I hate to tell you that the rockers are probably gone. My car was like new but I was under the car when it was on a lift and noticed the rocker cover buldgeing and of course I poked it and it fell apart. It was a disaster but I had it rebuilt and good as new.

 

[ThatShoGuy]

mine is showing some surface rust on about the side skit peices no bigger then a 1/4 in 2-3 spots. i wanna get to it and sand it and paint it again along with the wheel well lips are getting surface rust..

and all the seems on the bottom all are starting to show surface rust in the cracks. i wanna get some kind of rust stopping under coating.


all in all im just happy it runs...

since i owned the car i wash it at least once a week try to wax it once a month or more.. and try to clay bar it once the snow is gone! but none of the spots i name really gets any of the above on them...

if i plan to have the car last i need to do somthing this year!

guess ill see what happens... at least yours is only the door..

 

[Ian Macoomb]

The only way to avoid it is not driving it in the winter. Get yourself a beater like a Geo. 12 or 13" snow tires are really cheap.

Yours Truly
The King of Rust

 

[SHORANGERBIRD]

Is anyone else starting to have problems with rust forming?

-what is this thing called "Rust" you speak of????!!!.......lol:laugh_ti:

 

[Funmart6]

-what is this thing called "Rust" you speak of????!!!.......lol:laugh_ti:

+1, I hear it is some kind of mutated virus that affects the molecular structure of metal up above the mason-dixon.

These cars are so plentiful at "pull-a-part" type of places, why not just replace the affected door?

Quick remedy for foggy/yellowed headlights, use some polishing compound and a buffer, clears 'em right up.

 

[Pro*banshee]

PleasePleasePleasePleasePlease keep fixing the rust... Please think of my terminal midnight blue 93 MTX when you sand away that cancer :cries:

 

[KickerBeast]

+1, I hear it is some kind of mutated virus that affects the molecular structure of metal up above the mason-dixon.

These cars are so plentiful at "pull-a-part" type of places, why not just replace the affected door?

Quick remedy for foggy/yellowed headlights, use some polishing compound and a buffer, clears 'em right up.

As yes...you southerners no nothing of rust.....

I will probably look for another door in the near future. All the others look fine, but I noticed some more rust forming in the engine compartment.

I tried polishing the headlights....the haze came back. I know the clear coat will last longer and I can polish it really nicely.

 

[stephen newberg]

The only way to avoid it is not driving it in the winter. Get yourself a beater like a Geo. 12 or 13" snow tires are really cheap.

Yours Truly
The King of Rust

Or live somewhere that they do not use salt on the roads in winter...

pax, smn

 

[shobote]

The only way to avoid it is not driving it in the winter. Get yourself a beater like a Geo. 12 or 13" snow tires are really cheap.

Yours Truly
The King of Rust

If the car is badly rusted (underneath), I wouldn't spend the time and money with trying to repair the outsides cosmetically, or add any performance upgrades; rust free SHO's are available in the south for cheap, rusted cars are not worth anything on the resale market.

 

[ThatShoGuy]

If the car is badly rusted (underneath), I wouldn't spend the time and money with trying to repair the outsides cosmetically, or add any performance upgrades; rust free SHO's are available in the south for cheap, rusted cars are not worth anything on the resale market.

its just lightly its not taking the car over yet.. im sure if i get it sand blasted and paint it or undercoat it, it would be fine. and im not worried about cost since i would be doing the work my self. this car has to much money and hard work in it to let it go for a little rust..

sorry if you comment wasnt to me!

 

[SHORANGERBIRD]

its just lightly its not taking the car over yet.. im sure if i get it sand blasted and paint it or undercoat it, it would be fine. and im not worried about cost since i would be doing the work my self. this car has to much money and hard work in it to let it go for a little rust..

-true....
believe it or not the 2 SHOs i've kept the longest and put the most in, both are from the northern states. one from Ohio, the other Illinois. neither were as bad as i thought they'd be.....:woo-hoo:

 

[Motoman991]

My car has rust behind the driver side rear door on the bottom of the wheel well. It sucks.

 

[pitaSHO]

A trucker friend of mine said that some states are now using a liquid form of ice melter. The salt stays mainly on the surface, but the liquid stuff is more aggressive than the salt and gets in places that otherwise would have been safe from salt. He has had to have some of his rig re-wired because it got into the wires and corroded them to crap... I'm reeeeeeeeeaally spoiled in the NW. Everything comes apart the way it's supposed to. Cars out here wear out or wreck. No rust. Never seen so many old cars and trucks anywhere...

Chris K.

 

[KickerBeast]

I noticed I'm getting some rust colored seeping around the seam on the inside of the sunroof. I give up...it may be time for another car. This is a battle that I don't even want to start on.

 

[Mr Anonymous]

The '96+ cars are 10000% less rust-prone than the earlier cars, but still in the end it comes down to how well the car was taken care of.

We have customers with 150K+ mile V8 cars that they drive every winter and are still rust-free. They're just religious about running them through the car wash regularly when they've been driving in the salt.

 

[Funmart6]

I grew up in Florida very close to the beach, there were a lot of rusted cars down there due to the salt in the air. That sea spray coats everything , but I was always spraying my car off, (whatever car I had at the time).
When I moved up here to central Alabama, I noticed that there were more older vehicles running around up here, they just seem to last longer.
My car originally was in Memphis TN, and it has absolutely no rust anywhere, I am amazed that even the exhaust system is clean.

 

[spragers]

The '96+ cars are 10000% less rust-prone than the earlier cars, but still in the end it comes down to how well the car was taken care of.

Whoever designed the gen 1 & 2 door seams should be slapped. My aunt has an '89 Taurus with less than 25k miles, religiously maintained, but her doors are still rusting from the bottom up. Then they put those drains on the Gen 3 doors... no more rusty doors