Jap Import - Rust

[Mr Gaga]

When people said to me in the past Jap imports (in the main) are better nick than a UK model, I always took it with a pinch of salt.

Wow... Look at this;

http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=322...

And when you see the picture of the car (bodywork etc) further down the thread you can see that some cars can be death traps underneath but look great on top.

Edited by Mr Gaga on Tuesday 11th May 16:40

[WildCards]

Looks like the underseal treatment required for most imported cars wasn't done, or was done to an extremely poor standard. If it's done well enough early on that would never happen.

[soad]

Christ, car looks so fresh (untill you look closer underneath)...

[gj88]

Pretty shocking considering how the car looks externally.

[Munter]

WildCards said:

Looks like the underseal treatment required for most imported cars wasn't done, or was done to an extremely poor standard. If it's done well enough early on that would never happen.

I'm assuming it's different for EVOs from your comment but the import MX5s have exactly the same underseal in UK or Jap spec. So it's not true for all Jap imports.

I'm told though that there is a vast difference between the cars from the north and south islands. One of them seems to provide a lot of rusty cars compared to the other (north I think).