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Has it gone the way of white Dog Poo ?
Was just pondering how it used to be a big issue but now it scarcely happens, my old 944 has a couple of little scabs so I will have to attend to them (not on the sills before the doom mongers start) but you just don't see rusty cars anymore.
Not getting nostalgic as it was a depressing thing, you washed your P and J and saw the scabs that were forming for it.Was wondering when you last dealt with any ? my last car was an nine year old Saab and it had no hint of rust anywhere on the body, some on the suspension compnents but basically none.
Whenever I look in a Classic car magazine they have pictures of abandoned classics, usually that some brave fool will attempt to restore but also cars from the sixties, seventies and eighties that are so far gone they are collapsing in on themselves (Late nineties Mercs as well), I wonder what would happen if you say took a brand new quality car, Three series BMW for example and left it outside and never used it, how long would it last before that happened ? would it happen, assume it is immune to vandalism and just left in the open on concrete in a UK climate, what would it look like after 100 years, could it be re-commissioned ?
Was just pondering how it used to be a big issue but now it scarcely happens, my old 944 has a couple of little scabs so I will have to attend to them (not on the sills before the doom mongers start) but you just don't see rusty cars anymore.
Not getting nostalgic as it was a depressing thing, you washed your P and J and saw the scabs that were forming for it.Was wondering when you last dealt with any ? my last car was an nine year old Saab and it had no hint of rust anywhere on the body, some on the suspension compnents but basically none.
Whenever I look in a Classic car magazine they have pictures of abandoned classics, usually that some brave fool will attempt to restore but also cars from the sixties, seventies and eighties that are so far gone they are collapsing in on themselves (Late nineties Mercs as well), I wonder what would happen if you say took a brand new quality car, Three series BMW for example and left it outside and never used it, how long would it last before that happened ? would it happen, assume it is immune to vandalism and just left in the open on concrete in a UK climate, what would it look like after 100 years, could it be re-commissioned ?
ciaranthemurph said:
My 2000 VW Bora with 58K on it was rusting it's arches away quite merrily when I sold it almost 5 years ago, the 306 that it had replaced didn't have a mark on it. Just had both rear arches on my e36 (1999) sorted this winter and my daily A6 TDI has plenty rust on it's front arches.
When I used to walk to college about 7-8 years ago, we used to always pass an S-Class mercedes that was only a year or two old at the time and it had visible rust on the sills, my uncles W123 was in much better condition than it.
I don't think that a day goes past when I don't see a completely rotten hanging Merc Sprinter either, I don't think that rust is finished just yet!
I am selling a Bora of that vintage and I cant see any rust anywhere ?When I used to walk to college about 7-8 years ago, we used to always pass an S-Class mercedes that was only a year or two old at the time and it had visible rust on the sills, my uncles W123 was in much better condition than it.
I don't think that a day goes past when I don't see a completely rotten hanging Merc Sprinter either, I don't think that rust is finished just yet!
Not on a wind up, cars just dont seem to rust nowadays in my experience.
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