Early v8 Vantage door corrosion - not around handles

[LPH]

Had my car just over a week. 2006MY (reg in 2007) V8. It has a little bit of the well document door handle area corrosion that was spotted by me and the guys who inspected the car for me. Spent many hours cleaning it last weekend as you do when you get a 'new' car) and found a couple of other areas such as a tiny 'blister' on the passenger side wing - no idea what that is as they are composite. Unless it's a bit of moisture trapped in there and bubling out in the same way that Lotus have this paint issue.

Anyway, yesterday I noticed this at the bottom (front) edge of the driver's door. Wasn't spotted by me or in the inspection, or when I cleaned it last week, but it's obviously been there a while. I will get it sorted when I do the corrosion around the door handle as it's on the same door but have never seen any reference to corrosion in this spot when reading up about these cars.



Common, or just bad luck on my part?

[Manx V8V]

I found a couple of similar small bubbles on my 2006 car a few days after purchase when I got down to giving it a thorough polish.

Mine are 2 just inboard of the leading edge on the drivers door, and 1 on the rear edge of the roof, they are small and I decided to leave them and just keep an eye on them.

Two years on and they havent grown, so I dont worry about them.

[johnnyBv8]

My first Vantage (2006) had alloy corrosion along the lower edge of the door like this - presumably the rubber door aperture seals wears through the paint over time. Your pic looks like it's developing further along the edge too.

[LPH]

Cheers for the replies - so not unheard of then!

As you say, I'll keep an eye on them and probably get them sorted eventually.

[MarkM3Evoplus]

Get a local repair done, where they just remove the corrosion, fill and paint that small area in the grey paint, then lacquer the whole door. That's what I had done and you can't see the repair.

[dlm18]

Have you checked around the bottom of the wing morrors?also the the wing mirror stalks as well?they tend to go.

[LPH]

dlm18 said:

Have you checked around the bottom of the wing morrors?also the the wing mirror stalks as well?they tend to go.

I was expecting to find corrosion there but that's all fine.

[dlm18]

LPH said:

I was expecting to find corrosion there but that's all fine.

That's a good thing.😊

[GingerMunky]

LPH said:

Had my car just over a week. 2006MY (reg in 2007) V8. It has a little bit of the well document door handle area corrosion that was spotted by me and the guys who inspected the car for me. Spent many hours cleaning it last weekend as you do when you get a 'new' car) and found a couple of other areas such as a tiny 'blister' on the passenger side wing - no idea what that is as they are composite. Unless it's a bit of moisture trapped in there and bubling out in the same way that Lotus have this paint issue.

Anyway, yesterday I noticed this at the bottom (front) edge of the driver's door. Wasn't spotted by me or in the inspection, or when I cleaned it last week, but it's obviously been there a while. I will get it sorted when I do the corrosion around the door handle as it's on the same door but have never seen any reference to corrosion in this spot when reading up about these cars.

Common, or just bad luck on my part?

Hand the same on my 06 plate. Hand it fixed, together with door handles when I had a front end respray.

[LPH]

There are some stone chips on the front but only the bumper really so doesn't need ding yet. The front edges of the rear arches are worse, they part above the sills has no protection film on at all.

If I do get them all sorted I'll get it all done in one go.