Cars that don't rust?
Discussion
Eighteeteewhy said:
The 405s are galvanised as well. The thing to watch out for though is the paint, some of the colours had a poor laquer which peels off. 205s also had this but it doesn't seem as bad.
Mine is 'doom blue' but it's in pretty good shape but it's a dull shade (a mate who valets reckons even an MP wouldn't make it any better - it's just not a lustrous color). I know someone with the same car in burgundy and that looks much much nicer.[quote]Strangely though 309s of the same time are terrible for rust.
The lad who looks after mine consigned a 407 for scrap this week due to rust - admittedly rust from unrepaired accident damage but not-cost-effective-to-fix rust nevertheless - and he's sent many, many 406s that way but never a 405 (they just go and go).
There's one which still taxis around here - 440K and counting (17 years old - still original engine/gb tho it's had one clutch - yes ONE clutch).
Edited by johnpeat on Tuesday 24th April 01:55
I used to worry about rust when I lived in the UK, now I simply source all of my cars from California, Arizona, Texas, Nevada etc.
The 1993 W124 Mercedes I bought my wife has minimal rust around the body or underneath. It's not even galvanised and it is a Chicago car. It gets it alkl through good design - in stark contrast to its successor the W210
Mark 2 VW Golfs are pretty reslient against the tin worm (the later post 1990 cars are worse due to skimping on cavity wax). Again Mk 3 Golfs are pretty shoddy in that department.
Galvanised Porsches are about as good as steel cars get. So if they're starting to rust in 20 or so years they're about as good as you're likely to get. Even though 944s were galvanised I found the nekarsulm cars slightly inferior to the 911s and 928s
Fiat Tipos and Tempras and even Alfa 155s were galvanised to try to do away with the poor reputation Italian cars had.
The 1993 W124 Mercedes I bought my wife has minimal rust around the body or underneath. It's not even galvanised and it is a Chicago car. It gets it alkl through good design - in stark contrast to its successor the W210
Mark 2 VW Golfs are pretty reslient against the tin worm (the later post 1990 cars are worse due to skimping on cavity wax). Again Mk 3 Golfs are pretty shoddy in that department.
Galvanised Porsches are about as good as steel cars get. So if they're starting to rust in 20 or so years they're about as good as you're likely to get. Even though 944s were galvanised I found the nekarsulm cars slightly inferior to the 911s and 928s
Fiat Tipos and Tempras and even Alfa 155s were galvanised to try to do away with the poor reputation Italian cars had.
GC8 said:
They do, but that doesnt mean that they live forever. Even the newest 944 was built over 21 years ago now.
I cant speak of 944s but my 924s are bloddy good (and they are very similar structural wise except for the flared wings), my 924turbo (completely galvanized) needed welding a hole in the battery tray since there were leaked acid there. And that is after 10+ years outside on a lawn (when i bought it, and its 30 years old, the n/a (half galvanized, pre 80) dont have any rust either, only some small stone chips that has resultet in small rust spots. The paint isnt so good though, but when you compare to the competitors from the 70s they are all gone Interesting to see the frenchies here, i have had a R5 and a clio ´00. They were both rust free. Suprising when you think about the salt pool that you call winter here
.But i shed a tear everytime I walk past a merc from the rust age. There is a guy that has an e class at the parking lot at work that is so rusty I just want to slap the merc people that made this in the face
Marquis Rex said:
Fiat Tipos and Tempras and even Alfa 155s were galvanised to try to do away with the poor reputation Italian cars had.
I come from a bit of a 'Fiat family' - we've alwas had at least one for as long as I can remember, and I've had a 155.From the introduction of the Type Four project onwards (Croma/Thema/164/9000), they're almost completely impervious. You might eventually need to do some minor welding on the floorpan but you don't get the departing subframes and frilly wheelarches of Fiats past.
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