Fiat Ducato Underside cleaning up.
Discussion
We have purchased a 2006 MK2 Fiat Ducato, 85k miles, in really good mechanical condition.
Upon first inspection, the underside looked fairly good, although it did fail an MOT in 2019 on suspension mounting points, which was fixed obviously. No mention of that in the May 2020 MOT. The rear end was looking worse for wear, a few holes appeared, we had them welded up and the guy at the garage maintains that it is a good clean van and is not a 'rot box'.
I'm just looking for a bit of encouragement with regards to cleaning it up underneath as there are bits of flaky underseal and bits of surface rust. I'll attach various images from my phone after I post this, but I'm hoping it is as simple as using a flap wheel/knotted wire brush on my disc cutter and cleaning it back to clean metal, and then coating as required. I tested the flap wheel on one of the seemingly worse bits and it went to clean metal quite quickly.
Annoyingly I did find a hole in the front offside wheel arch liner. Rest seems okay.
Again, the garage had a good look underneath and couldn't find anything else worth worrying about as I wanted to make sure it was worth putting the money into.
From the images I put up, does anyone mind giving their opinion on whether my planned method will likely work?
I was always adamant I didn't want anything to do with rust, but silly me bought the van anyway thinking it wasn't an issue. We really just want to make it decent enough for a few years use before we go onto a bigger van most likely.
Edit - first mention of corrosion at all was 2018 MOT as an advisory.
Cheers
Upon first inspection, the underside looked fairly good, although it did fail an MOT in 2019 on suspension mounting points, which was fixed obviously. No mention of that in the May 2020 MOT. The rear end was looking worse for wear, a few holes appeared, we had them welded up and the guy at the garage maintains that it is a good clean van and is not a 'rot box'.
I'm just looking for a bit of encouragement with regards to cleaning it up underneath as there are bits of flaky underseal and bits of surface rust. I'll attach various images from my phone after I post this, but I'm hoping it is as simple as using a flap wheel/knotted wire brush on my disc cutter and cleaning it back to clean metal, and then coating as required. I tested the flap wheel on one of the seemingly worse bits and it went to clean metal quite quickly.
Annoyingly I did find a hole in the front offside wheel arch liner. Rest seems okay.
Again, the garage had a good look underneath and couldn't find anything else worth worrying about as I wanted to make sure it was worth putting the money into.
From the images I put up, does anyone mind giving their opinion on whether my planned method will likely work?
I was always adamant I didn't want anything to do with rust, but silly me bought the van anyway thinking it wasn't an issue. We really just want to make it decent enough for a few years use before we go onto a bigger van most likely.
Edit - first mention of corrosion at all was 2018 MOT as an advisory.
Cheers
Edited by gman88667733 on Thursday 23 July 16:17
Easiest way to add photos was to add a link to my Google drive folder. Have a look here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1QX23uDxcq9...
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