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teaboyjim
What's the tin worm?
Edit: Ok you mean rust
What are some of the most bullet proof cars to buy in terms of reliability these days
Edit: Ok you mean rust
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Member of the woodworm family, but natural habitat is steel which forms the bulk of it's diet. Can be found worldwide, but particularly prevelant in Italian Japanese and British steel in the 60s and 70s.
Sorry to be pedantic but it doesn't so much as eat the steel as **** on it, which converts it back into the iron ore that man originally dug from the ground.
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teaboyjim
What was it that caused the rust then?
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Early vehicles were made from steel with a high sulphur content so any touching of the stuff formed a dilute sulphuric acid which didn't get it off to the best start!
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EddieM
No, it's body was brushed SS
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teaboyjim
So it was the quality of the steel that caused most of the rusting. Would they rust in hot climates also?Early vehicles were made from steel with a high sulphur content so any touching of the stuff formed a dilute sulphuric acid which didn't get it off to the best start!
John
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A warm salt free climate would certainly help....go to France and see the number of Renault 4’s, Citroen C15’s etc that are still going!
Bodyshells use more of a treated carbon steel with a galvanised wash these days so a paint chip doesn’t mean immediate disaster.
John
Bodyshells use more of a treated carbon steel with a galvanised wash these days so a paint chip doesn’t mean immediate disaster.
John
20K is way too high. I'm changing mine every 5,000 miles but only because of lots of short trips.. Diesels contaminate their oil more than petrols. Also needs to be quality oil and filter - something like Mann or Mahle filters.
Oil is cheap, engines are expensive!
Our Kuga gets 6,000 mile oil and filter changes, for 1/2 hours work and £60 it's a no brainer really.
All this "long life" 20,000 malarkey makes me wince really.
I welded up a Mk5 Transit Minibus last Christmas.
It was a right mess, ended up replacing a sill and making some inner wing panels (no parts available from what I could see).
Noticed our works old 2018 Ford Ranger had surface rust all over the wishbones and suspension, pretty shocking really.
Need to give our Kuga a good spray with waxoil or similar (haven't decided what yet).
It was a right mess, ended up replacing a sill and making some inner wing panels (no parts available from what I could see).
Noticed our works old 2018 Ford Ranger had surface rust all over the wishbones and suspension, pretty shocking really.
Need to give our Kuga a good spray with waxoil or similar (haven't decided what yet).
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Is the Ranger the one that's made in Thailand ?
Tonka's actuallyIf you are into Dinkey toys
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