I still think Ohio probably is one of the worst states, if not THE worst state for rust. I have seen like 10 year old cars with large holes down the length of the doors from where they rusted out. Dodge Caravans seem to be the biggest problem vehicle for this, also those Caravans get wicked bad strut tower rust. My friend's girlfriend's mother's Caravan has a hole in the strut tower almost as big as my fist.
Yeah. The northern part of north america is bad in general for rust. But so long as you keep up on checking it and washing the underneath of the car it general won't grow, unless you completely neglect it.
I still think Ohio probably is one of the worst states, if not THE worst state for rust. I have seen like 10 year old cars with large holes down the length of the doors from where they rusted out. Dodge Caravans seem to be the biggest problem vehicle for this, also those Caravans get wicked bad strut tower rust. My friend's girlfriend's mother's Caravan has a hole in the strut tower almost as big as my fist.
And yes, I think that will work fantastically. My festiva was originally from new York and it still has all those original lines and they're no where close to rusting nor were they before I painted them. That yellow will look wicked under there too! 👍
This would be a good chance for you to prevent that rust if they're all newer lines. Give them even just a coat of primer. As far as I've seen overall in Canada, the cars are eat up with rust. I've precoated the bottom with some red oxide just to prevent that from happening to mine. I am however, making most of the body rusty, so it kind of defeats the purpose. It will be only surface rust though.
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TIL what a pain in the butt it is to replace stock brake lines with stock brake lines on a northern Festiva
This would be a good chance for you to prevent that rust if they're all newer lines. Give them even just a coat of primer. As far as I've seen overall in Canada, the cars are eat up with rust. I've precoated the bottom with some red oxide just to prevent that from happening to mine. I am however, making most of the body rusty, so it kind of defeats the purpose. It will be only surface rust though.
One winter I got to the Buffalo airport ahead of time for a flight to New York City, I had a big parka on and laid down for a snooze. Someone pulled up and flung their door open and hit my car with me in it. Boy they were scared when I jumped out in my huge parka. Six feet of anger in a huge winter parka. What's the big idea of smashing your door into my car like that? How much are you going to give me to fix it?
That's why my daily-driver auto is such a beater. Come out of Big Lots and the guy in the Mustang 'accidentally' parks to where I have to enter via passenger door, because my driver's door has a single foot to open?
Whoops. I just added a small ding to my door.. and it's got a little Mustang green on it, too!
I've got a pix of my Festiva taken about 10 days ago. No door ding. Today, door ding. Right down to the friggin' bare metal. No note. No phone number. No nothing. And what are the odds that some idiot smacks their door hard enough to destroy the other car's paint layer right down to the bare metal and not know what they just did? About zero....
I hate, h-a-t-e, HATE inconsiderate people!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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