Re: Save our Sills!
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 8:39 pm
Hi Russ
I take a good few photos of the XM jobs and bits that I carry out.
I have always meant to start posting some of them but other things always get in the way.
That car came my way for scrapping just over 7 years ago.
The main interest was the engine which had only done 60k but the rest including exclusive trim helped build the spares heaps.
It had a buyer lined up and was sent to get a new MOT.
All looked very good, for example jacking points all straight with covers present.
It was the recent extra layers of underseal on a car that had no welding history that set things going.
It is not the only 2.5 exclusive car that has come my way due to rust bucket problems.
The other one was high mileage but with a very unusual pinhole rust problem, owner induced while trying to protect it.
There were a few other weldable rust problems and with that done it got a years MOT.
So it got used for a while then stripped internally, filled with unwanted spares and the driven to a friend to dispose of the shell.
As a result no photos of that one.
In this case it seems the previous owner had at some stage become concerned about the condition of the underseal.
It had been stripped and the underseal coating renewed.
It must have been damp when this was done as the under surface of the coating was a series of penny size little bumps virtually everywhere.
You needed to spot one before you realised they were there and noticed the rest.
With it on a ramp we started to probe a few of the bumps with a small electrical screwdriver.
Small quantities of rusty water dropped from each.
The worst bit though was that in nearly every case the screwdriver blade went through the floor pan at the centre.
It became clear there were hundreds of 3-4mm holes in the floor pans.
John
I take a good few photos of the XM jobs and bits that I carry out.
I have always meant to start posting some of them but other things always get in the way.
That car came my way for scrapping just over 7 years ago.
The main interest was the engine which had only done 60k but the rest including exclusive trim helped build the spares heaps.
It had a buyer lined up and was sent to get a new MOT.
All looked very good, for example jacking points all straight with covers present.
It was the recent extra layers of underseal on a car that had no welding history that set things going.
It is not the only 2.5 exclusive car that has come my way due to rust bucket problems.
The other one was high mileage but with a very unusual pinhole rust problem, owner induced while trying to protect it.
There were a few other weldable rust problems and with that done it got a years MOT.
So it got used for a while then stripped internally, filled with unwanted spares and the driven to a friend to dispose of the shell.
As a result no photos of that one.
In this case it seems the previous owner had at some stage become concerned about the condition of the underseal.
It had been stripped and the underseal coating renewed.
It must have been damp when this was done as the under surface of the coating was a series of penny size little bumps virtually everywhere.
You needed to spot one before you realised they were there and noticed the rest.
With it on a ramp we started to probe a few of the bumps with a small electrical screwdriver.
Small quantities of rusty water dropped from each.
The worst bit though was that in nearly every case the screwdriver blade went through the floor pan at the centre.
It became clear there were hundreds of 3-4mm holes in the floor pans.
John