Rust

[Ray Austin]

Our van is having some bodywork done at the moment the door steps both sides outer sill and some holes on the internal wheel arches.

As I was going there I was thinking all the other cars driving past don't seem to have a rust problem most manufactures have sorted by now so why do transits rot so much. Had a mark 5 that the tinworm got in the end had a Nissan primara at the same time with no rot at all.

Got a Vauxhall car that 3 years older then our transit that got no rot at all.

You get some car that have some rot but only in a few places but transits seem to go everywhere.

Will the mark 7 be just as bad when we get one or the mark 8 in a few years

[Punto443]

Yes the mk7 will be just as bad.

Commercial are by nature abused and neglected, and if they lasted forever, we wouldn't have to buy new ones

[ned]

My vans not rotten, its just the one built in Britain that rot, you know with all the strikes and stuff like carry on at your convenience

Anyway sprinters rot more. N

[knobby1]

Most new cars are made mostly of plastic these days...plastic doesn't rot much in my experience..!

My Daughter has a 2015 Fiesta...had a look under the bonnet....hardly a bit of steel to be seen....most everything in the front end is plastic FFS..! I know it's better for crash energy absorption etc..but the whole thing is so weak....a light tap on the front end will see it written off...!

Lord Knobrot

[rimotu66]

My vans not rotten, its just the one built in Britain that rot, you know with all the strikes and stuff like carry on at your convenience

That was back in the 70/80's wasn't it before Lady Thatcher sorted the unions out that held the country to ransom when ever they felt like it

[ned]

My vans not rotten, its just the one built in Britain that rot, you know with all the strikes and stuff like carry on at your convenience

That was back in the 70/80's wasn't it before Lady Thatcher sorted the unions out that held the country to ransom when ever they felt like it

That's what they want you to believe It was a polite way of saying some British workers are lazy sods and do the bare minimum work they can get away with N