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Hi Beav,
I have seen rust in the door checker. The rear upper strut mount is a real road dirt collector and these might rust out after 8 years in the salt belt. The emergency brake cable bracket on my car looks rusty and the tranny mount has some rust on it near the ends.
Body panels as stated above do not rust. The insides of my doors look brand new. Not bad for a 8 1/2 year old car!
They also put bees wax inside the frame. The service manual has a whole section on the rust proofing that was done:
Galvanized Sheet Metal Application
Cation Electrocoating
Sealer and adhesive application
Polyvinyl Chloride Aopplication
Anti Chip coatingHot wax application
Rust proof parts (Plastic side panels)
Anti-rust Wax Application(bottom of car)
It goes from page 11 to 38 in the SVXSM section 5-1. Everytime I look at this I realize how much money they must have lost to make these cars.
With the extensive rust proofing and elves, the car is more than "Priceless"
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