Glad there was a good outcome to all of this. Like I said with my brothers case, you just needed to talk to the right person. I actually need to go see someone about my Mk6 Golf. Where the door rubber ends on the rear doors they are sharp and have rubbed the paint away to bare metal!

I'm sure Ford also had an corrosion warrantee back in the day, too, albeit, a shorter time frame. I remember having paperwork from a ford dealer with an old RS2000 which when 3 years old, if I remember correctly, had a new bootlid and NSR arch replaced under this.