Hi all.

Went and had a butchers at a 2003 2.0 Focus ESP estate yesterday which has only 33k miles, FFSH and one owner.

Both of the rear arches have the tiniest amount of rust appearing where the sill bends round into the wheel arch just below the spongy arch inner.

Would this be difficult or expensive to sort?

Cheers

Clarkie

 

Na just sand them down,get rid of the rust treat the bare metal or if the rust is still there with hammerite kurust then re paint.I did this to my wifes 53 reg focus a few months back.

 

No mate as long as its just a few spots and the rust has not got into the metal then just sand it back primmer it and paint.

 

Thanks for your help chaps!

 

Im happy to help.If it really rusty the only way to get rid of the rust completely is to chop the rust out but i cant see it been that bad onm this car.

 

Cheers Glenn.

The rust is sooooo tiny, I was just thinking ahead that's all.

Not sure that I'm having the motor anyway now!!

Ever driven a MK 2 Mondeo? Do they drive as well as a MK 3?

 

Clarkie, I owned a fair few mk2s and thought they drive ok for the age of them, Not much of a difference tbh, I still cant believe how cars of these ages are rusting already, pretty poor show

 

Ford has a 10 year perforation warranty so a few bubbles is nothing. There are KA's that rotted through in 2 or 3 years let alone 10