schonbacher

poke it with a screw driver he said it wont be to bad!!

ford and there wisdon of putting some stickin stone chip shit on the sills, proper moisture trap and the carpeted rear arch liners!

my 2001 focus due mot on monday!












get new sill skin on monday .passenger side ok apart from rear arch surface rust. both inner rear arches have exactly the same rust behind the arch liners.

Chopshop85

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Lol you want to try poking at a 1988 rs turbo! Where the drains are inbetween the panels and Ford used soggy sponge as sound deadening :cry

james kiely

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i think ford designed them to rust

schonbacher

im a ford man through and through and love my focus but its piss poor really

my mate has a 51 plate berlingo it has no rot at all even with paint missing around arches.

mp1

Never seen a focus rust like that before

kosienutter

Holy shitte bud. Thought my taxi was bad when mine went. Good on you for keeping it on the road

st220kyle

I remember phoning up about a ka that was for sale before and asking if there was any rust on it, his reply was 'mate, they are made with rust already on them' lol

gjh

Bloody fords eh?? Good to see its getting sorted though, mine is beginning to look like this.

BM08

wow my old 98 civic with 140k was solid underneath, only slight little bubble on rear arch

schonbacher

perhaps i should have started a resto thread

got nearside rear arch finished today

Glenn_

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I love my fords but they fooking rust.The wifes focus has rusty arches.There sills on hers look ok.The first job I did to hers when we got it back and that was remove the rear inner arch sponges lol.

Mondi-DZK

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They have the best designers


Good to see it fixed mate.

schonbacher

my sills looked ok till we poked the bastard you could'nt see the rust it was hidden by the underseal spongy shit!



debating wether or not to refit the arch liners

schonbacher

we now have no frilly bits! haven't got finished pics yet but im assured it looks the tits

Davemurphy007

Don't know why but 5 door Focus' seem to rust REALLY badly, yet the 3 doors aren't bad.

Never seen the sills go on them though (yet), especially like that. I have a 3 door shell I'm restoring with 103k on it and thankfully all I've found is some light surface rust around the arches and some in the engine bay, easily cleaned out.

Glenn_

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Looks like your doing a good job.

schonbacher

what feckin rust well happy with the results

Glenn_

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That looks like a really good job.Are you a paint sprayer??

schonbacher

my best mate and his dad did it for me. They have had plenty of years restoring classic cars and repairing my old heaps lol , His dad did the welding ect and my mate did the paint. out of an aerosol aswell!

Wood5tock

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Fair play mate nice job, was shocked to see it was a 98 car

schonbacher

2001

Wood5tock

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DOH!... Well done for spotting my deliberate mistake

gjh

Hell of a transformation! Nice one!

Glenn_

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They have done a good job.Normaly silver is a nightmare to blend in.