Where do these cars rust?

[CoryM]

Originally Posted by devinlamothe

Sorry to bump this thread but I wanted to report on my car ...

I noticed some surface rust under the rocker panels (my car doesn't have the plastic piece to protect it) and also in the "lip" infront of the rear tires. It looks like just surface for now so I'm going to use solvent/sand/prime and use that truck bed liner stuff that CTScott used to coat the wheel wells to prevent that from happening.

It makes me cry a little inside to see that disease on a car that runs great.

Reports like this are exactly what I (we?) are looking for. So we can keep an eye on the trouble spots and deal with them early, or prevent them from happening. Thanks, and sorry for your rust.

Be careful with the bedliner. Most bedliners/gravel-guards are not rust inhibitors. Once the moisture gets in behind it gets ugly very fast. I think you are best off cleaning the rusty areas, priming, and painting with rust preventive materials. Then coating the areas with the oil/grease/wax of your choice as was mentioned.

I had a 1980 camaro which were known to rust badly. When I removed the subframe to paint it, I realized it must have had an oil leak from day one. 25yrs later, the bare steel subframe was spotless and shiny in the area under the oil sludge. Not even a weeks worth of surface rust on it. Just shows how well oil works.