How does Veeky Forums deal with rust? Pic not mine

wash your damn car.

You don't buy an older Mazda.
Also, live down south, because fuck cold winters.

I rather deal with the snow and cold than with US southern niggers

>t. nigger who lives in Northern Ontario

You can undercoat it with rubber. Also wax it. If you already have rust then you are fighting a losing battle.

by not buying ferd

Is that your cousin?

I get my cars krowned to prevent rusting. Doing that or coating the whole car with WD40 annually will prevent the salt water from eating the car.

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For you or the car?

sell it and make it someone elses problem

this these things are not safe family

Yeah because Chevys don't rust

Just more weight reduction so I let that bitch go

>he doesn't know about the dump bed option

at least that ain't structural, rockers on this taurus are completely gone, along with anything else outside of the floor pan. Cocksuckers at ford thought it was a great idea to put plastic panels that hold dirt and salt right under the rockers.

The thing is 17 years old and was born in the salt belt, so I suppose I can't be too angry, but I am.

A challenger appears.

>How does Veeky Forums deal with rust?

Too much work, i'm going to scrap it or keep it for parts

>Cut it out with an angle grinder and cutting disk
>cut a replacement piece out of 2mm sheet
>beat it until it vaguely resembles the old piece
>tack the new piece in place
>cut it out again and beat it a bit more so it resemble the old piece a bit more
>repeat until acceptable
>slowly weld in a little at a time so you don't warp and fuck the steel
>grind welds flush
>body filler in all of your fuck ups because you can't weld for shit
>shit tier run infested paint over affected area with no attempt to blend.

wax it like it's a porn star

my 00 shitbox has a completely galvanized body, they only stopped doing that because rust is the friend of every car manufacturer.

This method works if you live at an apartment or house.

I have great success by using a pump sprayer. One of those 2 gallon ones with water filled up from inside the house. I put it in the car when I drive to work. After I park at work, I knock off the big chunks of ice snow. This reduces the amount of stuff the spray has to remove. Then I take out the pump sprayer and spray off the slush sticking to the bottom of the car. I walk around the car several times and the bottle is empty after several passes around the car. I don't keep spraying on just one section because that wastes warm water. I let the dripping action carry off the salty water so by the time I come back on the next pass, a lot of the salt has dripped off from the previous spray.

When done, I open up the sprayer so it is not airtight and set it in the car. Now the car has been cleaned off and can sit in the parking lot for 8 hours.

After work, I drive home. I once again knock off the slush sticking to the bottom. I refill the pump sprayer with hot water and rinse the car off if the water hose is frozen. After rinsing, I toss some salt on the driveway so that the rinse water doesn't freeze up. I refill the pump sprayer with water and set it inside the house to warm up from the ambient heat. I'll use that water when I drive back to work the next day.

Anyone give their undercarriage an oil bath?

Apparently it helps prevent rust at the cost of making everything underneath goopy and ugly.

I've been told that tarring is the best rust protection

Just get a new bed. It'll be substantially cheaper.
>Good luck finding a rust free bed

i redid all of my fender with galvanized on my 03 taurus

i meant the rocker wtf

>wash your car in -20 C
Sure, let me just rub some brine in there

Prevent it while preventable, weld new metal in when gone too far.

I know Porsche still does it, and it was always one of Audi's big selling points as well.

Cover it up with $49 ebay flares

I don't know, there isn't anything to weld to really. Everything below the door sill is gone over to that one piece of 1/4 metal that comes down vertically where the brake lines clip on to. That vertical section is still there, but it's getting squishy and no good metal under it. If this wasn't an inspection state, I'd just beat the piss out of it until it croaks, but right now I'll probably have to scarp it.

You got the right idea m8

>its ANOTHER user posts his flat chested ugly sister posing with his rusty Chrysler truck thread

There are diy ways that can patch it up without having to weld it. It wont look nice, but works just as well. You could use fiberglass, bondo, or patch a hole with autobody adhesive and some sheet metal. Solder is mostly for restoring classics

this

MN here, doing at home shitty welds. Can provide pics if you'd like. Plan is to weld, Bondo, then paint. It's not the easiest way to solve it but it should last

pls post pics

Didn't take many preliminary pics but here's a few. Trunk

Left side before welding. Bear with me, slow internet

I actually did something similar for some non-visible rust holes on my car, but I used silicone around the weld to seal the gaps around the weld after painting.

This is where I'm currently at. I'm oxy-acetalene welding btw, and not especially well I'm sure so don't mind that

Yeah the work I did in my trunk was mostly tac welding, then silicone is the goopy stuff around the edges. It's only white because I didn't have any other spray paint to cover it up

approx how many hours of labour would it take to cover those holes (no painting)?

It is taking me a lot longer than I thought, it took about 3 hours to do this . But that was the harder, angled part, and mig/Tig welding is way faster from what I've heard

Paint is better than no paint, but paint won't stay on silicone. That's why I painted first then used silicone, so the paint wouldn't flake off and allow moisture to get at the metal near the edge of the silicone.

I used paintable silicone caulk, but I guess we'll see if it works as well as the label says

wassat. E36?

Probably better than the GE 100% silicone I used which is quite soft and flexible. The GE stuff is good, adheres well to clean surfaces and doesn't degrade badly in direct sun outdoors (which the patches I made won't even be enduring all the time) though rattlecan paint cracks and flakes due to the flexibility.

>That older Mazda feel

As of yet she still holds together, but the rust never tires.

Why is it that the dealers or manufactures do not undercoat the cars before selling them? They could offer a "winter" package with winter tires and a undercoat spray and make a shit load of money.

as opposed to actually letting it rot so the consumer has to buy a new car in however many years? Use some critical thinking next time lad

>why don't (((dealers))) or (((manufacturers))) do something for the consumer in order to make the consumable goods that they make a living off selling last longer?

Take a guess.

Undercoat eventually chips off. Once bare metal is exposed due to a paint chip the salt water rapidly corrodes the metal. Manufactures do plenty. Only other option is to use a material other than steel, like fiberglass. Blame the state for salting the roads.

>silicone around the weld

You know there are special adhesives, fillers and sealants for that. Regular household silicone is really acidic and will make it rust again in no time.

they stopped building reliable cars right around 2002~, they realized ppl driving there cars for 500k without needed any repair other some maintenance isnt good business. And the choice was correct, german automakers are bringing in bigger profits than ever.
>tfw still driving audi
>next will be audi
>fucking germanjews fucking me in the ass

Is putting expanding foam in big rust gaps to fill a really bad thing?

yes

It will trap water and make it rust faster. Not really a permanent fix.

Except the average age of cars on the road right now is older than ever

yep, 318i touring

Are you fucking blind? The rockers are gone on the Cavalier

Wire brush, Fertan, rust protection paint and rust protection grease on smaller spots.

Bigger rust holes you say? Run.

>How does Veeky Forums deal with rust?
During the salt season, I wash it off daily with a water hose. On the first walk around the car, I use a gentle mist spray at first on the undersides to let the hot things cool down gently. After that, I use a stronger spray on the next walk around. I rinse the car from top to bottom because the whole car is covered with salt slush thrown up by other cars.

I don’t. I live in California.
>no humidity
>no snow
>no salted roads
>minimal rainfall
However, our used cars are still shit because half of them have been totaled by our shitty drivers.