A&Q about 350Z
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Starting a thread for spots that MK2s that of course don't rust, rust. Handy for anyone buying a car or thinking of restoring theirs.
1) Petrol cap. Muck gets stuck around the filler cap and rusts the inner arch out, and can eventually go through the rear quarter.
2) Tailgate. Along the bottom edge and where the window seal is generally.
3) A pillar meeting the inner wing - above the top door hinge, there's a section of box that goes towards the front of the car down the inside of the inner wing. You can't see it from underneath, but if it's gone through to the rain tray, it's going to be bad. If it's not got that far, you've got to take the wing off to look. Both my MK2s had rust here (one really horribly, to the point that I'm glad scallies tried to nick it and wrote it off).
4) Door bottoms. Either on the outside, or the area where the door skin is folded over the door frame. Door frames tend to get a bit scabby, but not catastrophically.
5) Not a rust trap as such, but most MK2s have been broken into and the door tends to be scabby around the handle.
Anyone got any others?
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arches! they fold under and can trap water and muck there, if they not rusted-fill the fold with silicone sealer-stops water and muck resting there.
boot door! next to the washer jet housing. im assuming that water leaks somewhere-ither from the rear windscreen seal ir maybe the rear p*sser system somewhere. this has happened on both my mk's.
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Bottom edge of the windscreen
Battery tray.
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battery tray.
Always and take the battery out to check, holes lurk underneath!
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Look under the car for rust or indentations where the car has been carelessly jacked up before without using the propper jacking points. Worth checking the jacking points aswell for rust from the numerous times it's been jacked up in it's lifetime.
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Under the arch trims and side trims.
Also around the door strips by any corners that join to arches.
Sometimes around the top of the windscreen.
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the car
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Aye. Washer hole on the tailgate is a regular, as are any of the numberplate and plinth mounting screw holes on the tailgate.
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Where the rear quarter meets the rear panel, by the rear towing eye - check both sides
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The hole with the rubber bung in it where the windscreen wipers have been converted from left to right hand drive. Creates a lovely little pond whenever it rains and goes all bubbly with rust in no time.
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where the rear beam mounts to rear of car
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on 3 door cars only: under the seals on the rear side windows. Loads of water gets trapped here-next time you wash your car, lift up the seal with your finger and slide it along, loads of it will come out.
sunroof: the channel that runs around the inner aperture aswell as the drainage channels
also worth lifting up the carpet in the boot and under the rear seats, if water has been stood you'll get lovely little rust patches (though this isn't golf specific)
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The screw holes for the number plate lights rust pretty badly.