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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Diamond Black Geezer on 18 October 2016, 15:57:11
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Just further to another thread, here's an interesting thread showing a (worryingly rusty, given its youth) Monaro which has been given some welding...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1265868&i=120
Nice job, too. But it's interesting when comparing similarities / differences between the two hemisphere's version of Omega/Commodore :)
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The Aussies don't apply any corrosion protection as such and certainly nowhere near the amount we have on our cars.
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I was always a bit concerned at the levels of corrosion prevention applied by Holden to these cars...
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Looked pretty bad , but looks like a good repair to me not that I know anything about welding etc.
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Indeed!
It's certainly something for anyone to bear in mind for anyone used to their Euro-spec cars. I know for a fact having been behind the plastic sill cover recently, that the corrosion levels of my 187k, 20 year-old Omega isn't a tenth of that car. At the most that's 2004? And that thread's a year old, so that's about a ten year old machine, realistically. Ouch. :o
Not dissimilar to when Lotus took an old jigsaw to the arches of the Carlton, and painted them in brine before fitting the bodykits to LCs...
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Sounds like Lotus on a good day, that. :D
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Who's wondering how bad the rot is under their sill covers ::) Time to have a peek :-X
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Just further to another thread, here's an interesting thread showing a (worryingly rusty, given its youth) Monaro which has been given some welding...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1265868&i=120
Nice job, too. But it's interesting when comparing similarities / differences between the two hemisphere's version of Omega/Commodore :)
That`s one of the reasons I didn`t go for one when looking for a replacement for the Omega.
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Who's wondering how bad the rot is under their sill covers ::) Time to have a peek :-X
Well the project has recently been visited by Daz, his Welder and two replacement sills....
The other two cars are keeping there sill covers on until next year!!!
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Who's wondering how bad the rot is under their sill covers ::) Time to have a peek :-X
I was and thankfully, hardly anything...
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=137501.0