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[LFF64]

Keep me in mind Wayne when you are thinking of selling it I want an estate  and  I still have that fob of yours 
 Your not going to change the stereo though are you if your going to sell it  :question

[Wayne]

yes mate, i will put the factory fitted stereo back in to it, i only just bought me Alpine unit, lol

[NiallyV6CDX]

look at it, its everywhere! Grrrrrrrrrr

bloody rust!







and now the bloody plastic trim part on the rear drivers side passenger door!

had this changed by VX before, then within 10 months, its back to this again!
why does it keep coming away?

 

 never seen a miggy rust like that.. you must be using them like submarines

Easy for you to say! We get as much rain here in a month as you do in year!
Also our roads are covered in mud and crap which builds up in the arch lips and holds the water, accelerating the rusting process futher :-/

[cem_devecioglu]

look at it, its everywhere! Grrrrrrrrrr

bloody rust!







and now the bloody plastic trim part on the rear drivers side passenger door!

had this changed by VX before, then within 10 months, its back to this again!
why does it keep coming away?

 

 never seen a miggy rust like that.. you must be using them like submarines

Easy for you to say! We get as much rain here in a month as you do in year!
Also our roads are covered in mud and crap which builds up in the arch lips and holds the water, accelerating the rusting process futher :-/

yep.. for this reason I say "submarines"..

[Wayne]

no submarines!!!  just normal use 

[Pitchfork]

no submarines!!!  just normal use 

I tried to use mine as a submarine but it just stopped when the water got too deep!

[mathewst]

Hmmm don't understand why so much rust.
Mine rusted a little but only on the places where the previous owner damaged the colour (completely scraped it off) and never repaired it. But it is 1999 facelift model so I guess facelift are better protected though

[TheBoy]

a) our roads are poor
b) the amount of salt the councils use in winter (salt the roads even if there is a hint that there may be ice)
c) Vauxhalls from that era do not appear to have the best anticorrosion
d) UK owners tend to never garage their cars, and use car washes rather than be kind to the car.

[DC]

Sorry to say, but this sort of rust is in biggest part a fault of owner(s). Yes, Omegas and Vauxhalls in general rust more than some other cars from the same era, but once you see a spot of rust somewhere you should act and not let it get to the stage like in these pictures. It is enough to inspect a car once a year and fix any spots of rust while they are still only minor and when you can easily do it yourself

[bigdods]

My old mini facelift (150k) did a fair bit of rusting on the door tops , bottoms, wheelarches and other places.

The replacement facelift is faring better, 120k miles now and only rusting on one wheelarch.

Quite a few odd spots of rust on the body, tiny circles (a few mm) but with spiders web of rust under the surface. I thought stonechips but there is one on the back of the bootlid. Upside is they arent getting any worse.

Oh and the sunroof surround is rusted all over (under the paint) but thats normal they all do that I think.