I live in Greater Vancouver, BC on the west coast of Canada. Lots of
rain and humidity here in the winter times, sunny and quite dry June-
Sept. We don't get much snow, but the city crews salt the roads
regularly in the winter given all our hills and chances of heavy
frost. So I wouldn't say we're in the rust belt like eastern/central
Canada or the US but salt is present. I'll post some pics shortly.
Thanks for the feedback on the rust proofing steps. My previous car
was a 1973 VW Type III Fastback. It rusted out around the headlights
and fenders and I had to sell it because I couldn't keep up with
trying to slow rust down. Guess it's inevitable. So I'm kinda anal
about rust. I had that car for about 16 years until 1990. As you can
guess, I tend to keep my stuff for a long time.
Velcro! That stuff holds my life together.
-Tony
On Aug 24, 5:20 pm, Jim Behning
<jimbehn...@doesthisblockpork.mindspring.com> wrote:
> My 2003 had so much cosmoline or whatever that gooey stuff was that I
> did not worry about it. You could drill the holes, paint them, slather
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> problems. I sold my 19 year old Rabbit and it had no rust issues. The
> joys of not living in the rust belt.
Jim Behning - 28 Aug 2007 03:49 GMT
I had a 66 beetle with flopping fenders. The running board sorrt of
held them together but they were not so well attached either. My
pickup celebrates its 20th birthday soon. Well it was born over 20
years ago. Salt is rare in Atlanta which is good otherwise that pickup
would be history.
>I live in Greater Vancouver, BC on the west coast of Canada. Lots of
>rain and humidity here in the winter times, sunny and quite dry June-
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>> problems. I sold my 19 year old Rabbit and it had no rust issues. The
>> joys of not living in the rust belt.