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Dave Hart
Tinkerer
Not Australia
UZZ32

Posts: 50
Reg: 08-2005

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 06:31 pm, by:  Dave Hart (Davyboy) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Is there any history of rust prone areas on our beloved Soarers?
Can't see any signs on mine and mines as old as they get.
I suppose if you have water getting past the seals, I'm thinking windscreen or boot, and it's left, then you could end up with rust. Other than that and with an engine that can go for just about forever we should be able to keep these beauties on the road for as long as we want.
Shane McInnes
TryHard
NSW
TT

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 07:22 pm, by:  Shane McInnes (Soarin_tt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Our cars dont rust mate ;)... its a galvanised metal so no rust, unless you get in a accident and dont get it fixed.
Don Bagnall
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New Zealand
1991 UZZ30 GT4.0 V8

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 07:34 pm, by:  Don Bagnall (Baggs) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dave, I've never seen OR heard of a rusty 30 series Soarer, due to the galvanised panels like Shane says.

Having said that, the guy that owned ours had a "Thing" about rust (Probably from owning Holdens!), and went nuts with body "Wax", and had it sprayed into EVERY possible cavity
Graham Dollisson
TryHard
QLD
GT-TL

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 08:43 pm, by:  Graham Dollisson (Alloyvee) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Don.You wouldn't want to bend over in front of that guy!!
Don Bagnall
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New Zealand
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 08:50 pm, by:  Don Bagnall (Baggs) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ewwwwwww!
Don Bagnall
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New Zealand
1991 UZZ30 GT4.0 V8

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 09:06 pm, by:  Don Bagnall (Baggs) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Actually Dave, thinking about your post, I have NO intention of EVER selling our Soarer (Unless I buy a minty Ltd with ALL the options), so I'm quite happy to spend wads of loot on whatever it needs, which at the mo, is pretty much zilch.

And the way I look at it, these things have lasted VERY well for 14 years with possibly/probably indifferent owners, with only relatively minor problems, so I would expect with loving, caring, fastidious(ish) owners like us lot, they will last forever .

Now all I gotta do is convince Karen that she NEEDS a Soarer instead of her "Bouncing Beer Can", aka 95 RAV4 3 door, which she is overly fond of, and insists on waxing with my Meguires carnuba wax (sniff) at LEAST once a month!

Morgan Cross
DieHard
Victoria
Soarer TT

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 09:08 pm, by:  Morgan Cross (Morgan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Don Bagnall wrote on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 08:50 pm:

Ewwwwwww!


Don, would this be a perfect example of how you love threads getting side tracked? haha.

It's a pissa
Don Bagnall
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New Zealand
1991 UZZ30 GT4.0 V8

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 09:21 pm, by:  Don Bagnall (Baggs) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Exactly Morgs . As long as someone's question, statement, Blah.....whatever gets answered EVENTUALLY, I thing it makes life much groovier

"Groovier" ,God, that sounds Soooo.......60's
Jose-Antonio Castillo
TryHard
NSW
Black/Black JZZ30 VVTi

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 09:24 pm, by:  Jose-Antonio Castillo (Ahh_soarer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've seen one that had rust... very slight rust but still noticed it. Only one Soarer though so I don't know how well it was taken care of... or lack thereof.
Don Bagnall
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New Zealand
1991 UZZ30 GT4.0 V8

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 09:28 pm, by:  Don Bagnall (Baggs) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah Jose, I spose if someone did a crap repair, and scraped through the galvanising, thereby exposing naked steel, you could have a bit of a problemo
Jovica Galovic
TryHard
SA
Work on car has begun car is in a million pieces, STATUS 01%

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Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 09:13 am, by:  Jovica Galovic (Gryphn) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

rust in a soarer no chance, i have a repaired section on my car and i made sure that it was done well, my car is a million pieces at the moment and no rust what so ever anywhere and i looked.
Il can safely say rust will never be an issue with a soarer, well mine anyway.

By the way does anyone know how many soarers came out of the factory per day , in the proccess of striping my car i have found that the QA proccess must have been very very stringent as almost anything big enough to have a signature or sticker had a OK initial on it plus other jp writing i mean my spoiler had a date of fitting inside plus an ok with what a belive a quick inital of the worker.
Perry Morgan
DieHard
Qld
UZZ32 ( V8 )

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Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 09:23 am, by:  Perry Morgan (Uzz32) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If you want to find rust in a soarer then remove the lil plastic cover that goes over the staple part that the door shuts onto on body of the car. You may get a nasty surprise if what I've seen on the cars at the wreckers is any indication.
Vinod Param
Tinkerer
Victoria
V8 UZZ21

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Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 12:01 pm, by:  Vinod Param (Vparam) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The door staple part and under the boot lid in some soarers (due to antenna mountings or previous owners closing boot on solid objects) are possible places.
Callum Finch
TryHard
WA
Soarer TT

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Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 03:56 pm, by:  Callum Finch (Sigeneat) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have a couple of deep paint chips which look like they go all the way to the surface, they are black looking (black car so it works) but theres no bubbling around them.. =P
Paul Irwin
Trader
NSW
GT-T (1JZ-GTE)

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Friday, November 25, 2005 - 11:28 pm, by:  Paul Irwin (Rival) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Callum Finch wrote on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 03:56 pm:

I have a couple of deep paint chips which look like they go all the way to the surface, they are black looking (black car so it works) but theres no bubbling around them.. =P






"black car so it works" hehe, funniest thing i have read all day.
Sam Schreck
TryHard
ACT
vvt-i JZZ31

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Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 10:33 am, by:  Sam Schreck (Schreck300) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Paul, you have by far the best/clearest headlights I've seen on a Soarer. You obviously take brilliant care of your machine.
Alan Chow
TryHard
Vic
TT

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Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 10:37 am, by:  Alan Chow (Kfchow) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

my brake lines were rusted a while ago but s&l reckon that the owner in japan drove it through salt covered snow or whatever.. *shrugs*
Daniel Czechowski
TryHard
Western Australia
Soarer GT-T

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 03:50 pm, by:  Daniel Czechowski (Dan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've just read this topic now...

I've got a bit of rust. One is on the driver's side door right under the window half way, litle rusty dot. Someone must have bumped it hard a while ago and scraped paint off it. Another one is (again) on the drivers side, when u open the door, right next to the metal bracket thingy that latches the door, bit rusty around there, strange since I cant see any sign of damage.
And last one is in the engine bay, on the very front of the left quarterpanel. Tiny bit of rust on the edge. Not sure how that got there neither...
Haydn Crandell
TryHard
NSW
TT 2.5

Posts: 262
Reg: 11-2005

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 04:54 pm, by:  Haydn Crandell (Haydn) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

get a bit off cutting compound on a rag dan and rub it off,take that dirty look off it anyway , then brush touch it,would imagine it is only surface rust?
Daniel Czechowski
TryHard
Western Australia
Soarer GT-T

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 06:02 pm, by:  Daniel Czechowski (Dan) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I might try that sometime actually. They do look like surface rust, not that there's a hole that it went through. But one seems like it's more serious though. I guess I'll see when I do it. I bought the car like that so...

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