Bean Bandits Levin 'Globetrotter'

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(02-25-2015 10:57 PM)banpei Wrote:  You may consider yourself lucky with that little amount of rust!

50% is luck, the rest is the fact that I chose to buy the right one. First owner had the car 'cavity waxoiled' (? or whatever it's called) and full under sealed (stone chip protected) by the local distributor. So the car never drove beforehand
If it wasn't for that it would be way worse - I do have a few very small spots though. One on the soon roof panel ˜5x3mm (not rusted through thoug), a line on the rear seam where the quarterpanel wraps around the back and joins the rear panel. A small spot underneath the break distribution block maybe 10mm diameter - haven't removed the paint there yet so not sure how deep it goes. The spare wheel well has some surface rust, as the hatch is not 100% water tight around one edge of the glass. Last but not least I had rust on the rear part of the sills (both sides about 50mm starting from the rear edge) and the adjoing part of the fender due to the stupid idea of Toyota to fit a plastic trim to the edge of the fender that brillinatly traps water and in their wisdom they decided to strenghten the back of the trim with untreated metal
Anyway, meanwhile I took care of that error, so all is good
Got a slightly damaged carbon sunroof somewhere (can be fixed) - it flew off on the test drive due to me not having the proper threaded screws to fit it properly (we live and learn), that will take care of that tiny spot and the other two spots will be treated and or replaced pending on severity - still hope to get it all sodablasted or similar.

Like I mentioned a few post earlier I planed on a small composite (ad)venture but for now this is going to be postponed so I can focus on other more pressing areas first - maybe I'll pick the plan up again in 2016 (especially my front bumper could use a replacment, of the 12 spots securing it to the rest of the car about 4 are still operational - thank you lovely BMW driver from the Delhaize parking lot in Brussels.
Getting carried away here - so off to bed and back to stripping tomorrow