Rust Free! ...Ahem

[afterburn 549]

I have noticed a lot of adds as of late saying "Rust free" !
AHEM!
I think a lot of you People proclaiming this maybe victims of the states you live in like In, Mi, NY, PA , OH, Vt, etc.
The salted roads in these states eat cars alive and perhaps these people have become acclimated with the disease ?
Let me EXPLAIN FOLKS !
Pay Atn.
"Rust free" will NOT show paint flaking off,with huge rust patches blatantly starring glaring back at ya!.
YIPES -
Rust free or near rust free will not have water stain rust marks seeping out from behind trim, or have holes in batt area.
It will not have orange rusty stains oozing out from rubber trim parts .
Rust holes in exhaust is not rust free.
Rust free will NOT have Suspension parts that look like they have been dipped in the ocean and lived with the Titanic !
Rust free is just that.
Rust free is rubbing your fingers under anything anywhere and not coming up with flakes of crap!
Some of what you folks claim rust free is ...just not true.
Now most these cars are old, some rust is expected, but "rust sick" is not rust free.
If you have a car that has EVER been driven on a salted road, it is NOT rust free.

[thamlin000]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

If you have a car that has EVER been driven on a salted road, it is NOT rust free.

Very true. And further, if your car have ever been driven near the ocean, it is not rust free either.

[Rick Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

If you have a car that has EVER been driven on a salted road, it is NOT rust free.

Not even if you hose down the undercarriage every time you get home? Asking as a future owner with no intention of locking the car up for the winter.

[pete3799]

No such thing around here.

[afterburn 549]

If you drive in salt there is no vaccine to stop the disease of rust.
Rinsing it off will help some, but now you have got the rust disease . It gets in under around everything and chloride is a slow death to steel.
Galvanized (zink) body panels will help a lot. However in all cases not all parts are not treated.
Its a slow death zink is sacrificial .

[NYNick]

Geez, my cars must be disintegrating before my very eyes, and I never even noticed!

[Macroni]

Depends upon model...... Pre-77 be concerned/ skeptical..... post-77 odd areas need to be reviewed such as window channels.... otherwise SC forward you can find rust free......

[afterburn 549]

Originally Posted by NYNick

Geez, my cars must be disintegrating before my very eyes, and I never even noticed!

Are you acclimated to the rust ?
I spent 40 years on the west coast (not bragging just follow along here )
I move back here my nephew tells me he buys near "rust free " cars..
He has a yard full of old cars
They are JUNK !!
Rusty , pusy, orange color oozing crap.
Holes, stains, holes amd more flakes then paint
Yet he tells me"near rust free" !
He has been assimilated
So maybe you have been assimilated?
No insult..just asking.

[NYNick]

Yeah right. I'm some kind of mutant East Coast Borg who has assimilated to tolerate a small amount of rust here and there. ACK ACK!!

Look, they're 30 or 40 year old German cars. How do you think they got here in the first place? Massive parachute drops? Uh no, they crossed a salt water ocean. So there goes that theory. Then there's the salt on the roads. How many states DON'T use salt? How many aren't near salt water, or have coastlines?

Add to that fact that after 40 years, what's the likelihood the car(s) in question were never driven on any coast? So you see, the population gets very, very small. You get my point.

But I get yours as well. It's an overused and abused term, like Hot Rod, Outlaw, Investment Grade and the like. Your nephew is just following the trend. It's all marketing BS.

I invite you to come take a look at my 37 year old, East Coast all it's life, 78. It's rust free.

[Mick_D]

Ah C'mon Nick, you know these guys are 'fully sorted' and if they say your car has rust, it has rust! You must have fleetingly thought of an ocean breeze while holding your car keys in your hand. Instant Orange!

[afterburn 549]

Whilest this thread went off track...blah blah blah
You may have a rust free car,,,,,IDK, and IDC and good for you.!
But my point to the validity of post with picks of superposed rust free cars is and could be a joke thread.
That is my point.
Fwd YO ! to the Calvary .

[Ronnie's.930]

If a Northerner discovers that he has "orange color oozing crap" issuing forth from various orifices, do you guys think it is due to road-salt exposure?!?!?!

[afterburn 549]

And the crowd roars YES !

[nota]

fiat invented rust and licensed it to karman

karman built the vw-porsche 914 you are hunting for
914's all rust

btw rust is alive and hard to kill
that is why desert cars donot rust
nothing grows in a desert inc rust
but take a car out of a desert area
and they quickly rust

[Mick_D]

Rust isn't alive. It's an oxide. Product of a chemical reaction.
Specifically, it's an oxide "created by the redox reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. "

( or maybe the reaction to someone holding a set of Porsche car keys while thinking of the ocean, but this hasn't been scientifically proven )

What's in a desert? not a lotta air moisture. Gotta have all the ingredients or you won't get cake.



Here, read up on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust

Originally Posted by nota

fiat invented rust and licensed it to karman

karman built the vw-porsche 914 you are hunting for
914's all rust

btw rust is alive and hard to kill
that is why desert cars donot rust
nothing grows in a desert inc rust
but take a car out of a desert area
and they quickly rust

[afterburn 549]

Chloride is the answer to the question like I said B4.
It will eat through steel pretty EZ

[afterburn 549]

Unless the car is on the moon I am pretty sure we have most the ingredients here to help catapult or catalyze the disaster.
Salted roads are quite perfect .

[Mick_D]

glad you have ALL the answers.

[afterburn 549]

On point here-
Selling a car labled "Rust free" ! This obviously means different things to different folks (no matter how the rust is-was generated.)
I know for sure, the rust should be hard to find, not glaring at me!

[McLovin]

They probably don't mean to imply that the car is free from any rust, but rather that all of the rust that is present is provided free of charge.