My Saturday Rant

[Gren_T]

You may want to check the alpine roof seals these are notorious for leaking, the water runs down the panel then under the stupid rubber boot floor liner and never evaporates, you can't tell the floor is wet because of the stupid rubber liner.!

yours look ok mine had almost completely separated after I put a couple of 50kg bags of pony nuts on it, I sorted the leaking seal with "capt tolly's creeping crack cure".. top stuff.!

At least your disco keeps the bankers from playing with your cash.

regards

Gren

 

[A.J.M]

That boot floor shot is what many UK owner's face.
Which is an MOT fail and 9 out of 10 times see's the car scrapped.
We put down loads of salt and grit, which does nothing but rust older cars and even newer ones as well. My 04 LR3 has surface rust on it's chassis as well. Will be getting cleaned and treated this summer though to stop it and protect the metal work.

 

[redneck44]

That boot floor shot is what many UK owner's face.
Which is an MOT fail and 9 out of 10 times see's the car scrapped.
We put down loads of salt and grit, which does nothing but rust older cars and even newer ones as well. My 04 LR3 has surface rust on it's chassis as well. Will be getting cleaned and treated this summer though to stop it and protect the metal work.

Slight correction, "which does nothing but rust old cars" should read "which does nothing but rust old land rovers" I've had plenty of old cars over here, many far far older than my Disco which were in great condition.

 

[LR Max]

I had a Subaru STi that lived up in Philly. Garage queen and super low mileage. Still had corrosion on the suspension. I don't think it ever got driven in the snow/ice.

The salt and all that nonsense attacks everything.

 

[A.J.M]

Slight correction, "which does nothing but rust old cars" should read "which does nothing but rust old land rovers" I've had plenty of old cars over here, many far far older than my Disco which were in great condition.

Fine.
Most, but not all. Better? lol.
There are plenty of younger car's that can rust just as well. Ford Ka and early 00 merc's spring to mind.
P38's and mk1 freelander's don't tend to suffer badly from it, so if you do see a rusty one. You can pass on it as there will be plenty more available.

However, good fortune on finding a replacement boot floor. Will you be replacing it yourself or getting someone to do it for you?

 

[mowerman]

mine looked like this...







And mine leaked from here:-



No sunroofs, no water from safari windows, it just got into this beam somewhere, ran to the back, ran down and made the floor wet, and the sound proofing did the rest.



!0 days of grinding, cutting plating welding and painting resulted in this:-



The whole lot was then finished in black Hammerite, should last a good few years now.
And I didnt even have sunroofs! (I have since fitted them)