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    Quote Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post

    So no rust on the bottoms of your doors?
    No rust whatsoever on the bottoms of my doors. From what I understand, when you see rust on the surface, it means it's worse behind it. Like how the tip of an iceberg is only 5% of the iceberg.

    I will post photos tomorrow of where krown puts the plugs. I just have to go to work now, I do later shift eh.


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    i dont know if i should be thankful that we are not experiencing body rusting here in our area, but in exchange we have banged up suspensions and under chassis due to bad roads.

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    No rust on the bottom of the rear wheel arches or doors for me either, however I have seen a few fleet mirages with that exact same issue.

    I checked my own that’s been Krowned for 6 years every spring and it looks like they did drill the hole to spray the rear panels over the wheel, so perhaps that’s why I haven’t gotten any rust yet over the rear wheels.

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    On a side note though, I have discovered that the door seal adhesive is letting go on the bottom of my doors, probably a combination of the large amount of Krown fluid that sits there as well as age at this point.

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    The krown saved my doors and under the hood, but it can't save some spots. Like that driver's side chair bolt area has a bunch of surface rust. Same with the car jack has a bunch of surface rust from me going in and out of the car in the winter with slushy boots.

    Ah well, sheet metal on the doors is like-new.

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    The krown saved my doors and under the hood, but it can't save some spots. Like that driver's side chair bolt area has a bunch of surface rust. Same with the car jack has a bunch of surface rust from me going in and out of the car in the winter with slushy boots.

    Ah well, sheet metal on the doors is like-new.
    Are those leaves stuck in behind your fender?
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    Ah yes, that seat bolt, mine is also quite rusty at this point, although it doesn’t look too serious, just surface rust like you said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by javensbukan View Post
    On a side note though, I have discovered that the door seal adhesive is letting go on the bottom of my doors

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    I just checked on of the 2015's here. The weather stripping on the doors is just held on by little crappy clips that usually break when you try to remove them. There isn't any adhesive on there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by javensbukan View Post
    Ah yes, that seat bolt, mine is also quite rusty at this point, although it doesn’t look too serious, just surface rust like you said.
    Today I actually noticed a tear on the bottom cushion of the driver's seat.. only around 2 inches tear at this point. Rip is going door to door direction, along on the seam, in the middle of the seat.

    I might superglue the fabric right onto the cushion part of the seat. Before gets worse.

    New car stays new 1 day, before it's a used car.


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