Free Spirit
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While under my car to try to fix a broken bolt I noticed a large amount of rust for a 2017. Differential and rear subframe have surface/flaking rust. Angle that holes the evap below the spare tire well is at the point where it crumbles to ashes if you touch or push on it, rear bumper brace and body of the car is rusted bad. Like thick layers of rust flaking off rusty easily 1/16 in thick or thicker layers coming off. Everything else has surface rust. Already replaced the drive shit and exhaust which removed a lot of the visible rust but there's still a ton more. Any tips? Obviously I can't fix the bracket for the evap since the rust in in-between the angle and body so without cutting it off fully it'll be stuck but it's the bottom of the tire well, if it rusts out that's fine I'll cut it out later and weld in a new piece of sheet metal. My biggest concerns are the differential (appears to be common and I can't find anyone who ever had an issue from the rust besides it looks bad) and the res bumper. It was raining while I was under the car and I could watch the water poor down exactly where it was several rusted so I assume during winter the salter water is dripping down and sitting there. How do I fix or prevent this?
Take it for an undercoating?
Remove the bumper and use a wire wheel to break off any loose rust and por15? Or any other coating? Or just ignore it drive the car and forget about it. It's a 2017 with 62k miles (more issues than it's worth tbh. Paid 27.5k 2 years ago at 52k miles and I've probably spent well over 10k in parts and labor fixing all the issues as they lol up. Not worth it to me at this point to sell it at a loss so I'll be keeping it for awhile I think
Take it for an undercoating?
Remove the bumper and use a wire wheel to break off any loose rust and por15? Or any other coating? Or just ignore it drive the car and forget about it. It's a 2017 with 62k miles (more issues than it's worth tbh. Paid 27.5k 2 years ago at 52k miles and I've probably spent well over 10k in parts and labor fixing all the issues as they lol up. Not worth it to me at this point to sell it at a loss so I'll be keeping it for awhile I think
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