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Originally Posted by DylanFRS
It's not that it is "totaled", it is more of a worry of things to come. I figured when I posted this that I would get plenty of the "86-can-do-no-wrong"ers on here. Bubbly paint rust on a car after 3 years is pretty unacceptable in my opinion but we are all entitled to our own opinions.  |
Metal rusts, this is an indisputable fact of nature so welcome to reality. The part in question is a light tin strip with hardly any paint that has the sole function of holding a piece of rubber in place. It is not a body panel or any other form of structural component and the fact it has a rust spot on it is meaningless. You are presenting as if your fender is going to fall off at any second when the reality is not even close.
I took a huge stone hit to my fender 2 weeks after I got the car and decided as an experiment to leave it bare. After two years and two very salty Ontario winters it is just now starting to develop a slight coating of surface rust.
These are not 1980s Dodge Omnis that rusted out in a year if you passed through a sprinkler and one spot on a cheap sub, sub, sub component is not an indication of "things to come".
Come back and show us when your rocker panel or wheel well edges start bubbling and maybe you will get some sympathy.