From: Dan----.- on 25 Sep 2009 21:23 http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11269223&page=1 Oh well I shouldn't be surprised our Territory was suffering with metal cancer as well until it had a prang. -- Regards Dan
From: Albm&ctd on 26 Sep 2009 02:16 In article <0046f0e8$0$2905$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, HsvtourerR8PhantomM6(a)car.com says... > http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11269223&page=1 > > Oh well I shouldn't be surprised our Territory was suffering with metal > cancer as well until it had a prang. > According to what I've read the old '85 123 280e merc we picked up for a pittance has 36 kg of paint and protective products. They got serious about rust in 1981.. but the 123 series ended in '85. The shitbox '90 Pintara is sort of rust proofed in the structural areas that matter. Ford might be using Lada rust proofing :-) Al -- I don't take sides. It's more fun to insult everyone. http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html
From: user on 26 Sep 2009 05:34 Albm&ctd wrote: > In article <0046f0e8$0$2905$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > HsvtourerR8PhantomM6(a)car.com says... >> http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11269223&page=1 >> >> Oh well I shouldn't be surprised our Territory was suffering with metal >> cancer as well until it had a prang. >> > According to what I've read the old '85 123 280e merc we picked up for a > pittance has 36 kg of paint and protective products. They got serious about rust > in 1981.. but the 123 series ended in '85. > The shitbox '90 Pintara is sort of rust proofed in the structural areas that > matter. Ford might be using Lada rust proofing :-) > > Al The lada's I saw in the hands of RUskies were delivered covered in a sorta brown/yellowish varnish stuff of the line , trouble was you wash it off and they rust in retaliation
From: Noddy on 26 Sep 2009 19:53 "Dan----.-" <HsvtourerR8PhantomM6(a)car.com> wrote in message news:0046f0e8$0$2905$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11269223&page=1 > > Oh well I shouldn't be surprised our Territory was suffering with metal > cancer as well until it had a prang. Typical Ford. All the "talk" from the CEO about "listening to the complaints of Territory buyers" and "doing something about it" is just standard bullshit as usual. If & when they disappear up their own arseholes they'll have no one but themselves to blame. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 26 Sep 2009 19:54
"the_dawggie" <the_dawggie(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:80c717fd-a403-4f49-846e-3d5df3ef4486(a)x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > I've got a 20 year old 'lux which has no rust. It has rust. You just haven't found it yet. -- Regards, Noddy. |