Never store your car away when snow and salt are on the roads
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Never store your car away when snow and salt are on the roads
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Re: Never store your car away when snow and salt are on the roads
one word sums this up i think
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Re: Never store your car away when snow and salt are on the roads
That's some hardcore rust, don't see the point in hiding away your car For months just for a bit of ice/snow.
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The seals went on the turbo so I could not use it and had to get another car to get to work so it has just sat there, for a year or three now. I did give it a good power wash but still lots of salt on it
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Leakie Tbar
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Ive seen this alot on transits and audi
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Wowsers!
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Thats gotta be some kind of rust record?
never seen a set of discs go so badly down the middle like before. 
never seen a set of discs go so badly down the middle like before.
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What brand of discs? So I can avoid 
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Do you really think a couple of months would have done that much damage to the brake discs? LOL
Now i would realy hate tosee what the underside of your car is like if it managed to eat through those discs in a couple of months. Do you still have a floor in your car LOL
Now i would realy hate tosee what the underside of your car is like if it managed to eat through those discs in a couple of months.
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It was more that months, 3 years in fact but still would never think rust would do this to a disk and just because of the salt from the roads
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That's why when storing car for long periods of time (year+) you are meant to wrap the discs up in a plastic sheets so they are air tight. Leaving wheels off (shags they tyres up) and on axel stands. 
(year+) you are meant to wrap the discs up in a plastic sheets so they are air tight. Leaving wheels off (shags they tyres up) and on axel stands. Re: Never store your car away when snow and salt are on the roads
bobhatton wrote:
...LoL looks a bit like the front discs on my ST205 when I bought it! Half the fins fell out them when I got it up on the ramps and started tapping away looking for stuff to service.In 3 years it's not
that surprising. At least at the end of the day it's just discs, your coilies faired pretty good by the looks of it to me!Just mind corrosion is usually just steel returning back to it's natural state, it will go that way regardless.
That's why when storing car for long periods of time
...I never heard of wrapping discs before but maybe true. If you went to that effort just take them off, wash them and spray them up with the oily wax like they come with out the box originally anyway (I forget the name of the aerosol -used to use it at work). You can leave a car on tyres for extended times, I just roll the car back and forwards a foot or so every now and again -saves getting flat spots. Tyres can perish anyway whether they're filled and loaded or deflated and removed....have you tried hitting those discs with a hammer yet. Just for laughs to see just how much rust falls out them for shits and giggles? Would be interesting to see a disc completely split in half.