Took the car to my body man yesterday. I was washing the car last week and found
rust on the top of my doors. Ok what was so special about that. It was under the weather strip around the top of the windows. Glad I found it early or it could have been expensive to fix. Lucky for me it only cost me $100 to have the tops all four doors sand blasted and primed, painted, and clear coated. Before the weather gets bad, pop off your weather strip on the top of the windows and check under it for bubbling or rust. This would be a good time for you to go around your car and touch up any stone chips and put a good coat of wax on before the winter salt eats at your car.

What a weird place for rust!

I just bought a 740, so I'll check mine.
Thanks for the tip.
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1989 740Ti 1986 240DL 1984 244GL

Whats Winter???????

Jason
Soutern Califronia

Winter is what we have here all year round. It's the opposite to summer which is one day of no rain we have here sometime between June - August, we don't know when, it's different every year, but we can tell by the frightening yellow thing in the sky and the fact our naturally blue skin suddenly goes red and hurts.
You should see the rust on my 740 GLT Estate. Ok it's 16 years old and spent most of its life trucking up and down farm tracks with a horse box and/or dead sheep in the back of it. The bonnet and the tailgate remain rust free (obviously) but the rest looks like painted bubble gum. BUT, it still passes it's MOT test every year with flying colours. (MOT=Ministry of Transport) test for roadworthiness
On the other hand my 740 SE Saloon, a 12 year old which has been treated rather better has no rust anywhere once failed it's MOT test because of a worn wiper blade, tsk!
One of my friends who has a 9 year old Land Rover Discovery just spent £870 to get it throught the MOT test and it's body is made entirely of aluminium !!! It's just the rest of it was a bit worn !!!!!

What's Rain?? LOL see we out in southern california dont have rust nor do we have rain or winter, nor do we have anything like your mot test, the only thing we have is SMOG and anyone that lives in southern california will tell you the smog test's suck if you own a volvo they sometimes pass and sometimes dont then you have to get in there clean the flame trap, clean the throttle body ETC and when worse comes replace the catty to pass, wont give you your reg until you pass there " your car is now putting clean exhust into the air test " lol like its ever clean, BUT i cant complain to bad at least we in the LA area can still breathe.

what's summer? what's Superbowl? What's Stanley Cup? oops, Sorry, we here in Buffalo ramble sometimes!
The most importanmt spot to watch for hidden corrosion on 7/9 series in this part of the world includes the space at the very bottom of the front insides of the fender liners. Open the hood (or bonnet, mate) and look down deep on either side. Poke a bit with a pointed stick (Python fans only!) to reveal any hidden corrosion under paint. Water seems to be able to collect down there and eat up the seams at the firewall.