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Update on the flooded '92 200

uid 5174's pic
posted by  djtibb on  Wed Apr 24 02:12 CST 2002
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The orange spots would greatly concern me. Where on the doors were they?

As others have pointed out, galvanized does not rust this way. Galvanized steel is plated with zinc. The zinc rusts first to protect the steel. When it rusts, it is a light gray color. If the car has orange spots, the steel beneath is rusting. Additionally, when metal is treated with an anticorrosive coating and the coating is stripped away in a small area exposing the bare metal, that area of bare metal will rust much faster than metal that has not been treated at all.

I think you should avoid the car and keep looking.

Good luck
Don Tibbetts
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92 745T 92K mi






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