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Not really true. The chassis on certain ages of cars do tend to rust if not treated and looked after on a regular basis but the body on frame construction means that the repairs are reasonably easy and the cost is low enough that it doesn't write off cars.
The powdercoat issue was only a real problem on cars built on the mid-latter part of the 90's.
ricky2slicky-
Yeah definitely more wrapped around lampposts / hedges. My old neighbor accounted for two of them. My mate’s brother-in-law another - he stuffed it in a motorway wall after loosing it in a straight line in the pissing rain. Very lucky to survive. (I think he had a speed 6)
Great cars though.
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Not really true. The chassis on certain ages of cars do tend to rust if not treated and looked after on a regular basis but the body on frame construction means that the repairs are reasonably easy and the cost is low enough that it doesn't write off cars.
The powdercoat issue was only a real problem on cars built on the mid-latter part of the 90's.
Barry Hart of Hartech (main rebuilder of the M96/M97/MA1 engines for the water cooled 911's) was telling a group from 911UK that Hartech used to buy engines from breakers, and also had a lot of people bringing them engines from cars that they'd bought from breakers to fit to their cars. What made them remarkable? A very high number of the supposedly good condition engines from cars that had been written off due to a prang were in fact buggered.
The suggestion was that someone identifying a requirement for a £13,000 rebuild on a £14,000 car would deliberately crash the car to get £14,000 back instead of spending the £13,000 and ending up with a car that was still worth £14,000.
How much would it cost to remove the rusty frame from a Cerbera and replace it with a new one, and would you get that spend back when you sold the car?
Jung
Dammit
Sadly I think it’s rust that has killed most of them- once the powder coat on the frame cracks the frame rusts through pretty fast.