Just joined your great forum and just put down a deposit on my first 1997 300tdi XS. Great condition except for the usual discovery rust places you talk about on the cills, inner front footwells and rear arches. It's from a small dealer who is going to service/MOT it for me and have all the necessary welding down on these rusty places to get it passed. After reading the Forum it seems sorting out the cills and inner arches etc seems to be expensive. This guy is going to pay for this to be done, but once sorted is it permanent? My question is: if they weld and sort out all these rusty places for the MOT and I then look after it, (underseal, etc), is it going to last or will it just be a temporary repair and at the next MOT I'll be faced with more welding and expense, (but this time I'll have to pay!)? Should I walk away and keep looking, (not many good ones around in North Scotland), or once the welding work is done should I have a good machine that willl last a while? Thanks for your help.
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PASTMASTER
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I'd suggest a lot of Waxoyl rather than underseal. If you can, get all the hollow sections injected as well. It also preserves your electrics.
RAZ8550TDI
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if your sills have been done properly then it should out live you! i done mine late summer just gone and instead of plating the parts that need dooing which is what he will do as its gonna eat into his profit then i'd have the whole thing done or next year you will ahve more patches to do then ittle be like a patchwork quilt. if he wont replace the sills then walk away.
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Get some 100x40x3mm Box section and you'll have rockslider/sills for half the price of proper sills
dingwalldemon
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where's the dealership? im in the north of scotland, i'll let u know if there dodgy!
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To walk away or not, that is the question - well, depends on how much you're paying eg if it's a grand then ok, if it's two grand walk away.
I've just bought (after a lot of looking) a '98 Disco TDi 300 auto, with no rust at all that I can find, for £2200.
Rust in a Disco, especially expensive bits like sills, marks the end. Try to find a cleaner example unless it's REALLY cheap.
RAZ8550TDI
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depends how handy your are at fabrication, i made my own and done my own labour so i think taking into fact that my galvanised steel sheet was about 20 quid, 10 quids worth of gas, reel of wire 6 quid, and a grindin blade and some underseal then your not looking at much at all, but to put things into context around here going rate is about 30 quid a patch and thats if its easy to do.
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