Oh Deer · Nov 24, 2011

This old disco had almost no visible rust about 10 months ago when I got it... Well I live right on the bay and I got it in some saltwater off-roading like an idiot a couple times. That with the unavoidable exposure to salt from living here, and now look at it:

(ImageShack Slideshow)Land Rover Rust

That with lots of time spent underneath the thing with a pressure sprayer after getting it in saltwater.

crashbox · Nov 24, 2011

Buy a boat. Happy Thanks giving by the way..

matthew2riches · Nov 24, 2011

No visible rust you say? Was it all nice and black and shiny under it when you got it? If so then I reckon it was underbody sprayed just before you bought it to hide the rust.

Happens a lot then when the winter appears it blows out in huge scabs and all the waxoyl falls off!!

lazydog · Nov 24, 2011

Just be thankful you dont live in UK with salt they put on the roads in winter gets everywhere "horrid stuff"

Oh Deer · Nov 24, 2011

matthew2riches said:
No visible rust you say? Was it all nice and black and shiny under it when you got it? If so then I reckon it was underbody sprayed just before you bought it to hide the rust.

Happens a lot then when the winter appears it blows out in huge scabs and all the waxoyl falls off!!

It came from the San Antonio, TX area which is pretty dry.

I doubt it was resprayed as I can still see patches of what appears an antitrust coating(from the factory?) and it wasn't shiny.

arienol · Nov 24, 2011

That still looks immaculate by UK standards

trax99 · Nov 25, 2011

arienol said:
That still looks immaculate by UK standards

beat me to it, I've seen some real horror stories

Brian S · Nov 25, 2011

I wish mine was as clean as that.

pedros · Nov 25, 2011

Hell, that's not bad at all. Except perhaps for the southern US. My last Disco 2 chassis looked like it was made of brandy snaps, and had much the same qualities (taste apart).

RichM · Nov 25, 2011

By your description, I was expecting to see a rotted out disco. What you have there is a little bit of surface rust. Here in the UK, I'd say 99% of disco 1's on the road have that. (at least)

Mr Noisy · Nov 25, 2011

It looks like its 2 years old, you're lucky!

Get this!!

100% land rover, 25% gone!

lazydog · Nov 25, 2011

I can remember when the first Disco's and RR came out and they where stored before the release date,they where worse than that and they was supposed to be brand new.

lazydog · Nov 25, 2011

Mr Noisy said:
It looks like its 2 years old, you're lucky!

Get this!!

100% land rover, 25% gone!

The very rare lightweight version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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