202 RUST! Beware

[andy27168]

(Breathes a sigh of relief)!

 

[BlackC55]

Or is it?

 

[LTD]

(Breathes a sigh of relief)!

It'll only be £450

 

[andy27168]

Whose doing the welding on this one Olly?

 

[timk]

difficult to quote for as until it is stripped and ground back the full extent is unkown. £500 should cover it for both sides. That will include grinding and cutting ALL of the corrosion off, making panels to patch up the holes, rust proofing then sealing and finally Dinitrol or Waxoyl.

Andy: Yours is not as bad.

Do let me know how you get on with it. Might well send mine in your direction as well.

 

[cazyp]

Can new replacement sills still be bought for the w202?

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Nasty! Very nasty...

When washing mine, I keep an eye on the amount of water flowing out the drainage holes underneath the car, If it's not a fast steady flow I'll investigate

Ollie, have you noticed any problems on any w202s in the little gap which collects water where the rear toweye hoop joins the chassis? I found rust on mine and to re-sealed it

 

[Sonny Burnett]

wow none of my cars where even close to this... not even the 210 the grand warlord of rust...

 

[noogieman]

this rustproblem inside the sills, is it because gravel and muck gets inside the side skirts and clogging the drain holes?
The drain under the sills are they both connected to A pillar which is connected to sunroof drain pipes?
I found alot of muck when I had my car coated with Dinitrol.

Is it because of the amount of muck and gunk that clogs the draining holes or the amount of gravel getting stacked on top layer by layer and start grinding the factory coating on both side sills and then rust comes a cancer?

Maybe if taking these sills off once a year for a check up to prevent future rust attacks is a good idea?
is it good using a flat scredriver to pop off the sills or which tool is best to use?

 

[DRBC43AMG]

My 2 W202's

Guess I will be checking all this on my two cars, including sill removal. No visible rust on the 98' C240T but some on the C43 Where are the drain pipes situated? Any pictures available?
Thanks

 

[cazyp]

Guess I will be checking all this on my two cars, including sill removal. No visible rust on the 98' C240T but some on the C43 Where are the drain pipes situated? Any pictures available?
Thanks

I wouldn't even remove the sill covers - looks like the floor pan will drop out..



Sorry., - there is a tiny 1p sized bubble in the same place on my '96 c36.
I'd also be interested in best way to remove the sill covers.
Also if you can buy metal replacement sills to weld on?
Thanks

 

[BlackC55]

Guess I will be checking all this on my two cars, including sill removal. No visible rust on the 98' C240T but some on the C43 Where are the drain pipes situated? Any pictures available?
Thanks

Take your sills off. You will probably find more rust.

 

[Nasco12]

When you say it wasn't washed properly - how would you wash it? Isn't all of this almost completely inaccessible - unless you remove the skirts?

 

[bobby]

Olly, Andy... Wonder what mine'll be like when we check...

 

[Londonscottish]

I'd forgotten about this; my 99 C43 had to have a plate welded on the n/s sill. Last year at MOT time.

I wasn't too happy at the time....

Note; that was the first car I've had welded since I owned a 1973 Mini as a student in 1982......

 

[noogieman]

is it a good thing to take all 4 jack caps off the sills on left/right sides?
then high pressure wash the sills with a Kärcher?
put the nozzle on one side hole and wash the sill, all gunk and gravel comes out through the other hole from high pressured water?
is this a good thing to do?
and vice versa with the other hole, do this a few times and all muck comes out I think?

 

[BlackC55]

is it a good thing to take all 4 jack caps off the sills on left/right sides?
then high pressure wash the sills with a Kärcher?
put the nozzle on one side hole and wash the sill, all gunk and gravel comes out through the other hole from high pressured water?
is this a good thing to do?

Yes

 

[noogieman]

Yes

the high pressured wattaah isn't it going to sand blaster the protection coating inside the sills when gravel hits the coating?
high pressured water and sand/gravel moving around in a tight place hitting the inner sills coating, peeeeeeeeeeeeling?
sounds a bit risky?

 

[DRBC43AMG]

the high pressured wattaah isn't it going to sand blaster the protection coating inside the sills when gravel hits the coating?
high pressured water and sand/gravel moving around in a tight place hitting the inner sills coating, peeeeeeeeeeeeling?
sounds a bit risky?

Cut back some of the Karcher pressure if possible, or just flush with water using a garden hose pushing the hose down the sill. That should remove plenty of the underlying s**t without being too abrasive to the sills. However, a removal of the sills is still an excellent way to check if corrosion has taken hold

 

[Tiff]

Remember the post I made a while back when I repainted a W202 for a mate? Well its now scrapped... a combination of a surprising amount of welding being required, and a coil pack going down which fried the ECU. My old 202 needed a respray too because of rust, which I thankfully caught before it became serious. I'll stick to the old stuff..