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lambert:
all things being equal on a fairly well looked after example how old do disco's get befor needing serious rust repairs?

I know each vehicle will be affected by many variables  but in general terms what  age do they get to 10, 15, 20?

bilge rat:
red is a 96 i think thats had floor and front sill repair and im just going to do the front inner wings, thats after ive just done clutch , rebuilt box, re seal sump, rear main and an oil cooler pipe. back to corrosion blue 95 had rear crossmember repair and boot floor . so thats about 12 years but no chassis probs , have heard of younger discos with corrosion probs. the jap imports are ment to sound but you pay well for them ..alan....

Disco Matt:
It really does seem to change from car to car. Mine's a 1996 and doesn't seem to have any major rust problems, just a few patches of surface rust. The main problem I have is that the back bumper keeps rusting as the plastic flap between it and the body scrapes the paint off!

stevepage3:
Hi

My 1991 Disco has had the usaual problems, i.e boot floor, but that was down to leaking sunroof and thick absorbant soundproofing. I have recently replaced the sills with 150 x 60mm 3mm wall box section but could have got away with just plating the dodgy areas. Other than that there doesn't appear to be to much rot elsewhere.

Steve

clover:
Anybodies guess!

We had two in for MOT work a couple of weeks ago.

One was an early 200TDI on a G plate. No welding required. Had a couple of small plates on the outer sills but other than that looked original!

The other was an R reg and that was as rotten as a pear! Needed the best part of 2 days worth of welding!

My K reg looked great until I started removing plastic bits! I've since had to weld new inner and out sills on one side. I had to weld up the rear passenger side floor. I have had to weld a large repair section onto the rear cross member. I had to weld up the bottom of the back door goal posts (still need to do some more remedial work on this if I can work out how to do it!). I am in the process of welding up the rear of the body shell so there is some metal to attach a new boot floor to (the old one was shot). I still need to weld 2 plates on the rear inner wheel arches. Then I need to weld new inner sill on the other side and a couple of patches on the outer sill on the other side! I could not do the weld box section option on mine as the inner sills are so bad there was not enough left to weld it to! Then when I have done this I need to weld a patch on the inner wing at the front by the washer bottle. I must be stark raving mad! It started as just a couple of minor bits of welding and became a full repair project! I must be stark raving mad!

If I'd have known at the start what was ahead I'd have scrapped the darn thing!

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