Is this bad rust on Clio 172 cup?

[Ben1720Cup]

Hi guys

I’ve just been advised by my local garage that I should probably fix my car and sell it due to the amount of rust it has. My brake lines are so rusty that you can peel them apart. What should I do?

 

[gez 172]

Seems fairly minimal to me. Worse case it’s just new lines

 

[JamesBryan]

Can get a full braided line kit for fairly cheap.

Try @BRT Motorsport on here, Paul will sort you out.

 

[Ben1720Cup]

How bad does this look guys?

 

[alistairolsen]

I mean it needs sorted, but if you like the car and want to keep it it's nothing that's difficult to sort.

 

[DomP182]

I had a broken wire in the loom on my old 182, the garage that fixed tried telling me I should sell it as the loom was in a bad state. I think they came out with this crap to justify the fact it took them 8 weeks to find including sending my ECU away for testing.

 

[JamesBryan]

I had a broken wire in the loom on my old 182, the garage that fixed tried telling me I should sell it as the loom was in a bad state. I think they came out with this crap to justify the fact it took them 8 weeks to find including sending my ECU away for testing.

Those are the types of businesses that don't want the work, typically.

They just want quick turnover servicing and light repairs.

 

[DomP182]

Those are the types of businesses that don't want the work, typically.

They just want quick turnover servicing and light repairs.

They charged me £800 for the pleasure, I made it very clear I thought they were taking the pi$$. Interestingly while searching Ebay a few weeks later I found them selling a 182 virgin ECU, given that I live in a pretty rural area I found it quite unlikely that they had worked on another 182 recently. Still in my watch list 4 years later so they've not cashed in on it yet😄

 

[JamesBryan]

They charged me £800 for the pleasure, I made it very clear I thought they were taking the pi$$. Interestingly while searching Ebay a few weeks later I found them selling a 182 virgin ECU, given that I live in a pretty rural area I found it quite unlikely that they had worked on another 182 recently. Still in my watch list 4 years later so they've not cashed in on it yet😄

They stole your ECU?

 

[Ben1720Cup]

Basically it’s not much to sort and I can keep the car guys? I want to make it into a track car I just wasn’t sure the shell would be good enough etc.

 

[DomP182]

They stole your ECU?

I think in desperation they must have bought one trying to fix my car then charged me for it but kept it

 

[R3k1355]

How bad does this look guys?

Needs some metalwork but nothing major.

Getting on for 20 years old, things like this will pop up.

 

[DomP182]

Kington is only around 2000 population so I made it pretty obvious that I knew what was going on when I messaged them on Ebay about the ECU

 

[Louis]

How bad does this look guys?

This is nothing and purely from incorrect jacking. These points get weak and fail as you've seen.

You can also get lines easily, dont be fooled by the garage

 

[dann2707]

If you want to sell the car for a quick hassle free sale let me know.

 

[npt]

These clios do rust in certain hard to get to areas, them brake lines should of failed the mot a good few years ago, but are cheap and very easy to fix, the green areas on the lines are a sign of erosion and will likely fail very soon, find someone on here local who knows what their doing and change all the lines, easily done in a day no issues, basic maintenance

 

[Louis]

These clios do rust in certain hard to get to areas, them brake lines should of failed the mot a good few years ago, but are cheap and very easy to fix, the green areas on the lines are a sign of erosion and will likely fail very soon, find someone on here local who knows what their doing and change all the lines, easily done in a day no issues, basic maintenance

Not true, they're green from factory.

 

[Mark.B]

I reckon those brake pipes would burst if you had to stand on them hard 😉😮

I certainly wouldn't be selling the car for any of those problems though!