Introduction
Thought I would share a few photos on my removal of the interior of my B.
Hearing stories on this forum of rust lurking under the rubber matting I thought I had best check my car. Also wanted to investigate the smell of petrol that seems to be a common problem.
Driver's side inner sill area, small amount of surface rust. Looks bad in photo but treated with cure rust and eventually it will be wax oiled. Note also the aperture into the sill cavity. This was sealed but I have removed to inspect and to wax oil.
Same on the passenger side, no rust but treated anway.
Removed the rubber bungs under the seat area, these had started to rust, so treated.
Removed the petrol tank, to find the leak but also to check the rear arches.
Bad news rust is very evident, thought it was a small amount but the screwdriver revealed more. Main reason for this I think is that the filler pipe has a foam sleave wrapped around it, this was quite damp, so somehow water was getting onto this foam.the foam sits on the inner arch.
Hearing stories on this forum of rust lurking under the rubber matting I thought I had best check my car. Also wanted to investigate the smell of petrol that seems to be a common problem.
Driver's side inner sill area, small amount of surface rust. Looks bad in photo but treated with cure rust and eventually it will be wax oiled. Note also the aperture into the sill cavity. This was sealed but I have removed to inspect and to wax oil.
Same on the passenger side, no rust but treated anway.
Removed the rubber bungs under the seat area, these had started to rust, so treated.
Removed the petrol tank, to find the leak but also to check the rear arches.
Bad news rust is very evident, thought it was a small amount but the screwdriver revealed more. Main reason for this I think is that the filler pipe has a foam sleave wrapped around it, this was quite damp, so somehow water was getting onto this foam.the foam sits on the inner arch.
