Why do transits rust so much?

MikeHunt79

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I've been looking around, and it seems any transit older than a few years is rusted to hell! Especially around the arches...

Do ford not bother galvanizing them or something? Or is it down to the abuse of notorious white van man?
 
Abuse. Years of chucking ladders and toolboxes and tins of paint and god knows what else in and out, inevitably hitting the van on the way ;)
 
Rotten wheel arches and door bottoms has always been a bit of a Ford thing. I suppose van owners are less bothered about it than they would be if it was their car.
 
I'd say it's down to Ford. My Vauxhall Movano and some of other lad's Citreon Relays and Renault Masters are fine after 6 years of abuse.
 
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Abuse. Years of chucking ladders and toolboxes and tins of paint and god knows what else in and out, inevitably hitting the van on the way ;)
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I don't know about you but I tend to put that sort of thing IN a van not chuck it at the arches.

Each to their own though :p
 
people don't respect them so they chip off paint, as soon as there's any paint remved, water gets at the metal, and it rusts.
 
poor build quality tbh I used to work with Ford dealing with warranty claims and i've seen transits that bad with corrosion under 3 years old that the only option has been a replacement shell. unfortunately ts a ford thing although bear in mind these vehicles are designed to have a finite useabe lifespan. on the other hand the old man has a Vauxhall Movano which is coming up 3 yuears and 260k miles and its like new, never broke down and looks immaculate (when he bothers to wash it) bar the front end which is stonechipped to hell.


just stay the hell away from Ford Commercial vehicles they're chronicly bad and he support service is even worse (anyone who owned a transit circa 2004 beginning 2005 will remember ford running out of brake discs on a national level :) twas fun. ended up with transits dumped in dealers yards nationwide for want of a set of discs
 
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i think its also down to the face they're never cleaned

Ive seen 56 plate 7.5Tonners that have obviously never been cleaned in their life with bubbling paint work.
 
Loads of potentially valid answers here, what about a badly designed arch that traps water.
 
I Love Transits :D
Basically Ford do Nothing to prevent rust & the design is complete pants, On top of that most vans start off there life being owned by a company who put 200k on it in the first few years then bin it off. Driven by people that do not own them they are cained & not protected or looked after. I know a Dude who bought a G reg tranny brand new, Sprayed the underneath with Schutz & greased everything once a year, He still has it now & it's Mint, Top to bottom :cool:
There are decent trannys about but only the ones that were bought new by a Private bloke & then changed hands through Personal type owners rather than company type owners.
I even have an Original Ford Workshop manual for Transits that is my regular Bog read & has been for years, It's like a telephone book :cool:
Don't know what it is about them but probably it's just that in your blood historic personal thing you get with things that have been about in your life for what seems like forever. The things I've done in a Transit cannot be posted here :D
 
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