Rust on sills

poloking · Post by **poloking** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:10 pm

Went to see a polo gti today and it had rust showing on the door sills. How serious is this problem if I get it sorted? (of reoccurance?)

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:25 pm

is it at the join between the to sills? in the middle of the sill? any pics?

poloking · Post by **poloking** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:24 pm

Its when you open the door, on the corner. Tiny bubbles.

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:29 pm

The sills are part of the chassis on the GTi. I would imagine that rust, depending on its exact location, could possibly be a sign of accident repair work. I say this because this is what happened to my car, rust developed in the rear offside wheel arch late last year (three years after I bought the car) which through further investigation led me to find evidence of accident repair work to the rear offside quarter

All sorted now though!

Poloking, if you look at the picture below can you tell us where the rust is?

Cheers

And welcome to uk-polos!!

poloking · Post by **poloking** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:04 am

Cheers Si GTi!

The rust is on the bottom left of that picture. On one side of the car, you can actually see the rust when the door is closed also.

vr6south · Post by **vr6south** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:20 pm

If a Polo has rust at this age there has got to be something wrong. I would avoid it at all costs unless it's being given away!

h4r1s · Post by **h4r1s** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:14 pm

Isn't the whole body of the mk5 polo glavanised, which should mean no rust, unless there has been damage repair etc.

poloking · Post by **poloking** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:23 pm

Well the Polo was a W/2000 model so isn't a bit of rust normal for a 7 yr old car?

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:19 pm

Not really.

As Haris says the body should be galvanised which I think carries something stupid like a 25 yeard guarantee

poloking · Post by **poloking** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:35 pm

so a rusted polo is probably accidented?

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:46 pm

A Mk5 shouldn't rust. The only rusty bits on my car are tiny bits in the engine bay but not the bodywork of the car

VR6 South · Post by **VR6 South** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:16 pm

poloking wrote:so a rusted polo is probably accidented?

Either that or it's spent a lot of time near the sea