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Tidied up the wheel arch a bit, and had a poke at the gutters.

Full of sealant


Sealant picked out


Even found a few spot welds, but not many…

Few more sessions at the van, finished attaching the wheel arch. Not brilliantly but rust free, for now! https://i.imgur.com/TZ55EQn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/XQVujkn.jpeg I was careless when doing the first bit, butt welding the front end of the section in the post above, didn’t dolly the welds so i...

Just bought a set of these, for those occasions when a conventional helmet gets in the way (underneath the front wheel arch in my case). They work well good field of vision and no fogging up despite sweating buckets today. Can be set to 8/10/12 darkening. But, I did get sunburn, so they aren’t going...

MOT rust assessment is about its proximity to structural components, eg suspension mounts, sills, steps, and other load bearing parts, as far as I know

If that's all then no, it's not bad, it's a bit of a wonder that there isn't more! Water gets in there from the rear vent on the D pillar, and I guess it's susceptible to road spray from the rear wheel.

Here or hereabouts? (hope this link attempt works)

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On to the wheel arch itself, got it fixed in position, and some puddle welds done at the front. https://i.imgur.com/tJi5Fga.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/gslaWGh.jpeg Did some down the rear edge too, but they turned out dreadful. In my defence I could hardly see what I was doing, but they're going to hav...

Bottom front end of the front wheel arch. Chopped out the filigree, which was all that was left https://i.imgur.com/iAzUnYi.jpeg Made a new bit to go in https://i.imgur.com/h2rFH4g.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/00krm4k.jpeg Welded in, not very prettily, but effectively... https://i.imgur.com/M83VXGj.jpeg

Don’t be tempted to peek under the edge of the roof….

Sorry 

To be fair, it looks in pretty good nick (certainly compared to mine) and cleaning back to shiny then welding a patch on may well suffice.

I’d suggest having a look around the front of the jacking point too, especially on the inside edge where it joins to the front surface of the cross-member, just in case there’s more that wasn’t spotted. That’s going to help you with deciding what to do.

Good luck.

There’s a hole (for inspection?) just above the trailing arm/jacking point mount, that should have a rubber bung in it. Your van may have a hole with a bung / a hole without a bung / no hole (as a result of a previous bit of welding) / a rusted out hole. Or, perforations higher up in the wheel arch,...

Well, first visit to the van today, in a very long time. Still some condensation after that brutal cold spell followed by unseasonably warm weather that we have currently. Generator started ok, MIG still working and the welding wire doesn’t seem to have rusted. Put my back out refilling the gen from...

I tapped in the metal insert and resecured the rubber pipe with multiple zip ties at the side of the road once, refilling the coolant from the drinking water. I like Cecil’s method, tho I went with stainless pipes as soon as I could. I found the all four pipe ends were failing, so I’d suggest you th...