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What the best way to treat / deal with this spot of rust .. ?

Might be able to see better on this

very difficult to erradicate it for good without surgery.
at best it needs taking back to bare metal with a shot blast gun but the corrosion will most likely have spread from around the edges, either from the bumper side or the rear 1/4 join. so any treatment to the face would be short lived without treating the source of the issue.

maybe JB will come along with a more possitive solution

To be fair, its been like it for a year or 2, .. but I haven't paid attention to it given I wasn't expecting to still have the car. The plan was to have the Graemes company car when it came out of lease ( this month ). However I have had to take a year off work, so it wont be happening now. So its time to tidy up the old boy and invest a few quid ( again ). Apart from the rust issue he is going in for Clutch and DMF next week, new injectors the week after and a Cam Belt and W/P the first week in December. Seem to be at that point when I'm spending a ton of cash again. In the last few months its had 2 rear Shockers, top arms , bottom arms and drop links . I reckon ive spent over 10k on this car in the last 4 years!

On the clutch autolusso do a solid flywheel kit which is a twin spark flywheel thats been skim and re drilled to use a gta clutch

On the rust spot, i'd spot blast back as kev suggests, see how far it really goes, remove what you can see, Jenolite or POR15 treat the exposed area, and then a little skim of filler and smart repair.

as for the clutch, i'd use C and G Motorsport. I used one of their stage 2 clutches for my tuned 2.4 jtd a few years ago, it was brilliant performance and value compared to the stock Valeo stuff at twice the price from Alfa.

http://www.clutch-specialists.co.uk/


Catch a tired clutch early enough and you don't necessarily need a dmf aswell.


Good luck Joe