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[lacedr]

Hi, i have a 1986 2.5 lux and have noticed this gap from the floor to the sill is this meant to be like this ?
cheers
Dave

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[lacedr]

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[944Turbo]

ORIGINAL: lacedr Hi, i have a 1986 2.5 lux and have noticed this gap from the floor to the sill is this meant to be like this ? cheers Dave

A while since I looked so not sure exactly how it should look, but sorted the image codes for you - hit quote to see what I did!

 

[colin944]

Is that the bottom of the front wing? If so then its fine,although i would be worried by the amount of underseal etc on the floor. Looks like it has been put on with a shovel. I would get that off and get the underseal re-done. That could be hiding all sorts of stuff.

 

[edh]

It's just behind the front wheel arch isn't it? I don't ever recall seeing a hole there... What does the other side look like?

 

[colin944]

If your talking about the triangular shape gap. Then that is the gap between the bottom of the front wing and the floor. It is totally normal.If you take the wheel off then you can get the arch liner off and clean all the crud out of that section and behind the bottom of the wing. If you are talking about the round hole then that is the support point for a work shop lift. And again it is totally normal looking if a bit squashed from being used through the years. I would still say you should get under your car and clean all the crud off and look at the condition of your under-seal. It looks way too thick and heavy a coat for my liking.It looks like someone in the past has under-sealed over the original under-seal( original stuff is very thick and hard to get off) to cover holes or cracks in the original treatment.

 

[Catamax944]

+1 on the underseal , you can tell it's not stock because it's not body color . The gap is normal but always found a lot of dirt in there in short periods of time so i have made a plastic cap for it in order to keep the dirt out , and i made 3 drainage holes along the side to let the water out that comes down from the upper drain.

 

[lacedr]

ORIGINAL: 944Turbo

ORIGINAL: lacedr Hi, i have a 1986 2.5 lux and have noticed this gap from the floor to the sill is this meant to be like this ? cheers Dave

A while since I looked so not sure exactly how it should look, but sorted the image codes for you - hit quote to see what I did!

Thanks[]

 

[lacedr]

Thanks for the replies, phew panic over! i will make up some plastic covers not before i have given them a good clean out. agree on the under seal its on one of my to do lists cheers Dave

 

[Alpine]

I don't think the underseal was ever body colour. Looks pretty normal, just give it a good clean up.

 

[Catamax944]

All porsche's are painted top and bottom , the underside and wheel wells are body color . It's difficult to tell from all the much and dirt gathered over the years but if you scrub it down a little you will see. I scrubbed mine last year and it turned out very nice but it didn't last long since it's a daily driver ,still much better than before though ,i'll do it again in 25 years.

 

[os951]

I don't think the underseal was ever body colour

As Catalin wrote, underseal was body color. only part which was not body color was fuel tank area. We noticed that when removed fuel tank from son's project 951. We cleaned project car's bottom properly and painted it again. Also that part factory didn't []

 

[colin944]

My under seal is not body colour but only because I removed all the original seal and re sealed it in my quest to find and eliminate rust. The only thing I van't understand is why UK cars seem to rust like mad and cars in Finland don't. It must be to do with the type of salt we use on our roads.My car was a daily driver for it's whole life covering about 7 - 9 thousand miles a year since it was new. I was the first owner who bought it as a second car. All the corrosion on mine was in the areas where crud dirt and salt would accumulate. I.e. between the plastic side moldings and the sill/floor.Also just about every other 944 I've seen has corrosion in these areas although I will admit it's not always visible although the telltale signs are there.Most of the serious rust on mine was hiding underneath the factory under-seal or inside box sections that you cant see without cutting bits off. But then you look at Olie's son's car and it looks perfect. So why is that?

 

[Diver944]

I'm guessing (and I'm sure Ollie will correct me if I'm wrong) that they don't actually salt the roads. It's all hard compacted snow/ice for months on end and they learn to cope with it using proper winter/ studded tyres. There is a reason the best rally drivers all hail from Scandinavia.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

I'm guessing (and I'm sure Ollie will correct me if I'm wrong) that they don't actually salt the roads

Might also be our higher humidity levels, all that moist air inside the cavities. [&o]

 

[GlennS]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

I'm guessing (and I'm sure Ollie will correct me if I'm wrong) that they don't actually salt the roads

Might also be our higher humidity levels, all that moist air inside the cavities. [&o]

Also... corrosion rates increase with increasing temperature. It's warmer here.

 

[colin944]

All good points boys. I'm also sure that we use a lot more salt up this end of the country than they do down south. Every time the roads dry out up here in the winter they are white with salt.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

I'm also sure that we use a lot more salt up this end of the country than they do down south.

Rubbish! [] Serously, we probably spend more on gritting the roads down here because we're all so surprised to see any snow, and it's the politicians who are driving down the local motorways each day. Does anyone know where our illustrious PM spends his official weekends (Princes Risborough, in the Chilterns), or his unofficial weekends (Chipping Norton, down the M40 with the media hi-flyers). [] All the roads around me were salted last weekend; we did dip down to -2 this week to be fair, so minor inconvenience was narrowly avoided. You can hear it pinging up off the road and landing in the rust-traps even if it doesn't hit you as you pass the flippin' spreader! []

 

[colin944]

Fair play Paul. I stand corrected [][][][]

 

[os951]

Yes, unfortunately roads are salted here as well. I once discussed use of salt with my UK friend and found out the amount of salt used in UK per KM is about 100 times more we use here. We can use less salt because we have mandatory winter tires between 1st of December - 31st of March. If needed you can install winter tires earlier and use them later. I suppose your climate is also what causes these cars to rot more thane here.