Never seen this before. (severe rust)

[Saga Lout]

I was in a local breaker last week, he had a 75 Diesel in there with Ash Seats, I've wanted a spare seat to modify so that I can have a fully functional electric passenger seat. I carefully removed the seats and was faced with the horrors you can see in the pictures. The car was very tidy and you'd never suspect this was under the rear seat. It's worth taking the cover off under the rear arch to check the sealing around the feeds. As for the seat job, it's almost done, I just have to make a reverse circuit board for the switches, the mechanical bits are done and working fine. It's certainly easier to get in and out now and I don't feel like I'm looking down on the passengers.
I've also turned Red again...

[rustymotor]

Wow that's really badly rotted..must have been submerged at some point

[Dallas]

That is bad worst than the old Fords back in the day.

[clf]

Originally Posted by Saga Lout

I was in a local breaker last week, he had a 75 Diesel in there with Ash Seats, I've wanted a spare seat to modify so that I can have a fully functional electric passenger seat. I carefully removed the seats and was faced with the horrors you can see in the pictures. The car was very tidy and you'd never suspect this was under the rear seat. It's worth taking the cover off under the rear arch to check the sealing around the feeds. As for the seat job, it's almost done, I just have to make a reverse circuit board for the switches, the mechanical bits are done and working fine. It's certainly easier to get in and out now and I don't feel like I'm looking down on the passengers.
I've also turned Red again...

When I was doing the underseal, there seemed to be a lot of surface rust below that area. There is no real air flow for that area under the car, almost shielded from the air flow. (it was rubbed down and treated). I never thought though it would get that bad. That one looks like it has gathered moisture via the pipe conduit also.

[rustymotor]

All members will be rushing out and pulling the back seat swab

[Mickyboy]

I wonder if at some point in the cars history previously it may have been a insurance loss for flood damage, and water has got in there and never got out eating away.
I can honestly say in all the cars of dismantled when I’ve taken the rear seat out I’ve never seen anything like that, they normally pretty good in there to be fair
Mick

[marinabrian]

Originally Posted by Saga Lout

I was in a local breaker last week, he had a 75 Diesel in there with Ash Seats, I've wanted a spare seat to modify so that I can have a fully functional electric passenger seat. I carefully removed the seats and was faced with the horrors you can see in the pictures. The car was very tidy and you'd never suspect this was under the rear seat. It's worth taking the cover off under the rear arch to check the sealing around the feeds. As for the seat job, it's almost done, I just have to make a reverse circuit board for the switches, the mechanical bits are done and working fine. It's certainly easier to get in and out now and I don't feel like I'm looking down on the passengers.
I've also turned Red again...

Mike, source a LHD switchpack it is much easier, trust me

As you say the hard work has been done, time to relax now



Brian

Find the LHD switch pack HERE

Now you know I'm fairly handy with electrickery and mechanical stuff, but even I balked at making a RHD switchpack into an LHD one

[Jim Jamieson]

I agree with MarinaBrian the switch pack is quite complicated to work on.

I’ve got a new LH one sitting in my basket at Rimmers. I better get checked out before they go out of stock

[roverbarmy]

Water can seep into those areas if the bottom clips on the rear screen leak. Ask me how I know!!! Luckily, I found it early when I started to get condensation after a rainstorm. With a bead of sealant under and around those pesky clips, it is now as dry as a bone.

[FrazzleTC]

Even a couple of years ago when I was going round the yards regularly, I saw a few with the start of a significant amount of corrosion in that area, particularly where the neck terminates under the seat base.

That is spectacularly bad though. What age was the car?