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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by thesurfbus » Wed May 22, 2013 7:55 am

Apologies for hijacking this thread, but my S1 still has the original rubber mats bonded to the floor, should I remove them because of the corrosion problems I have read about?
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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by j2 lot » Wed May 22, 2013 9:39 am

Yiou might be able to feel the lumps and bumps through the mats rather than lifting them if they are still stuck down
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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by BiggestNizzy » Wed May 22, 2013 10:52 am

I would I did my floor last year and it was a horrible job :( I think it is made worse if you have car mats as well.
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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by Ferg » Thu May 23, 2013 9:39 pm

Did you check that there weren't any full perferations through the aluminium before it was applied? I suppose even a pin prick would be enough.

I had the rubber mats when I got mine. I lifted them and scraped all the glue and corrosion off then sprayed with wd40. I was fed up of working in teh foot wells after scraping the floors so left it there. :) Its not really got any worse since.
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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by Stewart » Thu May 23, 2013 10:06 pm

RAMTOP_ERROR wrote:Anybody have any experience of the issue I first described or thoughts on what to do with it?

Ta,
MMC did my S1 a few years ago. My floor wasn't too bad but when I looked at it it looked like they had gone pretty hard at it with a grinder before applying what appeared to be a clear varnish.

I wonder if I still have the pics?....

Just had a look and I only have the before shots

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@thesurfbus you probably should lift the mats as mine didn't feel too bad at the time but as you can see it wasn't pretty.

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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by thesurfbus » Fri May 24, 2013 8:17 am

Another job to put on the list...
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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by blackbird » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:26 pm

lotus used to fix this problem by cleaning the corrosion and then glueing a new floor into the footwell
dont know if they still do it
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Re: Footwell corrosion - POR15

Post by blackbird » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:28 pm

forgot to say that it was done for free
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