prab
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Oct 16, 2012 11:33:16 GMT
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It does also help that AXs have plastic bootlids and BXs have plastic bonnets and boots. We had a fibreglass-bodied Espace when I was young. Mk1 espaces rot like anybodies bussiness mate, the fibreglass delaminates from the metalwork and the metalwork rots! Prab
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mudpud
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Oct 16, 2012 13:12:42 GMT
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French cars lack of rust.? Mk 1 Scenics do. Mine was a tea bag in just 5 years even the front and rear axles were full of holes.Mind you it still ran like a clock with 200,000 ks on the clock.but the body was totally beyond repair.Scrap yard!
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Dom
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Limey
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Oct 16, 2012 16:20:42 GMT
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It does also help that AXs have plastic bootlids and BXs have plastic bonnets and boots. We had a fibreglass-bodied Espace when I was young. Mk1 espaces rot like anybodies bussiness mate, the fibreglass delaminates from the metalwork and the metalwork rots! Prab Very true. Completely gone around one of the door hinges. This was a mk2 though, like this. We had a mk1 before, but I was too young to know what the body condition was when we sold it.
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scmick
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Oct 16, 2012 16:38:02 GMT
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Have been running a '93 Kreg Espace Mk 2 since '97 as tow car for my SIMCA's. For the most part, the galvanising under the fibreglass panels has survived well. Bought another cheap K reg '93 MoT failure for spares a few years ago , lower mileage than mine, which was terminally rotten around the rear suspension mountings. This suggests MATRA's (They built the Mk 1,2 & 3 Espace for Renault) galvanising process was very 'hit & miss'. The other car has supplied loads of expensive to buy Renault parts to keep mine going and still survives as a 'shed' for bits for my other projects. Mick
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