seems to me that opel cars were made from inferior quality steel well into 90's. all kadett, vectra,astra and omega cars rust very badly.
about VW, three examples come to mind:
1) early 70's beetle that a friend of mine was restoring couple years ago. WHAT A RUSTBUCKET!!!
holes everywhere but worst were C pillars. rusted to bits because they were factory filled with foam. now that's faulty design, not poor quality of steel.
i have 1969. fiats 850sport and 124 sport and they're not nearly as rusty.
2) VW passat from 2004. came to my friends garage for suspension checkup. turned out that it needed all 4 (
?) new front suspension arms. silent blocks gone, lower balljoints too. can't be changed individually, suspension arms are made of aluminium. expensive beyond reason. that's 7 yers old, too early for such expensive repairs.
sorry guys, but theories about quality of steel, cars sitting in the ports getting sprayed by salty water etc are all bull. it's lack of rustproofing and faulty design.
and about renault megane... bouncy ride, poor quality of interior plastic, and it's UGLY.
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