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Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT
I'm not seeing any rust there. The beam is alloy, carefully designed to crush in an accident and be replaceable in a minor shunt..
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I think he's referring to the rusty bolt heads. I agree with you though Harry, a good cleanup followed by some protection should keep the corrosion at bay.
As most of you know, I like a shiny engine bay. I was looking to replace my suspension top nuts with stainless until the good folks of this forum explained why it may be unwise. Instead, I polished up the originals and gave them a coat or 2 of clearcoat. A few years on and they still look like this:
For an area that's not on show, a coat of grease would be far simpler and just as effective though.
Cliff