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I recently noticed a bit of rust colour coming from under the drivers side rear quarter glass trim on my wagon. I put off removing the trims for ages until Geach pointed out how easy they are to get off. I couldnt believe the crap i found in there - and rust in both sides of the car.











I have since taken the trims off 2 mates cars and they both have rust in there aswell. The gutters empty into the bottom of the glass through the trim along the rear edge of the window, so any bit of crap you ever pick up in your gutters ends up stuck here. I make a point of hosing out my gutters every time i was the car but it obviously hasnt helped..

To get the trims off you just open the tailgate and slide a flat blade screwdriver in from the rear to pop the first slip off. from there they will just pull out by hand.

I dont have any photos of the rust in the passenger side but its alot worse than the drivers side to the point i think im going to have to take the glass out to fix it properly.

I removed mine when I had the car painted .The tail gat was not easy so Mike helped me on that .I had only a small peice of rust nothing like yours .

hehe so no different to the L series......

no more rust growth there ever since I lost the trims years ago....might look
a bit ugly but.......

Got any kind of rust proofing on there dangerous ?

On the sedan you will notice some under the rear strip on the back window below. You have to pull it off of coarse to see it. Get somw fish oil onto it.

did the underbody / guards with tectyl before it ever went on the beach, but nothing has been rust proofed above the sills..

I am having my rear bumper resprayed soon, i amgoing to get them to respray these areas while im at it