Rusty underside

[Guest]

Still not sold my Tiger, so no proper prospect of buying a Stag but I am keeping an eye out for any that look like what I am after.

There is one on ebay at the moment that appears quite solid and, out of interest, I had the guy send me some pics of any rusty areas. These are what he sent ;

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So on the one above, which cross member is it? Does that look bad? Are those actual cracks in the floor pan?

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On the one above and below, are those floor pan cracks? Are they bad enough to require serious work / new pans?


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I won't be able to pursue this one but I would be reallly grateful for future cars, to hear what people think about what the pictures show.

[Bob Heritage]

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Your first picture is the drivers side footwell that hashad the outriggerwelded

[stagmuffin]

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i stand to be corrected but im dam sure i see no cracks just the development impressions..............and at a pinch all looks not to bad maybe just need to spend some time cleaning and repainting the underside imho from the pics.....cheers steve

[Thurlo Squire]

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Looks like oil leak stainage on the exhaust in pic 1.

Nigel

[stustag]

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Hi

The underside looks like mine did when I first got it, that was very solid once i had cleaned all the underseal off.

A few hours cleaning treating and painting it would be fine looking at those photo's.

Stuart

[AlanD]

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hi guys, thanks for these posts, i learn a lot. the underside of mine is very similar,but without the welding, wards had a look at mine and said it was solid, needs stripping and sealing, they advised me to wax then winter job for the rest

alan

[Guest]

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Thanks to everyone who so far has responded.

In fairness the seller said that the underside just needed undersealing and, as I havent been ubder a Stag, I couldn't decide if what looked like cracks actually were just joints.

Does the outrigger joint look ok or not?

[mad cyclist]

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how much is the Tiger up for.....blunt me...

[Stagdad]

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Its the other end of the outrigger you need to look at where it meets the inner cill due to crud being sprayed at it off the wheels.

Cheers Steve

[Guest]

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mad cyclist wrote:

how much is the Tiger up for.....blunt me...

Lol...nothing wrong with being blunt!

I should say it's a Tiger Cat and not a Tiger which are obviously radically different cars!

So my Tiger Cat is up for £4500ono, which is £250 down from when I first put it up for sale about 3 weeks ago.

[Moraystag]

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As stagdad says it's the other side of the outrigger that is the achilies heal, I'm no expert by any means but ask him for a picture of where it joins into the inner sill.

Just think where this has led me, I was the victim of a cleverly disguised underside. It looked 100% better than the pictures that you have been sent and mechanics had commented on how good the underside looked. A load of heartache later, a ridiculous carry on with a body shop, and now in the hands of a solicitor.

My advise to you is walk away, don't be hasty one will turn up that will float your boat mate. I may be out of order but this is my opinion

[stag8manod]

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Hi, The worst place on mine was under the back seat where the sound deadning was glued on the inside and had cracked with age. being a convertible it has got wet and retained the moistureinside and slowly rusted from the inside out, like a calender. A car restorer friend made me a new piece of floor section as originalwhich I migged in and undersealed inside ond out.

Cheers Ian A

[Guest]

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Moraystag wrote:

As stagdad says it's the other side of the outrigger that is the achilies heal, I'm no expert by any means but ask him for a picture of where it joins into the inner sill.

Just think where this has led me, I was the victim of a cleverly disguised underside. It looked 100% better than the pictures that you have been sent and mechanics had commented on how good the underside looked. A load of heartache later, a ridiculous carry on with a body shop, and now in the hands of a solicitor.

My advise to you is walk away, don't be hasty one will turn up that will float your boat mate. I may be out of order but this is my opinion

It would be great Stagdad if you had a pic of the outriger (good and bad).

Moray...as mentioned I am not in a position to buy this Stag (or any Stag) yet, it was just for some info really mate. Is there a thread I can rewad about what you found in yours?

[Guest]

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Hello Ian.

I had read that was one place to check. How do you get the seat out to look - I can imagine the prospective sellers look of horror as I start to dismantle any car I go to see!!

[jleyton]

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piscean57 wrote:

Hello Ian.

I had read that was one place to check. How do you get the seat out to look - I can imagine the prospective sellers look of horror as I start to dismantle any car I go to see!!

The rear seat must be just about the easiest bit of a Stag to remove

Just lift up the front edge and pull forwards. It'ssimply a push fit (Until someone comes on here and tells me I'm wrong :?)

A genuine seller, with nothing to hide, shouldn't mind that, nor pulling back carpets as much as possible - maybe drawing the line at the glued pieces.

Cheers

Julian