{"id":496,"date":"2006-06-06T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2006-06-06T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T15:54:28","slug":"rust-never-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/mini\/rust-never-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Rust Never Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MINI-rust.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MINI-rust.jpg\" alt=\"MINI rust\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MINI-rust.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MINI-rust-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rust&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rustneversleeps.net\/\">Rust Never Sleeps.<\/a>  Deep breath.  Flashbacks to Alfas of the past&#8230; Don&#8217;t panic.  If you&#8217;ve been following the threads on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northamericanmotoring.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=69139\">message boards<\/a> lately, MINI owners are in a tizzy because of a little rust under the door seal.  It&#8217;s amazing how far automobile manufacturing has come that a little rust now causes a big stir.  I remember how Alfas used to rust before they left the factory.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are a couple of places that are likely to rust.  Yes it&#8217;s covered under the extended rust warranty.  Now move on.  Here&#8217;s what you do: First, just pull on the seal and see if you have it.  There are two spots that seem to have missed getting painted in the overly-complex paint-dipping mechanism (to quote Dr. Evil), and a spot toward the front that seems to be a production gap.  Next, use a small brass brush to knock the surface rust off.  And finally, paint a dab of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.por15.com\/\">Por-15<\/a> to seal it.  Let dry and put your seal back on.  Be sure to check the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rust&#8230; Rust Never Sleeps. Deep breath. Flashbacks to Alfas of the past&#8230; Don&#8217;t panic. If you&#8217;ve been following the threads on the message boards lately, MINI owners are in a tizzy because of a little rust under the door seal. It&#8217;s amazing how far automobile manufacturing has come that a little rust now causes a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/mini\/rust-never-sleeps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rust Never Sleeps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini","tag-mini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}