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In my case, 2 years living in Ohio. I used to live in Omaha back in my early years, so I am no stranger to what kind of havoc exposure to salted roads can do to a car, but up until now never had a timeline. when I bought the current CQ, the fact that it had lived the majority of its life in Arizona made me overlook the first 2 years it spent in hell. ( read that: Ohio) This is what’s left of the left rear quarter apron. This is the rough cut after removing the lower skirt on the driver’s side.. Annnndd..this is what had become of the wheel well lip, all of which was filled full of body putty in an attempt to hide this mess. Ordinarily, this woulda/shoulda been on the passenger side of the car, due to its constant exposure of curb slush, but the passenger side of the car was “normal”. The tale of the tape best I can see/tell was that the car sustained a small amount of front quarter panel damage that caused a separation of the inner wheel tub from the outer quarter panel, and dude drove it through a couple of winters in Ohio that way. And give Ohio, Nebraska, Michigan, Indiana, or any other rust belt state two whole years to leave crud somewhere where a pressure washer will never get to it… Sweet home Alabama. fortunately for me is that I have modest metal fab skills, I feel confident that I can fix this….repair pics to follow.

I pulled the HVAC and replaced all the foam on flapper doors and I'm very glad I did. Everything I touched turned to dust so no way any of it would have sealed, plus condenser was very dirty.