This Is What Happens When You Stick Your Phone Underneath a Ford Ka and Hit the Shutter Button

"KirkyV" (KirkyV) 03/22/2016 at 12:54 • Filed to: None

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It’s a two-tone: brown and blue.

CalzoneGolem > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 12:58

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It looks like it is well on its way to becoming completely brown.

KirkyV > CalzoneGolem 03/22/2016 at 13:01

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Oh, if it wasn’t for the welding it gets every year to pass the MOT, it’d look like this by now:

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:04

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What is MOT? Where are you, approximately? Looks like it must snow there.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:04

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Ugh. Every year. What exactly do you have to weld?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:05

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These are the worst modern car for rust I’ve ever seen. Shame because they’re reliable A to B cars otherwise. Hell I'd consider a sportka if it wasn't for rust worries.

djmt1 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/22/2016 at 13:12

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A test in the UK to decide whether or not your car is a death trap. Very little snow in the south of the UK but a lot of rain.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:14

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Let me guess, it rusts like hell in the usual places, being near the fuel filler door, the rear wheel wells and the end of the door sill/side skirt area?

CalzoneGolem > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:16

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Wait, isn’t that a Lancia Beta?

Cé hé sin > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:20

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Hasn’t the Ka rather a reputation for becoming lighter by the replacement of steel by rust?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > djmt1 03/22/2016 at 13:21

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Like the TÜV in Germany? When I lived there in the late 80s, I several times had to have patches welded over rust spots on my Audi. I think the Germans hated that so many American soldiers were driving POS cars.

KirkyV > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 03/22/2016 at 13:21

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Thankfully, the garage my sister gets it MOT’d at does the welding. I think the main thing’s the sills.

Cé hé sin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/22/2016 at 13:22

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Sadly, you don’t need snow for rust to set in. Damp weather will do the job just fine.

Ask me how I know...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 03/22/2016 at 13:25

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You said your screen name is Irish, right? Is there a specific dialect?

KirkyV > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/22/2016 at 13:26

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Yearly road safety test. And we don’t actually get much snow—there’ll be a little every couple of years, but nothing regular. Ford Kas just rust like nothing else. My older Peugeot’s completely rust free.

KirkyV > Cé hé sin 03/22/2016 at 13:27

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Yup. It’s basically a Lotus at this point.

KirkyV > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 03/22/2016 at 13:29

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Same! I actually really like the look of the SportKA, and they’re supposed to be great fun, too—I just couldn’t put up with the rust. Same thing keeps me from ever considering old Pumas and such, even though I’ve always liked them.

KirkyV > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 03/22/2016 at 13:30

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All but the surprisingly rust-free fuel filler.

. . > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:37

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Impossible!

KirkyV > . . 03/22/2016 at 13:39

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It amazes me, too. Not even a teeny bit of bubbling paint.

. . > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:45

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A Ka with no rust around the filler cap is like an early Mondeo without a cracked rear bumper - an entirely mythical beast.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 13:52

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My brother owned a VW Fox that had Brazilian sheet metal. Lots of rust.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > KirkyV 03/22/2016 at 14:00

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amateur

Laurence > . . 03/22/2016 at 16:32

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Oh my God yes! I swear the bumpers on 1st and 2nd gen mondeo said came with bumpers made of paper; it's probably been 10 years since I noticed one that was intact

Cé hé sin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/22/2016 at 17:18

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Not exactly, no.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 03/22/2016 at 17:53

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Like Gaelic?

Cé hé sin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/22/2016 at 18:39

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Foreigners refer to both Irish and Scots Gaidhlig as “Gaelic”. The two are to an extent mutually comprehensible.

Frank Grimes > KirkyV 03/23/2016 at 00:53

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I want one of those. We never got them in the USA and it makes me sad.