Given that we are where we are, i.e., love theses cars but the feckers keep cracking, and that BMW offer a "fix" that we either; can get but are sceptical of, don't want, or, as in the Swiss guys situation, can't get, what does someone like Alx do?
Is a reinforcement plate such as the Reddish kit a bearable (no pun intended) comprimise? I'd have thought yes, but only with a structural foam intection to distrubute the load more softly through the plates into the body. Structural foam in itself is a good idea, the sandwich structure formed offers excelent properties, but only an option if it lasts and does not promote corrosion. When used in OEM design from the onset, the car body gets properly dipped in for corrosion protection, something we don't have the benifit of.
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Originally Posted by The Gorilla
As for ripping out distorted boot floors and re-welding in new ones, well ye olde Roost monster will be having a field day, even more so with anything synthetic filling the boot floor skin voids, as any fucking retard knows that when a cold surface, the boot floor skin meets a warm surface, expoxy filler or whatever, then hey presto, its called condensation and guess what its water, and water on internally welded metal makes for a loverly feeding ground for the Roost monster.
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Is the foam itself going lead to that more corrosion? Maybe a little, but i'd have thought the main issue is the new welds them self / areas of the body where the original factory protection coat has been disturbed. i.e, foam or no foam, condensation will eventually get in an rust will start. If so, is enough being done in either the BMW cut-out-your floor method, or Reddish reinforcement plate method to corrosion protect welds / exposed metal on both sides of the weld?
Those who have had the BMW goodwill fix do have a life time guarentee, but I think we'd rather not ever have to use it.