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MetroMPG · 11-01-2019, 09:28 AM

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Rear wheel wells can be a problem, but probably only in the rust belt:

As the factory rubberized undercoating ages & dries out, it cracks and traps water, creating the above. That's my 2000 Metro. Despite that rear wheel well disaster, the front control arm area is near mint (for a rust-belt car) because it was regularly oiled.

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