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Had a little look and the main bits seems to zinc inclusion and not the rust I have. Just means I'll be checking my van closely for the zinc bubbles now. Oh VW!!!

The zinc anodes on ships hulls are sacrificial. They don't stop corrosion, they are a more reactive metal than the steel hull, so they corrode before the hull does. They need replacing regularly.

Yes, I meant they stop the hull corroding. This was on the GCSE specification as an example of reactivity series.

...was welding, then worried about the heat damaging the floor, so pretty much ruled that out. Good point about galvanic corrosion (don't they put zinc blocks on metal hulls to stop corrosion?) Had not thought of riveting, but a possibility worth considering. Sikaflex a duct end cap is looking...

...VW isn't a premium brand. Not of the same order of magnitude but they never sorted the leaky windows.......they did their best to wriggle out of zinc inclusion, the EU6 emissions systems are dubious and they persevered with inadequate/dangerous H4 headlamps. I really hope you get this sorted...

Most VW OEM bolts tend to be geomet coated but bright zinc plated (bzp) will be fine. They are likely to be std metric size threads. Generally, it is only seatbelt fixings that are non metric on European cars - these are often 7/16 UNF. Being a hoarder I have a large box of surplus / recovered...

M6 x 1 bright zinc passivited

Many of the VW fixings have a geomet coating on them which is corrosion resistant and takes paint well. If you cannot get these I’d go for zinc plated and a squirt of waxoil (dinitrol, bilt hamber wax) once they’re in.

Very well said @mopardave ;)

...did the job or has started rusting through. If I remember correctly, I used some rust treatment (the type that turns rust black) then some zinc primer and a standard VW touch-up kit. I may have first rubbed it down slightly with a glass-fibre pencil? Anyway, I moved on to OEM style front...

In theory galvanising (zinc coating) should still prevent the steel from rusting, even if the layer of zinc becomes scratched, by sacrificial protection as zinc is more reactive than iron. I fact on ships they bolt sacrificial anodes of zinc (or aluminium) onto the hull. These are replaced after...

Thanks for that. I’ll try!

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...the scratch, but for stone chips I use a dremmel to remove as much as the rust without making the damaged area larger then I use: NO NONSENSE ZINC GALVANISING SPRAY Just shake up then spray some into a old lid (jam jar, whatever...) then use an artists fine tipped brush to touch up. Layer up...

Thanks for that @Howzat I’ll buy a tin for when I do my annoying rust spots on my silver van.

...up off the ramp in a bucket after 15 years or less. The last custom and transit have a 7 year corrosion guarantee so hopefully the newer will be zinc dipped too. Plus the overall body shape will be the same unless the change the outer shell but that's more expense . Its most likely front...

...VW mechanic may know the answer to my question. I just got all new VW original discs to fit to my T6.1 but they have come with what looks a Matt zinc finish over the faces along with the labels rather than shiny faces, so my question is does this have to be removed prior to fitting and if so...