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Ah, got it. You think I am a 'troll' for some other manufacturer? Nope, just a pretty standard LR owner ****** off with the general crappy quality of Land Rovers - and being a Brit I am ashamed.
Curiously there is only ONE mention of this type of corrosion in this forum (http://www.landroverworld.org/threa...change-not-available.22572/page-2#post-124007) so people must be living in Never-Never land or something.
The effects of this type of corrosion are threefold.
1) Aluminium bits or connections too them (like on Defender door hinges or Disco roofracks) show a whitish powder.
2) Parts will rust for no reason. I had a rear bumper treated 20 times but the same area would always rust
3) Rust is not uniform. Since this is basically electric in origin, you can't see the electric lines of least resistance so you could have a hood where there are two or three or more small patches of rust for no reason and you can't fix them.
If owners woke up and complained more we might get better QA from LR but most people get fobbed off by ignorant garage mechanics. ANd of course there is a reason why other manufacturers don't go the mixed metal route.
and of course all of this is caused by some cute idea which was relevant in 1940 and no longer is