Rust in front rail

[wagon_vs]

Hey guys, i have just noticed that my front chassis rail (i think that is what it is) is rusted pretty badly. I have owned this car for less than 2 years, so I don't really know how this happened.
Is this fixable, and if so, about how much would it set me back?
Cheers
Phil

[hako]

Post a picture to show exactly what you mean as it could just be surface rust. It's only a problem when it penetrates the steel and leaves a hole.

[James39]

Dirty coolant can make things look rusty, maybe there is a leak in the cooling system?

[wagon_vs]

There are no holes, but it didn't look great to me. I also have some other pics of some rusty spots in my car, what would you advise I do about them?

Front Rail









Under Bonnet





Sorry if the pics are too high res, or don't work, it's my 1st time uploading pictures to a forum

[wagon_vs]

bump, what should I do?

[wagon_vs]

bump it up

[wagon_vs]

anybody care to tell me how bad this is and what my next course of action should be?

[James39]

Looks like a leaky raidator had caused that or its been near salt water... Only thing anyone could think of is to clean it up, mostly looks like surface rust

[wagon_vs]

Alright that sounds better than I first expected. If I angle grinded it as well as I could, then covered it in rustkill or something similar, then primed and painted, would the rust come straight back? The radiator I have at the moment, which is the one that came on the car, does not leak, so this must have been a problem from quite a while ago.

[hako]

I'd just wire brush it and also have a dig at the deeper bits with a flat screwdriver. Then apply some rust stop...Ferropro or the one from SuperCheap, wait till it dries and then either brush paint it or use a spraycan to make it look new. It's certainly not structural....just cosmetic really.