FIAT DUCATO RUST 

Hi Branch. Glad you found it interesting. Beware of windscreen change. The fitters never reseal the screen properly - and the rust begins…🤔

Hi Graham. Not keeping to bad but fed up with the weather. First two days it’s been nice but still cold and yet still not made it to 19c here. Roll on spring😳

Hi Steve. Scuttle on the Ducato is such a bad design and if you have the screen replaced the seal gets even worse and water cascades into the engine compartment like a waterfall.😞

That’s good stuff but the old trick of engine oil mixed 60/40 with white spirit works very well and costs next to nothing. In the good old days🤪when engines splatted oil everywhere underneath an engine you never found any rust locally in the direct vicinity of the engine.and a rusty holed sump was unheard of. The mind boggles… Just saying🤔

Hi there. The adhesive rubber seal was obtained via AliExpress and it was a trawl through to find it but it’s there. The the one that fits onto the lip I got from a car breakers which was pulled off of a back door hatch car. Regards Peter

Hi Phil. Cant put link or photo on here for some reason😳 go to Alibaber and type in adheasive rubber strip for car windscreens and they will come up. - you want the 19mm wide x 2m size. Hope this helps you. For interest the adhesive used has been very stable and not peeled off in all the hot weather during summer. Regards Peter

Sadly I still can’t find it. I have sent you a message on FB Messenger where a link may work.🤞

@@brucepeter2007 Ok I’ve down loaded the Alibaba app. Apparently I have buy a minimum of 100meters 🙈

@@brucepeter2007 Amazon £10.99 arrives tomorrow. 19mm x 4m

As a pointer if it’s a diesel check that the immobilisation light goes out on the dash - if that goes out the check that the glo-plugs are getting 12v - the glo-plug light should also go out signifying that the relay is working. Other than that you will need someone local to have a look. Sorry I can’t help further. Regards .Peter

Hi all water serous problems with fiat docato water running down pipe onto top of gear box hence water getting into gear box. I have now extended the pipe to run out under the van .all the water off the roof goes down onto screen then down pipe on to top of gear box .very bad design by fiat. My advice is if you have one of these is extended pipe even put cover over top of gear box to stop any water damage allso change your gear box oil as a precautions ,if this is happening to mine then it is a high probability that this is happening to yours .this won't cost you anything to do but could cost you dearly if you don't. Hope this has been some help . 😊😊😊 happy camping 😊😊😊😊willemog.

​@@brucepeter2007hi on the 2002 model there is a fuel safety cut switch out by the battery box make sure that the plug has not come apart this stop your pump working hence won't start hope this will be of some help willemog. 😊😊😊

@@willismorgan8369 hi Willis. Not had that issue on mine but know it’s an issue on fiats. Thanks for your contribution. Regards Peter