In a message dated 9/27/99 5:59:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
EdGoodrow@AOL.COM writes:

<<   Does anyone care to talk
 about how to prevent rust problems for those of us who haven't had the
 pleasure of dealing with that problem?
  >>

yea.   dont drive it daily in the roadsalt :<)  seriously - if you live in
the salt belt, and you drive your van on heavily salted roads, daily, it WILL
rust, no matter what you do to try to prevent that from happening.  best
thing i can say, is keep your van clean, and waxed,  touch up any rust you
see forming before it gets to be a prob, (ie- dont let it go till "i get the
money to do it right" which usually never happens - you'd be surprised what
you can do yourself with a little can of touch up spray paint )  there has
been different ideas about spray on types of undercoating, but i've parted my
share of rotten vans that had been undercoated by Ziebart and related places..
or, just drive it till it rots out, then buy another one from california with
a blown engine,  do the swap, and you're good for another few years :<)
chris