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Taking advice from an Jag expert, I've just dug through the underseal on the apparently notorious front floor pan reinforcing panels to find a couple of 2" holes rotted through to the inside ('98 model). It's a poor production fault to fit this double skin metalwork with no preparation. If the dealers knew about it a shot of Waxoil at every service would have prevented this. The rest of the bodywork looks fine.

There's no comeback under the perforation warrnty being only six years. As it's non-structural and localized I'm inclined to cut it out and bond an alloy plate over it (when it stops raining!) Welding would involve stripping the carpets, etc

Any comments on costs or techniques for a proper repair?

Peter H

Had mine done both sides last August by Arun, new plates welded in and undersealed for the princley sum of £150

Paul,

Thanks, for that kind of money I'll let the experts fix it. I've also just had a price of £250 which is still better than me crawling under it with filler.

Now I've just got to look for the other rust spots they mentioned...!