Rust - what do you make of this?

[Gripped]

The rust dosn't look to bad and with the right attention can be sorted but I think at £5800 it's overpriced but that's only my opinion

I've seen a fair few 10+ year old Bongos for sale with rusty arches, I thought it was pretty much the norm! Some dealers are selling for £11k for converted ones on a P/R plate.

Ours has got the start of it, but the rest of the van is in pretty good nick for it's age.

[vanvliet]

Sometimes a mans gotta - -
- following my previous post I had a closer look at my smartypants waxoyed arches and there are a couple of brown spots appearing Looks like external paint penetration rather than rusting from underneath

The only way I ever got rid of rust on cars / bikes was to either cut out the rusted area to good metal and / or sand - beadblast to bite into the metal and remove the lot -often leaving little metal! Anything else just held back the rot. Most garages wanting to shift cars simply cover up the problem for a few months by which time any 'gtees' are void

[Sharkojoints]

Well, today's delight was not only rusty but accident damaged.

A fine spattering of rust inside the o/s arch, as well as plenty of brown in evidence underneath. N/s arch had plenty of evidence of fresh paint and filler - owner eventually admitted he had hit a bollard a couple of months ago. Impossible to tell what had been covered up by the filler and seam sealer.

The vertical seam halfway along the n/s sill was rusty too, with a scab of paint / filler flaking off and evidence of a smear of filler along the seam on the underside of the sill.

This isn't the norm, is it? This one was unconverted and up at £4200 - am I being unrealistic?