Quote: I doubt that behind the seat area was painted by anyone else other than the factory. The trunk in that car is so poorly covered with painted it was probably noticed by QC and the just went in a sprayed with a spray bomb or a low pressure gun.
Hi Mauro, Your assessment might be correct. We don’t know why this was done (paint) but it doesn’t make sense that someone would spray just the brace and nothing else. The trunk has a lot of bare metal that has little to no flash rust at all. Whatever environment the braces were exposed to, the same conditions would apply or be similar for the other surrounding metal. I can't imagine that the previous owner(s) would have sprayed the braces but left so many other exposed bare metal areas if they were concerned with rust. The only flash rust is where the defogger “leaked” or blew moist air when it was turned on. You can see the pattern in the pictures where the air flow appears to have bypassed the mounting surface of the unit. The moisture/condensation probably accumulated in the corrugated duct work and blew out when the defogger motor was turned on. The braces are not close to the air flow pattern of the rear defogger so there would be no reason for that particular area to be rusted any more than the other (surrounding) bare metal areas.
