I was just curious today when i was fooling around with the jeep and i took the carpet back on both the driver and passenger side. The passenger side had minimal surface rust, and the driver side had NO rust, but it had a aluminum foil looking pad stuck to it. maybe 1foot wide by 1.5 feet long.

So my question is. for a 2000 xj with 225k is the minimal surface rust normal? and is there anything i can do to prevent it from rusting anymore?
and is the sticky looking aluminum pad factory.

Thanks for the help in advance.

 

Had the same problem with my 95' cherokee, rust is normal with the floorboards happened in both of my old cherokees... unless its a southern jeep. (i got lucky with the new one)

anyways, you can buy rust-primer paint from your advanced auto/wal-mart, etc and it helps prevent the rust from spreading when water, mud,whatever gets in/on it. I had to do this to my 95', paint it and then reweld sheet metal to give it some surpport.

and i believe the sticky aluminum padding, is basically a "heatsheild".
I've seen some xj's have it on their catalytic converter, and near the
transmission to prevent the metal from getting extremely hot. I removed
the carpet from my XJ, it too has it. <-- That's my thought!

Hopes this helps!

 

Oh oh got ya. thanks buddy

 

My 96 with 231,xxx on it was rotted. Granted im in northern ny where they salt the roads religiously but it was bad on both sides. I was able to cut up an old stop sign and put it under the carpet on both sides as a temporary fix until i can get so time and decent wear thee to cut the floor out and weld in new sheet metal