>> I think a lot depends on how close to the sea you live.
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I’m sure it has some effect, but 10 years or so I got rid of a 1984 BMW E30 Coupe (2 door saloon...) that spend most of its life on the NE coast, and then 4 years with me on the south coast. I scrapped it as it needed a lot of suspension work, and was only a 318 and (back then...) not worth much. But at 26 years old it was still solid. The only evidence of corrosion was on the trailing edge of the sunroof. Likewise, though more recently, I got rid of a 1994 Audi Cabriolet because of a failed heater matrix, but it too had no corrosion, though it was galvanised unlike the BMW. The Audi spend most of its life parked on the street in SW London. So I do think for any modern car to be scrap because of structural corrosion is a pretty poor show.
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