That rust looks pretty bad to me. It probably will only be a matter of time before it eats up the strut. I am afraid that the same thing would happen to me. I have a strut in mint condition, with the exception of the small left side strut leak. Almost would rather be without the car for 3 weeks and see if they can repair my old one. The car only has 46K miles on it and it has been taken well care of over the years.

Is Arnott taking care of you?