Ok, so my car has had a few little rust spots pop up over the past 2 years, and I've finally decided to do something about it. Car needs paint so what the hell, I'll get rid of the rust before I start paint prep.

I really only noticed 3 area's on my driverside quarter area that were infected, and little did I know once I started grinding the paint/rust off, what I would find.

All I can say is OMFG...time to cut and weld

First pic after some sanding and droping rear bumper off mounts... I see bondo


Same thing different view


Started sanding the rust away from the top of quarter moulding, and the moulding pulled away from the car so I popped it off


All I can say is WOW WTF IS THAT ****? previous owner ghetto'ized it.


I was scarred to knock that **** out of there, but did it anyways and found this.


Another pic


So came to the decision, expletive it, cut the whole panel out, get a donor and weld it in. Just checking for more cancer.


And finally, marking what I'm going to cut out and replace. Quarter panel wise anyways.



Now my question is, how much excess metal should I cut to make sure the rust is gone? I've given myself about 1 1/2". Any suggestions.

Check back will be updating the rest, and progress pics of rust removal, new panels going in and prep and finally paint.

 

DAMN! Goodluck with it. Im glad I don't have to deal with the rust problems down in FL

 

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take your interior panel out and see if you can see what you can see from there. look behind your trunk carpet too. also, i would preferably cut along the straightest line on the car (not close to a body line) to ensure that when you weld it back up, filler, sand it that it comes out as smooth as possible.

good luck bro. that picture makes me cringe hah!

 

lol, thanks for the advice. I'll whip of the panels tomorrow and snap some pics and get some more opinions before the cutting wheel comes out.

 

So I got around to do a little more work on it today, nothing major but w/e. Found more rust, no big deal more metal and welding here and there. Started to disassemble the rear bumper area, and my rebar (or what ever its called) was rotted to ****, so badly I just pulled the whole bumper cover/bumper right off.

So here's a few more pics, not that anyone cares...

Inside the car looking at the quarters holes






Rear of car




LOL @ bumper


And whats left of the re-inforcement bar (other then whats still in bumper cover)



Yeah canadian winters take a toll, at least my floors are still mint.

So I'm going to start the other quarter tomorrow and I'll keep updating as I go along...like a little DIY type thing I guess.

 

Sheesh man. I thought the salt air in Hawaii was corrosive enough.

I usually cut between 3/4" - 2" around the damaged area. I also live
by POR 15 and/or epoxy primers on prepped metal.

Had some experience with DA's also. How is the metal around the
quarter glass also? Came across a few DA's where rust was forming
around quarter glass pinch seams.

Best of luck.

 

Its flawless around the glass.

As far as the por 15 is concerned (which I'm definitely going to use) do you throw it on the metal before you lay down the first primer coat? How many coats are needed of it?

Thanks

 

dang, crazy!

 

I usually put two coats. I let two days pass between coats.

....and yes I put on prepped bare metal.