Well the 92 sedan im looking at has a lil bit of rust around the rear fender wells, do i just need to get whole new rear quarter panels? or how do i go about fixing it? and can i do it myself? and if not how much do shops usually charge? sorry for all of the questions, but im trying to find this out ASAP, b/c i may be picking this car up tomorrow for 1,000$. Thanks everybody.

 

take it to a body shop and ask, they should be able to tell you just by looking at it.

 

is their an easy way to do it myself?

 

if u want to keep the car get the rust cut out,and new metal welded in its place

this will cost you about 1100 canadain for both sides if the rust is fairley bad

 

you can do it yourself but you dont know how so you dont have the tools. You are looking at 100 for the grinder 100 for a sander 150+ for a paint gun another 100 in paint plus 50 to 100 in materials. I doubt you have the needed skills to sand it smooth enough to paint. Take it to a body shop. Call PTAP in Coulumbus Gerogia and see who they recomend, or talk to your local speed shop, estimates are usually free.

 

just tear off the rust and keep the hole there...nice air vent...hehe j/k....u dont need whole quarter panel...even One day Paint can fix that in a day

 

I had mine fixed on my 92 hatch, what a ****** horror story!!!!!
I got an estimate for 850 bucks to fix both sides. They said that they would cut the rust out and weld in new pieces. Well, when the time came to get my car back, It looked great BUT about a week later I started noticing some little bubbles back in the same spot. I brought it back and they said that they didnt put new metal in but instead they cleaned out the area really good and put some epoxy sealer in and filled in the holes. They said they would fix it again for free. A week later I got my car back again, they said they found some tiny pinholes in the metal and that they took car of them and it should be fine now.
God dammit, I ended up taking my car back three times for them to fix it. Each time the rust would come back in about a week. I said **** it!!!! My fenders are still bubbling out and I just can justify spending 750 bucks a piece on quarter panels, not to mentioned the labor to get them put in. I probably just gonna sell the damn thing now. Why dont EK's ever have this problem? Wait, I know, Honda waited 15 years until they finally decided to do something about the rear quarter panels in just about every model of car they make!!! Sorry guys, Im just venting, 96 and up models dont have this problem.

 

sand it down, than paint it

 

Thank you very much for all of the help guys.

 

Ther is a comany called corrosion x, we use thier products at work (avatar). I am not sure ifthey are available to anybody else butitis worth a shot. With it you just clean the area and spray it with the Corrosion x. It works great on aluminum but I have neverused it on steel. After it driel Lightly sand it and then paint. It takes a while to dry. Like 8 to 10 hours.
once again.
Good luck,

 

my friend just got a quote for 2 grand to replace the 2 quaters.

your better off buying another one from down south

 

Thanks once again everybody, and thanks madhatch for the product name and info also.

 

I need to do this on mine, I was thinking I could just use rust neutralizer behind the area I have to cut out, epoxy or fiberglass in from behind and smooth it out with a little filler,sand paint-sand paint-sand paint till it was smooth. Has anybody done this? What stuff did you use. I also considered maybe welding in metal but that would be pretty hard. Damn why couldn't honda make the quarters out of carbon fiber or something?

 

EK's rust too, i have seen it.

 

Theres a good chance the rust will come back.. You need to get it cut out if you don't want it to come back anytime soon

*has done bodywork before*

 

me and my friend just did it like 3 months ago. It was completly sanded through. it looks nice even thought the paint on the car is off(I had to use his extra blazer paint for his winter car) its been 3 months and no bubbles yet. We put a bunch of that rubber undercoating on the back of the panel. Hope it holds up for a while.