pauljmcnulty
Active member
My car goes in today for the (finally authorised at last) accident repair from September. They've agreed a new wing, and associated paint.
Whilst it's in the bodyshop, it's going to have the rusty areas replaced, and essentially a full respray. As a regularly-used car that lives outside it's got scratches, chips and dinks on every surface, along with the usual small patches of rust in the areas like the hatch pins and spare wheel well, that mean there's really no convnient point to stop painting!
The worst bits are, of course:
The OS front wing
The NS front wing. This had been recently repaired when I bought it, but the rust came through within months. Why they never treated it after repairing it I don't know! [:'(]
The OS sill, looks pretty OK from inside but not nice from the outside.
NS sill is the same.
OS rear arch is terrible. It was this side that needed welding for the MOT as well, so strangely it's the wrong side that's suffered more. Normally it seems to be the NS that picks up all the muck from th side of the road over the years.
What's surprising is that this car was very good four years ago, apart from the small repair to the NS wing that was the only rust visible. The sills were fine inside, and waxoyled, so hopefully they aren't going to be a nightmare underneath. It does show how fast rust progresses on a car that lives outside, and gets used all year round. [&o]
Whilst it's in the bodyshop, it's going to have the rusty areas replaced, and essentially a full respray. As a regularly-used car that lives outside it's got scratches, chips and dinks on every surface, along with the usual small patches of rust in the areas like the hatch pins and spare wheel well, that mean there's really no convnient point to stop painting!
The worst bits are, of course:
The OS front wing
The NS front wing. This had been recently repaired when I bought it, but the rust came through within months. Why they never treated it after repairing it I don't know! [:'(]
The OS sill, looks pretty OK from inside but not nice from the outside.
NS sill is the same.
OS rear arch is terrible. It was this side that needed welding for the MOT as well, so strangely it's the wrong side that's suffered more. Normally it seems to be the NS that picks up all the muck from th side of the road over the years.
What's surprising is that this car was very good four years ago, apart from the small repair to the NS wing that was the only rust visible. The sills were fine inside, and waxoyled, so hopefully they aren't going to be a nightmare underneath. It does show how fast rust progresses on a car that lives outside, and gets used all year round. [&o]
