5th gen rust

C12HLL · Post by **C12HLL** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:03 pm

So how bad do you guys think this is?

I am trying to source a piece of a 1/4 panel to keep the shape and get it welded in.

Dbo · Post by **Dbo** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:09 pm

won't know till you start to strip back to good metal m8

but what you see on the surface is usualy about a quater of what is underneath

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:22 pm

Thats started eating the metal.

80 grit sand it back to metal and see whats what. You can then temporarily prtect the exposed metal with an underseal until bodyshop.

Post by **Donald** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:27 pm

Looks like mine, keep that area dirty and you wont see it so often

http://www.ludegeneration.co.uk/group-b ... t2493.html

Supermarine Blues · Post by **Supermarine Blues** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:35 pm

I had a rust blister on the flat bit & thought 'here we go'.

But I brushed off the paint with the Dremel & it was just a tiny stone chip gone bad & bright underneath - bit like the top one there might be.

Bottom one where it's folded is f ucked though, I'm almost certain.

How old is the car?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:38 pm

Oh dear another one

BigTom · Post by **BigTom** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:00 pm

Found this the other day at the bottom of the driver's side A pillar -

Any opinions on the best way of slowing that down? No way I can afford the inevitable windscreen out, new pillar job that is what it will probably need eventually.

PS, sorry for thread hijack, was going to post this anyway then saw this thread, can move it if you want.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:38 pm

You'll probably find that isn't as bad as you think it is.

Pull the windscreen surround trim off and if that rust penetrates under the screen and can't be sorted by just rubbing back, kurusting and re-painting what you can see, I'll be surprised.

Although saying that... Is that spalling on the windscreen I can see in the pic, in the same place?

BigTom · Post by **BigTom** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:42 pm

The windscreen is cracked in the same spot... funny one, goes from one edge in a circle back to the same edge. Just outside the wiper area.

Makes me wonder if the screen was badly fitted.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:45 pm

Or it could be rust underneath it having caused the stress.

Only way to check is to get that trim off.