It is even worse more front, it is rusted full height and it's chipping off even from that inner section, but I haven't got pic from that now.



I don't know about those inner sections, as those are rusted quite well at front area, is it still repairable or worth to repair?

edit: New pic from front section that is worst:

jtbo wrote:It is even worse more front, it is rusted full height and it's chipping off even from that inner section, but I haven't got pic from that now.



I don't know about those inner sections, as those are rusted quite well at front area, is it still repairable or worth to repair?

edit: New pic from front section that is worst:

That doesn't even look bad, shouldn't cost too much if you can find a good welder. Less if you have your own welding equipment.

Sills are quite easy, inner especially, because as long as the welds are solid and metal is "healthy", it doesn't have to be totally smooth and original looking, like body panels have to. "Cut and paste" (paste preferably with a welder... not bondo ).

Fuse wrote: That doesn't even look bad, shouldn't cost too much if you can find a good welder. Less if you have your own welding equipment.

It does not look bad, but it seem to stick quite well, I have only one 'neekerintukka' left and I don't think that is enough to get all that out.

I hate that need to take front fender off so that I can access to front section properly, it is not very easy as inner fender is glued in with Katepal

Also problem is that there is really really long time since I did any of this kind of things and haven't done a lot, so it is like doing first time, rather annoying really, if I could get 360 lifted enough high, I would do that instead, but maybe I practice with french crap and stop dreaming of fixing 360 anytime soon.

If I would be just 10 years younger, would be lot easier

I have welding machine, but no gas, it has gasless wire, so not the best and I'm afraid that I will run out of wire, it is only 1kg or something like that.

All supplies I need to get by bicycle from 30km away, that is bit of problem. Maybe need to do online order or something like that.

If I weld all cars, then there would be at least some experience gained, 240, 360 and french crap, which was meant to be car that would not require any welding, pfft.

thats nothing! mine was all crumbled away, just cut out and replace will be a days job if you have all the tools to do it at the ready (and not have to bodge stuff to get it to bend/cut like i did )

Has been raining for around 3 weeks now, there has been few days with more or less without rain, but at least during nights there has been rain, it is quite bad really, also very cold for this time of year.

Need to get this crap fixed for the Wednesday as if it goes past that I have to pay 78 euros instead of 10 euros from re-MOT...

Took a long, long time, but finally managed to get it done, not really lot of work, but always either raining, too hot, flu, too tired etc. Anyway it is finally somehow patched, it is not pretty, probably it will not hold water either, but good part is that if water enters it leaves out also. There was ton of rust at inner parts which I did not even touched, also there were soft spots but front fenders cover those, what you can't see is not there, right?

Put at least 5mm of sticky bitumen to cover my work, black, stiky, really messy, nobody likes to touch such stuff, so I hope MOT inspector will no either, who knows if there is spot that I did not found out.

Tomorrow is MOT time and at Monday I would need to be far away already, so I hope MOT will pass as it will be over 50 euros worth of tax free income if I can use my car at monday

MOT inspector told me that car has nothing wrong, good to go next 5 months...

Great stuff Jani, glad to see things are going well again

Chris_C wrote:Great stuff Jani, glad to see things are going well again

No quite like so, you see while I was going to MOT office, I drove trough post office and collected new sat nav, installed it on screen and drove happily for bit under 15 minutes, there was bump on road and nav falled down, now there was also temp meter attached to dashboard with sticky velcro (glue on one side, velcro on another), sun had soften glue so it falled down too and brand spanking new sat nav landed right into sticky glue, so now new nav has glue mess on screen probably permanently, glues is very sticky and not getting out at all, just my luck, if anything is possible to go wrong, it will.

Should I rebadge myself as Murphy?

Dude, you really are due some good luck now.

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