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08-24-2001, 06:44 AM | #1 |
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HELP!! My car is rotting away!!
A little over a month ago, I noticed a rust patch on my driver's side rear quarter panel in the wheel well just above where the rear bumper cover starts. Well, yesterday I took a paint/rust remover wheel and went to work. After I got the top layer of paint and rust off, I started to notice that there was a hole under it. Its hard to describe, but the bare metal was shiny, in one part it was darker. I was thinking it reminded me of a cavity. I went pretty deep into the hole and was still removing black/rusty metal. I don't want to just fill this in with Bondo, as I'm sure it'll just rust through again. What are my alternatives to a body shop?? I didn't plan on painting the car for at least another year, but I don't want her to slowly rot away either.
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08-24-2001, 01:06 PM | #2 |
Tires Fear Me...
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Theres some stuff that my father uses on his old farm equipment called rust-mort. Its pretty expensive, about 30 bucks for 12-18 ounces...it takes very little though. You just clean the surface up, get off all the rust you can, rub rust-mort over the left-over rust, let it sit and cure for 2 days, then paint. It stops the rust from coming back through. We have done this to quite a few tractors and it has been 5-10 years and the rust still hasnt came back through.
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08-24-2001, 01:07 PM | #3 |
Tires Fear Me...
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You can get it at a body paint shop usually. Its hard to find it around here.. Your best bet is to get a phone book and call around..
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08-24-2001, 01:24 PM | #4 |
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Thanks Smokedawg. I'll look around for the stuff. I was a little skeptical about using these so-called rust converters but if you've had good experiences with Rust-mort, I'll give it a try.
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