Hi folks,

Having a poke around inside earlier I came across a small patch of rust under the back seat where the floor meets the wheel arch (passenger side).

Anyway, I gave it a scrape with a view to touching it up etc, but while I doing so I was able to poke a small hole through to the wheel arch itself.

So, Ive tidied it up as best I can and put a liberal coating of KURUST on it both from the inside and from under the wheel arch.

If I now fill this hole and paint it on the inside and waxoyl it under the arch etc, will it cure it do you think - or will it need cutting away and re-welding??

I hope its the latter, as is the only real rust on the car from what I can see??

Thanks,

PS The actual hole is the small darkest area in the centre of the dark patch on the photo. It might look worse than it is as the KURST stuff has made it all go black!?

Cut back to sound metal and weld in new. It's always worse than you can see and it can only get worse.

rust is like cancer, once its there it needs to be cut out and have new metal welded in.

Thanks for the replies folks.

Unfortunately I dont have the 'kit' to cut out the metal and do the welding etc, so do you have any idea how much its likely to cost to get it done professionally??

Also, is it the kind of job any decent garage could do, or do I need to go somewhere 'special'??

Sorry if they're obvious questions, Ive never needed to do this before!

Cheers.

I think you would need to go to a bodyshop for that, but as for prices i have no idea sorry.

this is an easy job if you have access to the said gear...do you have friends or relatives in the trade..as for getting it done profesionally this will cost...best of luck what ever you decide

I had it done, for 20 quid, cut out and weld in a new plate of metal, just that i need to paint it my self, but i am not worry about body work as is on the inside .

Outside just got spray by underseal.

Ming

best to remove the underseal and treat with a rust proofing primer then re-underseal

I noticed the waxoyl, paint and primer peeling away in my Cinqs rear arches too with rust showing underneath (towards the back, behind/under the indicators).

Assuming it is just surface rust would I be ok cleaning off the muck and wire brushing the area, than hammeriting it, then re-waxoyl later on? I'm not too fussed what it looks like as it's hidden away.

Assuming it's surface rust, wire brush back as close to bare metal as you can, rust proofing primer, hammerite, spray Schutz.

The myth is that hammerite works fine without a primer. Outside a laboratory, it doesn't most of the time.

fingers99 said:

spray Schutz.

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Damm good stuff that

fingers99 said:

Assuming it's surface rust, wire brush back as close to bare metal as you can, rust proofing primer, hammerite, spray Schutz.

The myth is that hammerite works fine without a primer. Outside a laboratory, it doesn't most of the time.

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Which probably also means rust remedy/krust/other after wire brushing it before putting the primer on, defeating the purpose of the hammerite in the first place. bah!

At least I know.