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General underbody opinions?

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General underbody opinions?

atom0007 said:
I'm answering on direct painful experience on this one, having spent a lot of time under mine sorting it out.

I'm minded to agree with your welder at first glance, that looks fairly rotten, but as everyone else says, it's hard to tell from pics.

Here's the places you have to poke hard to see what's going on:

1. Inside sill edges where floor pan turns down and is spot welded on. Your underseal looks totally shot there. Probe all way along, from front to back of car.

2. Around all the rubber bungs, and d tabs. Again, your underseal is looking pretty worrying there.

3. All round the floor pans, rear in particular, but also fronts at sill edges.

4. Boot floor pan.

5. While you're in the mood, take the back wheels off and poke about the bodywork facing you, as well as the arch inner skins, petrol filler neck, clips, and body mounting point.

Also, use a Stanley knife to knick any bubbles. If they weep water, you're probably in trouble.

The thing about the punto factory underseal (probably like many other cars) is that it is quite rubbery, and looks passable when in fact it's had it.

Btw, forget using a hand wire brush, you'll be there for ever. Get an angle grinder with a twisted knot wire wheel on it. Just watch your car disappear....

Gloves, good goggles, ear defenders and I use a good quality p3 halfmask otherwise you'll have every facial orifice full before you know it
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yep they did but i pealed these back a bit to inspect the metal and its solid, so why would i be in troublee, and i have inspected those listed areas and all good,:)
 
I had a go at the underside of mine earlier in the year. Mainly round the jacking points. What surprised me was where the underseal had been damaged (by clumsy people with trolley jacks) if I got the heat gun on a gentle heat for a few seconds, suddenly water came oozing out from under the underseal! So I cut the underseal back until I got to the sold bits, and then I re-undersealed the exposed parts.I am sure I didn't get every part, but I worked my way down the side seams mainly.
 
pooroldcodger said:
I had a go at the underside of mine earlier in the year. Mainly round the jacking points. What surprised me was where the underseal had been damaged (by clumsy people with trolley jacks) if I got the heat gun on a gentle heat for a few seconds, suddenly water came oozing out from under the underseal! So I cut the underseal back until I got to the sold bits, and then I re-undersealed the exposed parts.I am sure I didn't get every part, but I worked my way down the side seams mainly.
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What wept more, you or the car?
 
atom0007 said:
Sorry benny, looking more closely makes it more worrying. Picture 2, looks rotten. Picture 3, bet you could get a screwdriver up into the spare tyre.

But as fingers says, fixable.
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the thing thats rotten is the underseal, ive poked numerous of times even with good force and solid, i wouldnt lie:)
heck ill even do a video of poking it at request:D
not even tried with rear and wont even try it because wouldnt wanna make it more worse than it is.,
this is a daily car and making it unsafe is a no go i enjoy being alive:)
 
If you can get a screwdriver thought it, it's knackered anyway. Don't worry about that, you can't make it worse.

As i say, get a grinder and aggressive wire brush on. If its like mine, you'll see small holes open up, then turn into big holes in front of your eyes.
 
atom0007 said:
If you can get a screwdriver thought it, it's knackered anyway. Don't worry about that, you can't make it worse.

As i say, get a grinder and aggressive wire brush on. If its like mine, you'll see small holes open up, then turn into big holes in front of your eyes.
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dont have a grinder nor will i buy one as im saving up so ill stick to my wire brush despite itll take longer that way, but end result will be worth it right?:)

do you mean where spare wheel is or where the bubblew are?:confused:
 
See you in 2015 if you try to do it by hand with a wire brush....it's just not aggressive enough to really highlight the problems.

With regard to spare wheel area, have a good poke at the areas that look rust stained. Use a pointy screw driver rather than a flat blade.
 
atom0007 said:
See you in 2015 if you try to do it by hand with a wire brush....it's just not aggressive enough to really highlight the problems.

With regard to spare wheel area, have a good poke at the areas that look rust stained. Use a pointy screw driver rather than a flat blade.
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wicked see you in 2015:D probably wont even be on this forum by 2015 comes as this car is going next year:D:D:D:D:D:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
yes, grinders are relatively cheap i know this, but for one i aint breaking into my new car fund;)
the car is solid, why wont anyone believe me?:banghead:
 
seeing as everyone has now stopped!
i like to repeat myself:D
i get paid on friday should be a tasty payday too, considering ive done overtime recently!
from that lovely note, ill get on the job of restoring my underside(y)
at the same time i wish i never posted this now cause its got out of hand too quick:bang:
while i still respect everyones views and comments its time i got busy with my car(y)
thanks!:devil:
 
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