I just noticed around my left headlight theres a tiny strip of rust, maybe half an inch by 4mm's wide just on the tip of the car, should i get this taken care of or will this spread rapidly??

 

Also, i looked at the inner rear wheel well and peeld back the rubber liner and noticed a bit of rust, tiny but its there, should i get this taken care of? and is it expensive to eliminate it?

 

Yeah, I gots the same problem on my right wheel well. I already had the rust on my other side fixed because it was bubbling throught the paint. I paid $400 cash to have the shop cut out the peice and weld in a new one and repaint the whole panel and coat the back again. That side is now spotless but on removing the rubber lining on the other side I found more rust there....damn canadian salt winters. still waiting on what to do.....was thinking of sanding and painiting myself since it is on the under side of the wheel well where you can't really see.

Anyone else dealt with this.........the 97s is getting old.....turning 10 in a year.

Peace.

 

i had rust before i painted and it was not pretty

just get it taken care of now

 

take off the rubber pinch moulding from the rear wheelwells....those things are evil I tell you !

 

for the rust on the right wheel well, that shit looks nasty.

 

take a grinder, clean off the rust. spacle and paint = >then $400

 

$400 or DIY, whatever you do, Musashi say: "waiting is bad" -- especially on a sharp clean blackie like that, nice ride

 

Grind, sand or cut out that body cancer soon. It will spread.

 

ill make a DIY soon on the cancer of our cars. i have some rust to take care of on my fathers ack.

 

its best to just cut it out..but if you grind and bondo it good it should last a good year, then just keep doin it like that..saves you money

 

grind it away to clean metal and use an epoxy primer to seal the metal

the reason why cars rust like a year after paint is becuase of shitty prep....epoxy primer isn't cheap....all these ghetto ass shops do is grind the metal on your car, have it sit in the shop a few days with bare metal....it starts to rust again, and they just shoot filler primer, sand and base/ clear

 

fuckin hate cheap ass shops

thats why im getting into autobody..so people can actually have a good body guy to go too..

 

You da man if you do this, cause I ain't really sure how to do this myself. car cancer sucks and I want to fix it soon.


Thanks and Peace.

 

everyone in the GTA has a rust problem

 

Gotta love winter and salt.

And people give me shit about why I haven't put my suspension, wheels, and hood on yet

 

 

naw..ur just a slacker

 

A slacker that works all the time to buy all the shit sittin on my shelves

 

My 97 3.0 has rust developing on the ps a piller next to the windshield. It has always been garaged and never seen snow as I live in Southern California.

I took it to a body shop and they want 500.00 to remove the windshield, repair the rust, replace the apparently defective window seal and replace the windshield. Does this sound reasonable?

Why the hell did it rust? grrrrr.

 

only a few stone chips on the hood near the grill that have started to rust a bit

rockers and rear quarters are still fine (knock on wood)

 

shop wanted to rip me 350 to repair a half dollar size chip in my hood, so 5 sounds 'bout right for all that trouble -- still... :thief: