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How much have you spent on RUST repair?
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How much have you spent on RUST repair?
I'm curious what everyone has spent to fix rust problems. I've only had bin rust on one of my cars and all the other rust I've dealt with has been relatively small.
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I have about 460 into the Lincoln mig welder, 10 dollars into cutoff blades for my grinder, and about ten dollars in sheet metal so far. by the time I get seam sealer, undercoating and paint, all said and done it should be 500 out of pocket and a bunch of time. I love doing stuff like this though.
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From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada
I spent some on my first RX-7, but nothing on my current one.
This one has never been winter driven, and Garage stored
I just did some quick and dirty work around the Left Rear Wheel Well and the Door Corners. All said and done did not cost more then $200.00
This one has never been winter driven, and Garage stored
I just did some quick and dirty work around the Left Rear Wheel Well and the Door Corners. All said and done did not cost more then $200.00
Last edited by anthrax; May 12, 2005 at 11:51 AM.
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From: Orlando, FL
Rust!
Rather not talk about it. Since you asked. I have about over 6g's invested in rust repair and I still have some. I am totally unsure what to do at this point but spend more money. I have a uncle who is good at body work. He is going to finish up the rest of the job.
About $20 for bondo and paint, plus some scrap sheet metal and a Saturday afternoon fixed the bin rust on my 85 GSL. Here's some pictures of the repair and what it looks like after several months and about 15,000 miles.
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/479957/8
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i got my 85 gs 12A from this guy who left the keys in his car with a dead batt, some little punks tryed to seal the car but with not power they just made off with the key so he did not have any keys to start it. so it satt there in the sun for 3 years, the only rust was the right fender that some one backing in to and the paint was gone on the little courner/ the hatch drains where pluged and the watter seaped in a crack and rusted the back shock cover plates, and some just under that grill plate under the windshield watter satt there and inded up making some holes under the tar so it leaks near the ECU in bad rain but other then that no more then 1/4fot of rust. the car came from arisona, in 95 inported to noth of canada, and i dont think it was ever winter driven, now that i have it. it will nerver be any ways.
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From: Tulsa, Ok.
I haven't had to fix any rust yet. I have had the bins out, and there is a couple spots about nickle size that I need to repair. This will get done in a couple months, and will cost nothing but a little time. Car came from the DFW / north Texas area.
Here are some better pictures of what I my wheel wells used to look like. Pretty nasty. Currently I have all of that patched with fiberglass.
If you look in the 2nd picture you can see that a part of the lower link mount isn't really attached to anything lol. I still have to fix that properly.
If you look in the 2nd picture you can see that a part of the lower link mount isn't really attached to anything lol. I still have to fix that properly.
