Hallys Trop Green GTi
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my thoughts are its life preservation. so no need to weld up all three skins. once the rot has eaten them, its no longer a trap so covering up the inner arch is sufficient.
i just done ricks last week. checked mine tonight and they are solid on outside of the car
Not if you leave the inner layers rusty though, they'll just rot more and more? If you weld it back horizontally though it won't be a trap and will still brace the plates.
its taken 15 years to get bad. its got another 5 years on the internal plate by my reckoning.
people just need to regularly pressure wash the batcave up there to get the shit out.
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Seriously though it is a matter of filling up the hole left by the rust really. You'll never get rid of it all anyway as it's in the joints between the wheel arch, inner quarter panel and inner arch.
Good repair that Simmo.
I had a look up there the other day wheel off there is some rust up behind there however its not coming through where the seatbelt mounts are which is odd! The Plastic cover just fell off in my hand and a lawns worth of soil fell out on the floor!
My next car gonna have no fucking rust at all eeek
Not any more, but yeah you could see the wheel from the boot on the offside arch.
Arches are getting fully undersealed shortly.
What you didn't see in the pictures is after the plate was welded in, i used nearly half a tub of bead sealant (the same stuff that the car has from factory) slapping it up into the crack and on the new plate and then on top of that, tigerseal as Hally had kindly brought some, otherwise i just generic black silicone like you can see on top of the welds on the inside. That will stop any newly exposed metal rusting quickly.
Once it's gone off properly i'd ideally like to apply even more then underseal on top again. But Hally was only here for one day so it's something he can choose to do.
Also as most of us are aware now, it's important to get that jet wash up into that area regularly. Only large deposits of salty grit will make it rot through quickly. There's one other area the mera rusts badly but Hally's was solid and that's in that little corner at the front of the rear wheel. Micras and Sunnys do the same. Micras probably being the worst culprit.
Once it's gone off properly i'd ideally like to apply even more then underseal on top again. But Hally was only here for one day so it's something he can choose to do.
Also as most of us are aware now, it's important to get that jet wash up into that area regularly. Only large deposits of salty grit will make it rot through quickly. There's one other area the mera rusts badly but Hally's was solid and that's in that little corner at the front of the rear wheel. Micras and Sunnys do the same. Micras probably being the worst culprit.
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