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Old Oct 7, 2010 | 10:42 AM
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Body work

Looking for any opinions/experience on the best route to fix. It is the passenger side behind the rear wheel. Its kind of hard to explain, but it is pretty much the bottom of the spare tire well. If you look in the trunk you can see it best,but noticable if you look up behind the small gfx piece. I dont have experience with body work, but trying to look into... Thank you.
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Old Oct 7, 2010 | 08:47 PM
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Car: 86 T/A
Engine: 5.0 TPI
Transmission: 700R4
Re: Body work

Whats the problem with the area you described? Pictures would be a help if you want advice about repairing something.
And how can you be a member for 6 years and this is your first post? Lol... come on man!
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Old Oct 8, 2010 | 04:31 PM
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Re: Body work

[1piece@atime] Its a rust/rot hole problem, sorry forgot to write that. I was planning on getting a couple pics..soon hopefully(3 month old son keeps ya pretty busy lol) Yea guess Im a little shy with posts lol, although I have responded to some classifieds before... I usually search and browse a lot.=) Thanks for resonding.
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Old Oct 8, 2010 | 09:14 PM
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Re: Body work

These arent the best but maybe it gives an idea... the first one is looking in where the spare tire would be and the second(rust3) is looking at the bottom of the spare tire well from the outside/under the car. The corner whee the rot is is closest to the rear tire.
Attached Thumbnails Body work-rust.jpg   Body work-rust3.jpg  
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Old Oct 8, 2010 | 09:51 PM
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Re: Body work

First let me just say I HATE RUST! Fortunately for me, I guess, I live in an area where it isn't much of a problem.
The best rust repair is always to cut out the piece, or in your case pieces, and weld in new metal, or metal from another car. Forming new pieces yourself can be a bit of a challenge. But mostly it just takes time and patience and a little skill.
It looks like you caught it before it worked it's way to far up the outside of the car... thats a good thing.
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 08:16 PM
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yea i hate rust too. thanks for the info. Guess Ill have to find some time and learn to weld. Any recommendations on the gauge of metal to use to fix this?
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