So I been tossing the idea around of preping my car for paint to save myself some money. I decided to start by sanding down the rust bubbles on the top of the car to see whats underneath, and I found this.

My question is is this something I can make a trip to Autozone and fix this in my garage. I dont have any body work experience but I think I can handle this with some information.

What you think??

 

That's not just surface rust. You have a hole there. You need to get that down to metal and see how much rust you really have, and weld in new metal.

 

Thanks for the info. I think Im just going to start saving to take it to a body shop. I had this one body shop guy come look at the car and said $1800 to sand it down fix all rust spots with metal, realign my doors and prime & seal.


I dont want to get in over my head doing body work, I'm good at turning wrenches.

 

That's not a bad price for prep work(if done correct).then you can get a nice paint job from Macco for less than $1000 or so.

 

Actually that's what the body man said. He said for him to paint the car afterwards was going to be over $3000.