point of no return?
03-29-2006 | 05:07 PM
#11
driver
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 7,600
Likes: 0
Originally Posted by AF
You guys probably don't deal with this too often, I don't think Oregon uses salt. But Honda's 1/4 panels rot from the inside out, I guarentee is inners are already rotted to shit.
That's why it always comes back there. I had a rothole on both 1/4 panels of the Civic, had both quarter panels cut off the car, cut off the visible rust from the outside of the panel, sand blasted the underside, acid dipped, bondo/fiberglass, rubber undercoated, sand/primed/sand/primed/sand/primed :eek3: and then painted.
And that my friends is the only way to get rid of Honda rot.
That's why it always comes back there. I had a rothole on both 1/4 panels of the Civic, had both quarter panels cut off the car, cut off the visible rust from the outside of the panel, sand blasted the underside, acid dipped, bondo/fiberglass, rubber undercoated, sand/primed/sand/primed/sand/primed :eek3: and then painted.
And that my friends is the only way to get rid of Honda rot.
03-29-2006 | 05:11 PM
#12
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 37,274
Likes: 0
From: Southern NH
Originally Posted by ED9man
So my inner rear quarters are probably rotted to shit if my outers are starting to rot?
It's an absolute pain in the ass, and it sucks. There's no way to sugarcoat it.
While the Vigor has only one tiny bubble of rust (smaller than a dime) on the passenger 1/4 panel (and hasn't grown in a while), when the car is redone this Summer, I'm pulling the entire rear subframe apart to inspect the floors, quarters and inners.
teg92 if you're reading this I'm doing this before the car is brought down, I wouldn't leave you with that kind of burdon
h:
Last edited by AcuraFanatic; 03-29-2006 at 05:13 PM.
03-29-2006 | 05:18 PM
#14
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 37,274
Likes: 0
From: Southern NH
Originally Posted by ED9man
So I need to buy new inners and have them welded in?
It figures that those plastic panels are the only ones I never pulled out and looked behind.h:
I want a clean chassis.
It figures that those plastic panels are the only ones I never pulled out and looked behind.
h:I want a clean chassis.
New outers are $700 a pop for each side, inners probably run you $400 (Civic anyway) a side, they have to be welded in, and are labor intensive.
The outers are usually always saveable unless you have a rothole a 5-year old child can crawl through.
03-29-2006 | 06:02 PM
#16
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 37,274
Likes: 0
From: Southern NH
Originally Posted by ED9man
Oh well, at least if I have it done I can have the car rustproofed so it won't happen again. I'd like to keep my chassis strength. h:
h:h: Luckily I've known my bodyguy forever and he owed me a favor so I lucked out big time.I ended up only paying $2,400 for everything (he didn't paint them). It may seem a lot it, but go to a good bodyshop and ask the labor charge of just a new outer quarter panel replacement.
Full price, including paint? I would have been in the hole almost $6,000.
