Replacement Floor Pans
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The only thing holding the rust together is the undercoating. The car has been closed up and in storage for the past year or so and i think the last time i was in it, it was raining. I ripped out the carpet and found this, it was still wet and all. there is no rust in the surrounding area leading to it. the only thing i can really thing of is the body seam where the rocker meets the floor, that joint might have been leaking and water was drawing itself in.
Restored, patched up, whatever. You have to cut the rust out, simple as that. If you don't want to rivit it, weld it in.... but there is no such thing as a replacement floor pan... maybe for an old American car, but not for an old BMW. No-one will be judging what you have between the undercoating and the carpet, so you have to do an old fasioned patch job. Either cut the floor out of another E30 (15yearold metal at best) or you can use brand new sheet metal. It looks like quite the mess, but it shouldn't be that much of a problem. If you can cut that rust out, and tell me you're not hacking it up, I'll eat my shirt. That's part of "restoration". Joseph didn't fix his sunroof rust with replacement parts. It's not always that easy.
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