Ok, i did this particular job with my dad a while back (about a month ago) and decided that i would post a thread on what i did and how we went about removing and painting the rust around the sun roof.
I removed all the seats and the majority of interior (rear seat and backrest, rear shelf, front passenger seat) to make way for A LOT of dust and welding spatter.
We then began by sanding back the paint to uncover all the rust, there was alot more rust than i actually thought when i first purchaced the car about 8 months ago.
cutting out of the rust using my weopon of choice : TINSNIPS!
I was hesitant at first to cut my car but once i got into it, was actually quite fun![[:)]](/images/smilies/smile.png "Smile [:)]")
The rust underneath this part of the roof pissed me off. that support for the sunroof has rotted half way along (under the roof panel) i pumped as much fish oil as i could into it, but the rust will be back after time...
Then to hold the bog in place of the huge hole we placed a metal plate underneath which I held from inside the car and dad tack welded it in place from the top. and yes, that is an ice cream container lid we used to fill up the other hole (plastic dont rust![[;)]](/images/smilies/wink.png "Wink [;)]")
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Then bogged all the holes up and waited untill it dryed.
sanding the dry bog back...
Unfortuantly while sanding back, debris was floting around and put light scratches in the final job, we thickly sprayed filler onto it and lightly sanded back when it was dry.
after spraying primer, two coats of acrylic opel metalic and one coat of clear the job came up nice, we sprayed to the top of each pillar and used cutting compound to blend the new colour into the old, but hopefully we'll get time to do the entire car at some stage during this year.
I removed all the seats and the majority of interior (rear seat and backrest, rear shelf, front passenger seat) to make way for A LOT of dust and welding spatter.
We then began by sanding back the paint to uncover all the rust, there was alot more rust than i actually thought when i first purchaced the car about 8 months ago.
cutting out of the rust using my weopon of choice : TINSNIPS!
I was hesitant at first to cut my car but once i got into it, was actually quite fun
The rust underneath this part of the roof pissed me off. that support for the sunroof has rotted half way along (under the roof panel) i pumped as much fish oil as i could into it, but the rust will be back after time...
Then to hold the bog in place of the huge hole we placed a metal plate underneath which I held from inside the car and dad tack welded it in place from the top. and yes, that is an ice cream container lid we used to fill up the other hole (plastic dont rust
)
Then bogged all the holes up and waited untill it dryed.
sanding the dry bog back...
Unfortuantly while sanding back, debris was floting around and put light scratches in the final job, we thickly sprayed filler onto it and lightly sanded back when it was dry.
after spraying primer, two coats of acrylic opel metalic and one coat of clear the job came up nice, we sprayed to the top of each pillar and used cutting compound to blend the new colour into the old, but hopefully we'll get time to do the entire car at some stage during this year.
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