The hack jobs you find in used cars! :^P
 

WELL. This evenin' I decided to try to repair my rear driver's side "door" panel, for the vinyl section was popping out of the plastic. I had glued it a few times, but came back off. SO...I took out the entire panel to try to fix it. It's un repairable, so I have to get a new one. But I digress. That's not what this is about! It's what I found BEHIND the "door" panel. A HUGE gaping hole, patched with ye old duct tape! It seems, that when the "crunch" on the outside happened, they dum dum owneh decided to take off the "door" panel (breaking it in the meantime), cutting a hole in the car, and hammering the dents out! Unbelievable! Anywho, here ah some peektures!!!!!! :^D

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Hammer marks!
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Thats nothing. I got a chrysler van in the shop to fix the rusted out rocker panels. They had been fixed once before and they rusted out again. Once I started picking at the rust I found a chunk of paper towel sticking out. I started pulling out the towel and found more. By the time I was done I pulled enough paper towels out of the rocker panel to fill up the trash can. They stuffed the rusty rocker panel with paper towels and then bondoed over it. I wonder why it rusted out again?

RoFl! :*P

Wow, just wow. I've run into a few surprises like that myself over the years. LOL

Gotta have something for the bondo to stick to, its too expensive to fill in a whole rocker. Ha.

Wow! Kyle. Looks like the previous owner used the jaws of life to fix the car. After seeing that, I'd be afraid to stick my hands into any tight spaces in your car. You might come out with one hell of an injury!

OK these hack jobs I did myself as a kid (sorry no pics)

1) fixed a single barrel carb in a 62 comet with a tomato paste can. I shoved the can down the barrel to fix something forget what

2) On a 65 mustang fixed a leak under the cowel vent with a toilet seal wax ring

3) On 62 comet fixed floor boards with plywood and tar. Dad always said if I didnt die in a wreak the splinters would get me

LOL I like #2.:thumbsup:

I somewhat patched the hole with sheet metal, and silicone. What I didn't have enough for I finished with tape like before. Hey, I put the brain into it, lol.

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I went to salvage, and found a replacement panel. However, it was broken the same was as my old one, but repairable. Cost me $5.

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And installed!

I've seen lots of rust holes filled with Great Stuff Foam....

My daily driver, a '94 Grand Am recently developed a small hole at the firewall (I found it searching for why the passenger side carpet was becoming a swimming pool). Being a '94, with over 200,000 miles, I decided it was not worth the hassle to remove all the stuff in the way on the firewall.... Instead, I went for a cheap-o band aid.... I broke away the rust and sucked it up with the shop vac, then I used half a tube of silcon caulking to fill in the hole, a piece of plastic bag to help hold the chaulking (and create "shield" so I could up the padding and carpet back in place). End result, dry car and chaulking to my knowledge does not promot rust.

If this was a newer car, that I had higher expectations on how long I'd continue to own it or it was a collector vehicle, this would have been handled differently.