Hi guys, apparently living in Manitoba has problems(like i had to tell you that) but the winters have been rough on my car and it seems that my driver side rear fender has been rusted through!! i've been to a couple shops for repaint estimates but the verdict would be paying out more than my car is worth i thought that maybe i could just cut out the rust and weld in a repair piece? good idea? tell me your thoughts and where i get something that would work!! please and thank you!!!

 

Ouch, thats the quarter panel and huge, any repair that looks decent will cost... I mean go to a good body shop and it could be cheaper to fill it in or even fiberglass. Not sure on that though. Could always get the new panel.
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And then have it painted....

 

DO NOT JUST FILL IT! Sorry brock don't mean to contra dict what your say but the only way to stop rust is to remove the infected metal it is just like cancer and will continue to grow if you just fill

 

it will continue to grow and pop any body filler or fiberglass that you put in there... i can't sew the extent of the damage becuase i use my phone to post and the pic is tge size of a fingernail but

 

your best bet is cut out and weld in new

 

thanks guys. yeah a body shop worker told me it was probably pin-hole rust (he had just done a monte with the same problem a few week earlier) so filling it wouldn't do any good in the end. if a new piece gets welded in what are the chances of it warping?

 

it will most likly warp if u just replace the rusted area & so u gotta use filler on that, but if u replace the whole panel it wont b/c there just spot welded in either way if the body shop is good ull nvr beable to tell, only down side on just fixing the damged area is later on many years from now the filler may crack but if done right it wont, i fixed my whole car im my garage & no one can tell so a body shop should do good work

 

you woukdn't seam weld it like most weld you woukd do you basicly haveto take your time and it's baisicly spot wekding alone tge peice...do some searches on panel replacemeny and read up on it

 

i'll dig throught all my autobody type articles i have collected from magazines ans see if i can come up with a more difiniative awncer

 

thanks guys!!