Rusty arch's fixed

[midge]

my friend works in a bodyshop on a kind of self employed basis, and so me and him took up the challenge of fixing my arch's, we did it in 3 days but we worked long hours, it would normaly take about a week i think, onto the pics -

Arch 1 -

rust cut out



plate welded



primered and masked for first base coat



re-flatened and masked for paint



ARCH 2 -

This arch wasnt realy rusty just had 1 or 2 small bubbles, but it had a crack in the paint all the way along where it had been repaired before so we decided we would just rub it down past the crack and paint it, so i was sat there rubbing it down on the crack when it would shift, so i kept going down, and thats when i realised it wasnt a crack in the paint, my heart sank when it became clear it was a crack in filler, 1cm worth across the WHOLE panel :( it had been bodged up with fibreglass and filler :(

The fibreglass/filler/metal falling apart



plate



primed/flatted/masked



painting





FINISHED







colour match



Yes i know theres compound everywhere but its been raining and ive been far to tired to do anything about it yet, ill give it all a good clean tommorrow, my friend can do this work on anyones car, he said a similar job for members off this forum will cost £200 all in, he will need the car for approx 1 week, if your interested, fire me a pm, but no time wasters please!!

[1fast6]

Did you not blend the door?

[midge]

in the pic where its falling apart you can see the ridge's in the filler :(

[midge]

why would you need to blend the door?

[richy]

nice work, ive gotta chop 1 of my archs back and weld a new section in too!

[Wobba]

Big improvement!

Mine need doing too :(

[eternalife]

why would you need to blend the door?

To avoid paint mismatch between panels - I am not sure if black shows it up as much as other colours do (Red is a complete nightmare).

[lewis_willy2]

apparently black doesnt need blending

[Allan]

you can actualy blend any colour on its own panel if you have a decent area to work with, you just need to keep adding more clear to it and thinning it down, keep reducing the colour it will give a gradiant and match by the time you meet the other panel ;D

[MatBrown]

you can actualy blend any colour on its own panel if you have a decent area to work with, you just need to keep adding more clear to it and thinning it down, keep reducing the colour it will give a gradiant and match by the time you meet the other panel ;D

Yes, but at the bottom of the passenger side there is no room to do this as the primer goes right up to the door.


Mat.