goodie wrote:
As for the pictures that you have put up , looking at the nasties that are beneath the paint, i would say that the prep work that was done previously was pretty ordinary .
If it were my car , i would get stuck into the bad areas with a sander and take it back to bare metal to expose the bad areas , then treat them with a rust convertor , then undercoat .Depending on how bad they are will determine how much work you will have to do .
What type of bad prep are we talking about? I've had experience in painting fibreglass and plastics/wood with automotive paint, but they've always been models that had to last 1 week indoors. I guess I've got a bit of youtube watching and googling to do, but I'm hoping to do it once, do it right here. If I'm sticking to standard pressure packs (acrylic), is there much I need to keep in mind for painting and prepping? I'm assuming that the paint could've been messed up by putting too much thinners or something.
MrFail wrote:
The chrome bar looks like itll need to be rechromed. Too far gone for polish. I'd just look around for some replacement good 2nd hand ones.
I thought that might be the case - I don't think it's high on the agenda yet so I might just leave it unpainted for the time being. Out of curiosity, how much does a good set cost? Are there a reputable wrecker that post? (Not really located in a place where there are spares)
MrFail wrote:
The broken weld doesnt look too serious. Its only spot welds holding those two bits together. It just looks like its bent away slightly, and because there is so much paint build up on there it looks worse than it is.
Which coincidentally is the cause of most of your other problems too. Around the seam/mirror area, it crack like that when there is too much paint on there . Plus it looks like it wasnt prepped properly. Its going to be messy to get it looking ok by patch fixing it. If you have no experience with body work, I would find someone with some experience to give you a hand. Otherwise you are going to make a big mess.
So with the broken weld, would I be okay with sanding it back where I can and filling it up with body filler, then reworking it all again?
I was looking at the mirror area yesterday - the mirror area looks like someone has pushed the mirror in somehow and it's bent the door panel up there. Really peculiar. Not sure how it happened because it looks pretty healthy. Maybe it was in a prior accident or something, which I'm not quite sure how it got there in the first place.
Haven't had experience with cars, but I might as well give it a shot, and if I ever move back to a major city I might just get it all redone. It is a project car for learning after all : )
Cheers guys for the help so far