Thursday, August 29, 2019

Rust (2.0)

Revisiting a nasty can of worms once again.

The lower end of the front fenders where they meet the rocker boards on the Jetta were starting to show rust again . Piss-poor design traps debris behind the plastic fender liner and before you know it you have an agricultural concern going on in there .
 I had rebuilt them only four years ago. 

This is what was left after removing the dirt, leaves, seeds and rust and hitting it with the Permatex rust converter . Bondo won't do it anymore . That's going to need some new metal this time .
Driver's side was not quite as bad . Those holes can be filled with JB weld epoxy putty .
Selecting a 3 x 10 inch piece of sheet metal , the knock out panel from a kitchen hood extractor to be exact , we trim off five inches , snip here and there and beat on it for a while . . . .
. . . so that it results in something like this .
Snaps right into place like it was store bought .
Fits pretty good too
Coated everything with 3M undercoating and snapped the new part in place then coated it all again.
Good for another four years?


2 comments:

  1. Ya got mud grips on that Jetta??

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    1. Mud grips? I'm guessing that's what we call winter tires here. I don't bother swapping them out for summer tires as I normally get a couple years out of them and then replace them anyhow.

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