The garage did the work yesterday and it came back ok. The patch is
reasonably neat, but could do with a bit of tidying up with filler. They
also painted the repair, which they weren't asked to do, and got a good
colour match. I wasn't charged any extra for the painting and the price
was as per their original quote of #94.
The result is that I have a fully MOTed spitfire, which didn't cost too
much to fix and is ready for the summer sunshine!
Thanks to everyone who gave me advice/pictures/help, very much
appreciated!
cheers
John
http://www.spit1500.co.uk/
--- John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I just took a closer look at the sill after getting the car back
> tonight
> and the rust is not quite as bad as I had first feared.
>
> It is more the rear wing at the bottom of the b post that is the very
> rusty bit. One one side the sill does not appear to have any bad rust
> and on the other side it is only the last inch around the drain hole
> that
> is a bit rusty. The really bad bit is the rear wing bottom, it is
> really
> crumbly here on both sides and there can't be much good metal left in
> the
> bottom inch.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that the rear wing bottom has
> much to with structural rigidity of the car. It seems that if a bit
> down
> there was going to go rusty that it is better the rear wing went and
> not
> the sill.
>
> Would I be better buying a wing bottom repair panel and getting the
> garage to fit that or letting them make up their own repair panel? It
> seems like a fairly simple panel to make up so I'm thinking I'll let
> them
> go with the original plan of making up their own repair panel.
>
> Thanks to all those who replied to my original e-mail, you've all been
> a
> great help. I have also decided not to sell Saskia. I think that was
> a
> fit of pens-flying-across-the-office anger. In the time that I have
> owned Saskia I have now replaced all the front suspension, steering
> rack,
> engine, rear suspension and diff. The body is very solid except for
> the
> afore-mentioned rust (will need a rhs rear wing lower repair panel at
> some point in the future tho). I figure that there is not too much
> left
> that I haven't already attended to that could go wrong! I am waiting
> for
> the half-shafts and propshaft to break tho seeing that these are the
> only
> major components I have not yet touched! The gearbox is going to get
> an
> overhaul in the summer with a friend who'll do it for free.
>
> --- John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I just had my car MOTed and she failed :-(
> >
> > This time it was both the sills that have started rusting from the
> > back,
> > I was expecting this as I had noticed they were looking quite flakey.
>
> > The garage has quoted me #80 to put repair panels at the back and MIG
> > weld them in, but that there would be a slight bumb where the repair
> > panel had gone on. They reckon that about a foot of metal would have
> > to
> > be ground off and the price does not include painting. This sounds
> > like
> > a good price but they did say that it would be better for me to get
> > complete sills, and get a body shop to replace the whole lot, but
> this
> > would obviously cost a lot more. The front of the sills look to be
> in
> > good condition.
> >
> > Could anyone give me some advice as to what I should do, I have
> little
> > experience in bodywork things.
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