Rust

[stasis]

brought in the car for a qoute tiday in Bendigo. And guess what?! they qouted me like 1k for the job. They wanted to paint the front fender and the front door and the rear door!! I said what!!??? They rust is only about 1.5" long and about 3cm wide.

Did you guys painted the whole side when fixing the rust? or just paint that drivers front door? Im really anal about the rust now.

Yudy

[Mr_RS4]

Well its hard to put an exact amount on what I paid just for the rust. I got mine fixed when I got my kit fitted and painted. But basically I paid $1200 for the fitting and painting of the kit and $800.00 to get the rust fixed under both mirrors, both mirrors had been scratched (from scraping on things previous to my ownership) so these were resprayed too and a nice dent and scrape that went from the RHR wheel arch over to the RHR door plus some other minor scrapes here and there. So $800.00 for that extra work compared to $1000 just for the rust under the mirrors seems a bit unreasonable. From what I can tell both doors have been blended (can tell the new paint from the old if you look REALLY close) but this probably had more to do with the body kit blending than the mirrors.

Others who have just had the rust fixed and nothing else may be able to give you a better idea on price.

[rb26stagea]

I have just found a S2 in the same colour as my car(white pearl), which is being dismantled, and the doors appear to be rust free. I was thinking it will probably be easier and cheaper to just fit new doors, as I'm going to have the colour of the car changed in the near furture anyway, so if there's different levels of fade, I can live with that for the time being... Thoughts?

[jasevr4]

Sounds like a good option dude.. Assuming they don't want too much for em I'd go for it

But then again if you're going to respray soon anyway it might not be worth the hassle.. Guess it depends on the timeframe.

[GoldZilla]

Sounds like a good option dude.. Assuming they don't want too much for em I'd go for it

But then again if you're going to respray soon anyway it might not be worth the hassle.. Guess it depends on the timeframe.

Agreed on both counts...

[pat260RS]

brought in the car for a qoute tiday in Bendigo. And guess what?! they qouted me like 1k for the job. They wanted to paint the front fender and the front door and the rear door!! I said what!!??? They rust is only about 1.5" long and about 3cm wide.

Did you guys painted the whole side when fixing the rust? or just paint that drivers front door? Im really anal about the rust now.

Yudy

You just cant paint the door or you will notice the difference depending on your colour, it seems pretty cheap if they are going to paint both sides.Its better than blending in the guards.

Pat

[stasis]

You just cant paint the door or you will notice the difference depending on your colour, it seems pretty cheap if they are going to paint both sides.Its better than blending in the guards.

Pat

yea i know. hmm but ididnt think that it would have a differnt shade. Cos if they are using the same brand paint as nissan and they have the dormulation (computer mixed) it wiuld be perfect. but i dont know the standards of australian panel beaters.

[munchstagea]

I have just found a S2 in the same colour as my car(white pearl), which is being dismantled, and the doors appear to be rust free. I was thinking it will probably be easier and cheaper to just fit new doors, as I'm going to have the colour of the car changed in the near furture anyway, so if there's different levels of fade, I can live with that for the time being... Thoughts?

Hey Micah,

They all seem to rust at some point, if there is no rust in the new doors now, there might be down the track. After you have had the colour change done??? I'd think about it that way, if you can hold out and have yours fixed (as long as they are not too bad yet) when you do the colour change that should give you longer rust freeness, probably ten years at least if done right. It is without a doubt a design fault that water collects in this spot and can't get away, so I don't think it can be avoided unless the panel shop can come up with a solution when they fix the spots that will stop them from coming back...

Cheers

Luke

[stasis]

Hey Micah,

They all seem to rust at some point, if there is no rust in the new doors now, there might be down the track. After you have had the colour change done??? I'd think about it that way, if you can hold out and have yours fixed (as long as they are not too bad yet) when you do the colour change that should give you longer rust freeness, probably ten years at least if done right. It is without a doubt a design fault that water collects in this spot and can't get away, so I don't think it can be avoided unless the panel shop can come up with a solution when they fix the spots that will stop them from coming back...

Cheers

Luke

i have a solution to stop the rust from coming back. Spray a cold galvanised to the edge of the metal or just a rust prentative spray. It will work.

[pat260RS]

yea i know. hmm but ididnt think that it would have a differnt shade. Cos if they are using the same brand paint as nissan and they have the dormulation (computer mixed) it wiuld be perfect. but i dont know the standards of australian panel beaters.

Your right but it depends how old your car is and how much the paint has been exposed to the sun uv realy fu*#s and fades the colour

[stasis]

Your right but it depends how old your car is and how much the paint has been exposed to the sun uv realy fu*#s and fades the colour

well the paint look like new and its got a paint protection from japan as well. Overall the car has been kept well.

[rb26stagea]

Hey Micah,

They all seem to rust at some point, if there is no rust in the new doors now, there might be down the track. After you have had the colour change done??? I'd think about it that way, if you can hold out and have yours fixed (as long as they are not too bad yet) when you do the colour change that should give you longer rust freeness, probably ten years at least if done right. It is without a doubt a design fault that water collects in this spot and can't get away, so I don't think it can be avoided unless the panel shop can come up with a solution when they fix the spots that will stop them from coming back...

Cheers

Luke

Good call Luke. I'll take one from column a), and one from column b).

Looks like the current passenger door is fubar, so I may just replace that one, and get the driver's door repaired. I'd like to thimk I'll keep the car for a few years yet (it has great sentimental value:it was my Dad's last car, and we designed it together), so I may as well get the new door checked out befor I mount it (in a purely non-sexual way, of course).

Damn, it get expensive doing things the right way....