Some Body Work

June 6, 2008

I started treating some of the minor rust on the car today. I used both a large and a toothbrush size metal brush to clean the infected areas, and treated with Rust Doctor following the instructions on the label. It worked exactly as described. It was wild to put my hand on the other side of the metal and feel it rapidly cool from the chemical reaction. I started working in an area that had some obvious rust, that someone had attempted to bondo over.

When the molding was taken off the wheel wells the metal was tweaked on the inside. With a hammer i started reshaping the wheel wells where the molding had been removed. I wanted to do all of this before I used the Rust Dr. Well, the hammering caused all of the bondo to fall out of a hole that had been inadequately repaired. This was actually a great thing. I cleaned and scrubbed the area on both the inside and outside of the wheel well, then treated it with the Rust Doctor. Then I followed up with Nu-Metal to fill and re-shape the hole. It's as strong as it can be. I even tried banging on it again with the hammer to see if the new treatment would also fall out. Nope! It's a lot stronger and looks a lot better.


I also used this same method to treat the rust in the trunk and repair a very small whole I found there as well. Both of these products work exactly as described. I would highly recommend them. I have a few small low spots to touch up but I think the end result is very good. I'll have to show these pics to my body shop client.