Rust!

I wonder what's going on here?


All is revealed: Heck!

For its age it is a pretty tidy car but of course it is not perfect and it does have a few 'little' bodywork problems here and there (just like me). After all it is 17 years old and it has spent its life in the Great British Climate and it has been driven on the winter roads, which means plenty of nice corrosive Salt. Considering all that, it is not too bad really!

Over the last couple of weekends I have been tidying a few rust spots on my car. Today I got to the rear wheel arch on the driver's side. Well, this one is a bit of a mess. I actually had a bodywork specialist have a look at it a couple Of years ago (22nd June 2002 to be precise; cost was £312.43). I got him to tidy up both of the rear wheel aches as well as a couple of other jobs. I was a bit suspicious of his technique but the work looked ok from the outside. The job did not last though and I am faced with getting it done all one again. Hopefully, that will actually be possible!
Anyway, I removed the plastic trim from the leading edge of the arch where a few bubbles Of rust were beginning to show though once more. The job is actually worse than I thought and here are a couple of photographs.

I may need to seek out a decent bodywork Specialist soon and see if anything can be done. I don’t think I’ll take it back to the same place again. I think he was good at making ‘specials’ but maybe not so good at careful repair work.

I suppose that it will be the sort of problem that will ultimately kill off this car though.