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#261
It starts from the inside out, so grinding the outside won't help it will just pop up again in a year. I messaged a few people that had it repaired locally and the rust eventually came up again. Most of the time it's just the outer skin that is rusting. BTDT sells an outer skin but the outer skin (non-structural) is right next to the inner skin (structural). So depending on how bad the rust it the structural part might be rusting too, the only way to know is to cut out the outer skin and see how bad it is. If the inner skin is badly rusted it would be best to get a the whole section from a donor car and weld that in probably. The inner part is thick so if it has surface rust that can be fixed. This is just based of the stuff I read in the past hour lol. My car still has rocker panel rust.
Here are some links if anyone is looking into why this happens
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=259016 <more links on post 18
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=274642
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=210664
That's the reason I don't want to drop $1000 on a body shop to patch it up, just for it to come back in a year or two. I'd rather spend the money on parts, autox and track days right now.
#263
Your post made me dig up old posts I had bookmarked, I know I was looking into the issue a while ago and forgot about it.
It starts from the inside out, so grinding the outside won't help it will just pop up again in a year. I messaged a few people that had it repaired locally and the rust eventually came up again. Most of the time it's just the outer skin that is rusting. BTDT sells an outer skin but the outer skin (non-structural) is right next to the inner skin (structural). So depending on how bad the rust it the structural part might be rusting too, the only way to know is to cut out the outer skin and see how bad it is. If the inner skin is badly rusted it would be best to get a the whole section from a donor car and weld that in probably. The inner part is thick so if it has surface rust that can be fixed. This is just based of the stuff I read in the past hour lol. My car still has rocker panel rust.
Here are some links if anyone is looking into why this happens
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=259016 <more links on post 18
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=274642
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=210664
That's the reason I don't want to drop $1000 on a body shop to patch it up, just for it to come back in a year or two. I'd rather spend the money on parts, autox and track days right now.
It starts from the inside out, so grinding the outside won't help it will just pop up again in a year. I messaged a few people that had it repaired locally and the rust eventually came up again. Most of the time it's just the outer skin that is rusting. BTDT sells an outer skin but the outer skin (non-structural) is right next to the inner skin (structural). So depending on how bad the rust it the structural part might be rusting too, the only way to know is to cut out the outer skin and see how bad it is. If the inner skin is badly rusted it would be best to get a the whole section from a donor car and weld that in probably. The inner part is thick so if it has surface rust that can be fixed. This is just based of the stuff I read in the past hour lol. My car still has rocker panel rust.
Here are some links if anyone is looking into why this happens
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=259016 <more links on post 18
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=274642
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=210664
That's the reason I don't want to drop $1000 on a body shop to patch it up, just for it to come back in a year or two. I'd rather spend the money on parts, autox and track days right now.
Last edited by Schadenfreude; 02-29-2012 at 11:11 AM.
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