PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - The importance of getting underneath your car

junqueyardjim · #10 03-01-2011, 11:16 AM

Just would like to mention that if you are short on welding skills or probably don't have a welder there are other good ways to fix or repair those rusty section of fender liners, ect, any sheet metal part which is put there to protect the bottom side of exterior sheet metal. Here is what you do. Clean the area up and paint it with black POR. It has to be the underside because black POR can't handle much UV, (sun lite). Then when you have it painted with POR, get some nice pieces of plastic from gallon antifreeze jugs. A lot of products come in those gallon jugs and that plastic is so tough. If the area is flat, use the sides, it you need to fill a corner, use a corner, even a three sided corner can be repaired. I used the two part JB Weld to glue it to the area that has been painted with POR. It is a little slow to stick together, the warmer the quicker, so be patient and it will set in. Once it is stuck together only grinding will get it off. I even did the rocker panels on my 85 that way, Being exterior, I had to do it very carefully, but it worked well. It was all junk and soft, I could not have lifted that car an inch on the jack holes, it was all "make up". But it worked for me. I didn't need the jack holes but I wanted it to look decent. And it even looked good after I parted the car out and the junkyard came to pick it up. Yes, I thought, those rocker panels still look good after 4 or 5 years.