Thanks everyone.
We kept her in the garage until the last few years but she is what we took when the weather was bad. We've moved but always north enough that salted roads are part of lufe.
We started asking at the first bubbles in the paint. The paint guys said they wouldn't touch it because she was rusting from inside the panels.
About the time the first paint flaked off, I started asking about replacing panels. At the time, I didn't care if it cost more than she was worth to anyone else. But they already would not do it. They said bondo or spray foam would make her rust out even faster.
It is now nearly ten years later. She doesn't have water inside the carpeted areas yet but I'm afraid it is getting close to that.
I don't care what she looks like but I think I'm going to have to try to seal the water out some how.
I'm afraid there won't be enough steel to use bondo. I'm thinking get her as clean as possible, wait for a stretch of good, hot, and hopefully dry weather (maybe when I visit my kids who live in a hotter, drier climate) and crawl under her with a wire brush and can of expanding foam.
Then try to put a barrier around as much of the relevant area as I can. Let that cure. Then spray paint that with whatever coating is the most salt resistant.
But I don't know if it has a chance to work. I'm really bad at finding how-to videos on line. I kknda think she is past what most people try to fix, anyway.
She actually doesn't look too bad but I know it is almost paint holding the rust together for all parts beliw the top of the wheel wells. And some higher parts.
We kept her in the garage until the last few years but she is what we took when the weather was bad. We've moved but always north enough that salted roads are part of lufe.
We started asking at the first bubbles in the paint. The paint guys said they wouldn't touch it because she was rusting from inside the panels.
About the time the first paint flaked off, I started asking about replacing panels. At the time, I didn't care if it cost more than she was worth to anyone else. But they already would not do it. They said bondo or spray foam would make her rust out even faster.
It is now nearly ten years later. She doesn't have water inside the carpeted areas yet but I'm afraid it is getting close to that.
I don't care what she looks like but I think I'm going to have to try to seal the water out some how.
I'm afraid there won't be enough steel to use bondo. I'm thinking get her as clean as possible, wait for a stretch of good, hot, and hopefully dry weather (maybe when I visit my kids who live in a hotter, drier climate) and crawl under her with a wire brush and can of expanding foam.
Then try to put a barrier around as much of the relevant area as I can. Let that cure. Then spray paint that with whatever coating is the most salt resistant.
But I don't know if it has a chance to work. I'm really bad at finding how-to videos on line. I kknda think she is past what most people try to fix, anyway.
She actually doesn't look too bad but I know it is almost paint holding the rust together for all parts beliw the top of the wheel wells. And some higher parts.