SuperK's Bad Bondo Days
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 5:06 pm
OBVIOUSLY, yes very obviously, someone did one seriously serious bad body work on this poor car. Maybe a few of you remember me posting these over a year ago:
The damage extends on the quarter panel, from the taillight, halfway up the pillar, almost all the way to the bottom of the quarter panel, and through the door.
I purchased this car with it NOT looking like this. Sneaky sunovagun took some crack hiding material that looks like it comes in a little chapstick container, and hid the cracking spots very well. I was one day playing with a visible crack and plop! a whole piece fell off! As you can see in the picture. and there was pretty rust on the bottom
See how it's "blooming" on the car door?
A year later, the WHOLE quarter panel started blooming with cracks, and could be chipped off with the fingers, all the way down to the headlight. Under some was bare metal, others was rust, and again, others was primer.
The body work was also crooked. Seams weren't matching, ect, ect.
The metal wasn't roughed before bondo was applied.
on some parts, the bondo was placed over the primer
the bondo was THICK and the quarter panel was looking a WHOLE lot worse than it does in those pictures.
The hardener was mixed incorrectly and wouldn't stick
The paint was also laid on thick, and was some supercheap enamel based paint.
So I finally had it taken to a body shop. they ground it down to the metal, eliminated the rust, reapplied bondo smoothly and primered the door and the panels.
I had a talk with the body shop as to what was wrong, and he quickly gave me insight on to what was the issue, and what they would do to correct it.
This gave me peace of mind, since he was taking the right steps to fix the issue, and not just doing another "mock job" of fixing the problem.
I really do hope, however, it wasn't just cheap talk and they did another halfarse job at this. It looks like a good job, at least.
The price was 75 for the car door and 175 for the quarter panel. I considered this VERY reasonable as there were so many problems they had to "correct" in order for them to fix it, and I am glad it's done.
I now have a "Paint Installment Plan" as some De-Ricer's would put it.
Back in my high schooling days, in all my superior common-sense-ness, I REALLY wanted an MX-6. I found numerous that had horrible clearcoat peeling, but I figured a quick 400 dollar paint job would be all it needed to look nice.
I am here to tell you, the crowd that already knows better, what you already know:
Don't EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER skimp on bodywork/paint! You get what you pay for, even if it does bite it's next owner in the butt.
I'm having a distaste for equadorians right now... Equadorians! DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY! and tell me you're not all like this! haha!
The damage extends on the quarter panel, from the taillight, halfway up the pillar, almost all the way to the bottom of the quarter panel, and through the door.
I purchased this car with it NOT looking like this. Sneaky sunovagun took some crack hiding material that looks like it comes in a little chapstick container, and hid the cracking spots very well. I was one day playing with a visible crack and plop! a whole piece fell off! As you can see in the picture. and there was pretty rust on the bottom
See how it's "blooming" on the car door?
A year later, the WHOLE quarter panel started blooming with cracks, and could be chipped off with the fingers, all the way down to the headlight. Under some was bare metal, others was rust, and again, others was primer.
The body work was also crooked. Seams weren't matching, ect, ect.
The metal wasn't roughed before bondo was applied.
on some parts, the bondo was placed over the primer
the bondo was THICK and the quarter panel was looking a WHOLE lot worse than it does in those pictures.
The hardener was mixed incorrectly and wouldn't stick
The paint was also laid on thick, and was some supercheap enamel based paint.
So I finally had it taken to a body shop. they ground it down to the metal, eliminated the rust, reapplied bondo smoothly and primered the door and the panels.
I had a talk with the body shop as to what was wrong, and he quickly gave me insight on to what was the issue, and what they would do to correct it.
This gave me peace of mind, since he was taking the right steps to fix the issue, and not just doing another "mock job" of fixing the problem.
I really do hope, however, it wasn't just cheap talk and they did another halfarse job at this. It looks like a good job, at least.
The price was 75 for the car door and 175 for the quarter panel. I considered this VERY reasonable as there were so many problems they had to "correct" in order for them to fix it, and I am glad it's done.
I now have a "Paint Installment Plan" as some De-Ricer's would put it.
Back in my high schooling days, in all my superior common-sense-ness, I REALLY wanted an MX-6. I found numerous that had horrible clearcoat peeling, but I figured a quick 400 dollar paint job would be all it needed to look nice.
I am here to tell you, the crowd that already knows better, what you already know:
Don't EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER skimp on bodywork/paint! You get what you pay for, even if it does bite it's next owner in the butt.
I'm having a distaste for equadorians right now... Equadorians! DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY! and tell me you're not all like this! haha!