Reusing Ali door skin

Frosted said:

I removed my back door skin as the paint was bubbling and found lots of white powder under it.

Can I clean it up and fill any surface pitting and reuse it or is it basically infected with rot now? I am going to put a barrier to stop the dissimilar metal reaction.

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dieseldog69 said:

You can but as always there is always the risk of cracking the paint when folding the skin back over the frame and so it all starts over again, I wouldn't bother if I'm honest, I'd probably go down the road of using 0.9mm sheet steel and spotting that to the frame and then getting it hot dipped, T-washed, high build primer, flatted, primed, flatted and then a top coat to make it look fabulous.

Deadenders have the luxury of lots of big flat slabs and the rear door is especially a good candidate for the procedure above

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