nickh75

Well-Known Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #1

can anyone of you fine fellows reccommend a good paint to stop rust
after i cut/grind out all the rust from my wheel arches is there a good paint/additive or owt i can use to stop the bastid coming back?
coz i dunt want to do it more than once
it had been done b4 i brought it, it looked ok BUT the nastey horrible tin wirms come back
help pleeeeese
nick

ps dont matter how much it cost, but new body ain't a option!

 

Pikey

Dummy Ejection Facilitator..

• Feb 23, 2008

• #2

kurust and hammerite.

 

nickh75

Well-Known Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #3

thanx mate
will i be able to spray body colour over that? will hammerite sand down smooth? or do i jis say fook it doors are shut you cant see it
or does the hammerite fook that idea up
only want to do it once though

 

Pikey

Dummy Ejection Facilitator..

• Feb 23, 2008

• #4

use hammerite smooth. they do it about 20 different colours now. If it's the wheel arch inside the door paint it satin black and stop the paint line whare it becomes visible then switch back to your normal colour.

 

seamusb

New Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #5

use a phosphate primer. I use it o all steel welds on construction grade steel.better than underseal too!!!!

 

yella

New Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #6

just remember, if you are grinding the rust back and treating it on only one side of the steel then it will keep spreading on the other side. eventually it will eat away at your seatbelt mountings. the only true way to get rid of rust is to cut it out and replace with fresh metal

 

iannotts

New Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #7

What he said ^^^^^

 

disco_steve

New Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #8

I can recommend this product . . . we use it on outdoor substations, and it really does work - can be over painted with the likes of Hammerite etc.

Not sure you'll get it in a DIY store, but readily available mail order etc
http://www.nwepaints.co.uk/acatalog/Galvafroid%20Data.PDF

 

yella

New Member

• Feb 23, 2008

• #9

aye but it dunt werk if yer dunt remove the rust from both sides does it

 

nickh75

Well-Known Member

• Feb 24, 2008

• #10

yeah thanx lads
an cheers yella got ya point mate
an as i said i only want to do it once so it will mean a full strip down of anything that gets in the way.
don't won't no rust on my baby do i

 

revjames

New Member

• Feb 24, 2008

• #11

I have got some bubbling in the wheel arches where you open the back doors. Funny thing is it was spotless a year ago so someone did a great job of hiding it and spraying the right colour etc. Can you get at the underneath of the arches then? underseal a good idea after rustproofing? We have some stuff at work called Devcon and its a 2 pack very hard wearing mixture for fixing holes in pipes etc. I might try some of that.