Rear 1/4 welded in, it will need a bit of panel beating to get it totally right here but sits ok, Had a look round the other side, same story But with a lot more filler But it did give me the ability to get a bit creative, lol This was its deepest point, that's a 2P coin lol And the reason for all that filler (taken with phone in HDR mode so show it in its worst form) It took me nearly 2 hours to get all that filler out, and everything is covered in dust. Kinda like a winter wonderland I'm in 2 minds of what to do here, try to repair the panel and get it as straight as possible or bust the budget and get a replacement rear 1/4. There was me hoping for an easy repair on that corner. =(
Looks like a rear quarter section I replaced mine, cut it just below the swage looks the danglies will try and find a pic. Not too expensive if memory serves me correctly £80-£90 !!! But the amount of time you would spend trying to get it right from that !! Well, its six or two threes as they say :
wow, that must have cost a fortune in filler like madpad, I replaced one of my rear quarters, I joined it in the middle of the swage line ...........both good methods though definatly worth trying to save the original metal though, if it doesnt work out at least its good practice on dent removal
It looks like its going to have to be a new panel, had another "time team" session and found out that the swage line has taken a whack too, this part has gone rusty, so it will have to replace that panel, not good! Now it's time to browse the interweb looking for the best deal
This is after I had a little go with the slide hammer and the additional rust Status-VW came up trumps with a genuine corner for £118 + vat. That's not too sad, I also got the lower parts of the RHS rear wheel arch as they were in pretty poor shape too, ordered Friday afternoon and arrived Monday afternoon, I'm in happy mode again Even the dog has given the panel a lick of approval lol Iv been having a think on where to join the new corner to the old, in planning to go for the upper part of the swage line. I was just being curious so I cut off the repair panel to see what had been done here too Most of the corner off Rotty wheel arch New section in and painted, looks better in real life than it does in this pic Here is the panel removed from the spot welds My plan in so fit the panel where it spot welds in around the engine door, plug weld the flanges where it meets the wheel arch panel and butt weld along the swage line. I have left a bit of original panel (where it meets the wheel arch side panel) to joggle and weld in over the top as I don't think I will be able to get to the flanges due to the inner skin being in the way, I'll add a photo tomorrow morning of it, I'm just not sure if in doing it the right way or not I also need to gave a fight with this bit too Not as bad as some that I have seen but while the corner is off it may as well be done now while it's easily accessible
Nope. I was being serious, they're great panels. I'd advise against the temptation to fit the whole thing as it's very difficult and pointless if the top half is ok. I joint them under the bulge, in this case to avoid having to paint the top half, others join them on the bulge. You'll be guided by that rotten patch. The aftermarket bottom repair panels are awful in every way, but these save you a whole lot of work. Here's some inspriration.
It will turn out like that because it's a whole panel and it's the right shape! Not only that, you'll be able to line up the rear of the arch to it as well, making that correct too with a complete seam between. Win, win. You may find you have to reprofile your new battery tray - they seem to be too wide to me, pushing out the bottom of the corner panel. I've had this problem pretty well every time I do a rear corner whether complete panel or bottom repair...
Cheers zed, I'm looking forward to getting stuck in with that panel now. I'll trial fit the battery tray at various stages and see how I go, is it the inner edge where it joins above the chassis rails or around the outer edge where it meets the corner panel? Here's the plan for fitting it with pics this time The edge that I left behind is where I am going to try and join the panel, hopfully I'll joggle that edge and overlay the new corner onto that. Good idea or not ?????? Had a play with the chassis rails today, Cut away the rusty holey stuff And replaced with new I'm really liking welding the thicker stuff, much easier no blow holes Remade the bendy bit that goes here, Now I'm working on the box section bit that attaches to the bendy bit, No pics of that yet though
Box section made last night, diddymens resto thread to the rescue again to show how it's done Pretty happy with how that turned out, even drilled the holes, no idea what they are for but I'm sure there is some clever reason This is the last photo I have of the new corner in one piece And an overlapped trial fitting of the arch Zed I see what you mean with the battery tray now, will need a little bit of fettling Getting excited now as its nearly engine time
had another bash at the rear 1/4 today, managed to get it fitted and welded in. still need to dress the welds and make then look pretty as zed said its a joy to fit a guinuine panel that actually fits, he was right i did have to beat the battery tray up a bit to to get it to sit right, and its now obvious that i have made a small error when i fitted the lower rear arch panel as its not actually stright, so its left a small gap along the seam line at the very bottom, im sure i can mend this at a later date with a bit of magic, but all in i sit here with a can of cider a happy man. got these on ebay for £6 delivered gave them a blast and a repaint little things but its a tick off the "to do" list i picked up the engine hoist and engine stand from my dads today, so i may tackle that next ;D just a clean and a service and to make sure i got all of the bits
