More Filler Than A Jason Donovan Album

[mainline 2 1 Cars]

Decided to do something about the bubbling along my passenger side sill today. Now I almost wish I had never started. Turns out the bubbling was caused by water getting behind a previous owner's repair job, in which he had used silicone sealant all down the side of the car from the door pillar post back to the wheelarch, then painted over it, nice. The join where the door joins the sill was fashioned out of body filler, glass fibre (his favourite) and some brown resinous material about the size of a large mouse which had seeped right into the sill, great. All along the angle where the boot floor joins the rear bumper was also made of glass fibre, brilliant.

 

Managed to hack and fish most of it out and have cut it back to bare metal, which was in surprisingly good nick considering how badly bodged it had been. Thing is, it would have been an easy repair before he effed it up.

 

Car looks very sad now, and I am extremely pissed off because I only fitted a new clutch a month ago, got a new ticket on it two weeks ago and paid out for tax at the same time. Grrrrrrrrrr.

 

Here is a picture of the sealant (strips) and the resin with the filler on top of it and on top of that the paint that I could see from above. As you can tell, the resin had just been 'poured' in until it had reached the bottom of the sill and then packed in with glassfibre, large dollop of body filler, sanded and painted.

 

Effing bodgers! The trainer will give you an idea of the scale, FYI fact fans, it is a Puma King footy trainer, size 11!

 

[swordfish210 20]

I've seen similar things before. A mate was restoring a Mk2 Escort and when we cut the sills out it was clear that the previous bodger had just welded some new sills to the old rusty ones and painted it....cock!

[Tom Fenton 1,548]

Not wanting to defend bodging, but that big lump of brown stuff looks similar to the OE "glue" they used everywhere, and there should be "some" seam sealer along the join between sill and rear 1/4 panel.

[mainline 2 1 Cars]

Not wanting to defend bodging, but that big lump of brown stuff looks similar to the OE "glue" they used everywhere, and there should be "some" seam sealer along the join between sill and rear 1/4 panel.

 

Compared with the 'good' side it looked completely different before I started chipping away at it. Definitely a bodge down the bottom of the door join. Seam sealer might be a different story, but there was a hell of a lot of it.

 

Will get a picture of what it looks like now, but its well rotten!

[GLPoomobile 958]

Nothing like a bit of bathroom silicone sealant to fix a 3/4 panel on....

 

 

That was my old 1.9 Graphite. The shell was a bit of a mess anyway, then I noticed the rear quarters starting to come away from the sills after only having it for about 6 months (London speed bumps must have taken their toll on this brilliant bit of workmanship). When I stripped it out to scrap the shell I discovered both rear quarters 'adhered' to the sills and arches by white silicone. The spot welds had disintegrated.