Dealing With Rot Behind Front Bumper

[DaveK 0]

Took off the front bumper and low and behold, rot!!

 

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a123/davekgti/DSC00623.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a123/davekgti/DSC00622.jpg

 

How should i be dealing with this? Was thinking just cut some steel to shape, bend it to the same shape and replace the rotten section. Was also going to replace the section between the headlights (below radiator)with a box section.

 

Would also need to replace the bumper brackets, alot of work

 

Cheers, Dave

[Banjo 1]

Looks like surface rust in the pic? Get the grinder out and grind it all back so you can see what your dealing with, any holes cut out and weld in new, they always rust there very common.

[inferno 1]

i was looking at new front panels a while ago, you can get the whole front end on ebay for around 50£ and just weld it on. when you doing this u may uncover a lot more rot on the inner wings too. there was a thread on psooc iirc where some guy repaired the front end on his, maybe some1 knows the link and will repost it.

 

i have a spare driver side panel new, you can buy each side separatly see.

[DaveK 0]

whats that part of the bodywork called? cant find anything on ebay

[DaveK 0]

oop sorry was being a tit, ignore last lol

[DaveK 0]

anyone know any places that sell complete front panels? Autofive does them but £100 inc vat is pricey

[Pugnut 9 1 Cars]

neat autos

 

they seem to have a problem with thier ordering though .

[DaveK 0]

thats cheap, thanks mate

[steige 1 1 Cars]

i was looking at new front panels a while ago, you can get the whole front end on ebay for around 50£ and just weld it on. when you doing this u may uncover a lot more rot on the inner wings too. there was a thread on psooc iirc where some guy repaired the front end on his, maybe some1 knows the link and will repost it.

 

i have a spare driver side panel new, you can buy each side separatly see.

 

Have a look at my thread in the projects section. My whole front panel was rotten on both sides along with the inner wings. I cut away all of the rust and there was a lot! before the new complete panel was welded on an sealed up. Jeram did the welding for me and did and excellent job. When i first saw the rust i thought the car was due for the scrapper, but the transformation has been amazing. I got the panels from ebay and they seem to fit very well.

[hoody_g 4]

I got mine from cv panels in glasgow for £40 a bit of a distance for you.

 

If you find a body parts shop in your area that sell hadrian parts then you should be able to get the whole front panel or just the headlight part. Try their website and see if their is a stockest near you,

 

http://www.carpanels.co.uk/index_stockists.htm

 

HTH

 

Hoody

[DaveK 0]

ah there is a stockists in my town, superb! cheers!