Rust...

[Jos]

My rear, offside arch is abit rusted, tried everything, but its only delaying the enevitable it seems.

Soon, I am having my car re-painted, so my question is:

Can you replace the rear arches somehow on a Nova? The front sidepanels are easy enough, but, I see no possible way of removing and replacing the rear ones...
I don't want to have my car fully re-sprayed to find that this arch just falls apart on me not long after. And (if its even possible) I have to replace the arch, and have it re-sprayed again.


So, is there anything I can do? (without buying another nova!)

[STE Novavanman]

you will need to weld in new archs like mine on my peugeot but they were harder than the nova

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/novavanman/P7230052.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/novavanman/P7230053.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/novavanman/P7230054.jpg

[Jos]

ok...well I have some good friends handy with a torch.

The oustide lip is rusting too...any way I can sort that?

Thanks for the reply though, appreciated!

[Nick]

you can buy a repair panel, which is just like the outside lip, or you can buy a whole rear quarter panel.

it may be worth doing the rear quarter panel, as then at least it's something that will stay rust free for a while

[Mike.]

i've bought a replacement rear arch but i'm thinking of getting a rear quarter, rear arch panels aren't expensive either

www.sel-imperial.co.uk

[mikey14sr]

If you can afford the full quarter panel go for it, I've only used repair sections before and they take some work to line up and get smooth again.