ive found some rust :(

[Riggy]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/riggy4/27032007235.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/riggy4/27032007233.jpg

washed car today and while cleaning the arches found this

gutting or what :cry: :cry: :cry:

[vaughanmc]

there better than my arches :(

[coochiSR]

Yeah shame, them poor girls cars! :p

[coochiSR]

And what you worried about, its a vauxhall? they come out the factory with rust :p

[vaughanmc]

whats the wee dents round the arches as well??

[Riggy]

Yeah shame, them poor girls cars! :p

girls car , what is lol ?

[Martin]

Wellcome to the real world Rigster lol

[coochiSR]

girls car , what is lol ?

That be the Corsa?

[Adam]

whats the wee dents round the arches as well?? Spot welds

All novas have them.


Shame about the rust Riggy, still not bad for original 15yr old arches :thumb: Rare to see a nova with its original arches nowadays,Lol.

[vaughanmc]

That be the Corsa?

thats PePE i think..

[coochiSR]

Huh? PePE?

[vaughanmc]

The Reg Plate -- PPE, i think i seen that car called PePE lol..unless its me and my sad life

[coochiSR]

O must be his Nova then, been that long since i've seen pics of it :p

[Riggy]

aye its my Nova lol PePE

16 years old this month :thumb:

[vaughanmc]

so does that mean i'm sane? calling a car a name by its reg plate?

[Riggy]

:thumb:

[vaughanmc]

anyways, u putting new arches on or fixing them ones?

[coochiSR]

I aplogise Mr Riggy and PePE for insulting the both of you!

P.S:- Look like an idiot now ;)

[Philsutton]

stop being a girl, they are mint in repect to the majority of novas lol

[vaughanmc]

stop being a girl, they are mint in repect to the majority of novas lol

yeah like mines lol, but there is worse out there than mine :)

[Riggy]

anyways, u putting new arches on or fixing them ones?

just rub them down when it gets re-sprayed , its only very slight surface rust and TBH as soon as i took that pic i went and rubbed them down and painted them , so there spot on agaon now :thumb:

[vaughanmc]

kool mines will be getting rubbed down and painted as well -- but there is more surface rust on mines than on yours..

[R1CH]

F*ck me you could have them sorted in 30 mins !!
Get the grinder out & grind off all the loose rust, treat it with summet like Ku-Rust then stick some Hammerite on them, it'll stop them getting any worse (for a while).

Rich

[SRlew]

gutting, but there still mint realy lol

there mint if you can see the original spot welds!

[Dar]

Those arches look like they have had it. Time for a reshell I thinklol
I was expecting some proper rust not a teeniest tinyest spot:roll:

[Dave.]

awww poor peppe, glad its sorted

its like a bigger older brother to my car that, as that was a 1.0L trip like mine lol

[Martin]

i was expecting some thing liek this

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/Martain_novalicious/PICT0170.jpg

Or this

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/Martain_novalicious/PICT0364.jpg




http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/Martain_novalicious/PICT0363-1.jpg

[ashtal]

Get them sorted now and avoid fitting new arches in future. Dont get half a job tho. Make sure its done proper and get it wax oiled aswell.

[ade]

blimey! that looks BAD Riggy! I'd stop driving her if I was you!

lol

My advice - get a can of under body sealer and pump half of it down the inside of your arches from the inside of the car (befind the 1/4 panel trim) so it dows right down into the panel joins and down the bottom of the car behind the side skirts (from the inside) - if that makes sense. that way no water can penetrate. Then from the outside clean every little last bit of salt and dirt from the lip of the arch - scrubbing brish and hot soapy water and then once fully dried (use a hairdryer!) seam seal the edge and them layer on sometning like tiger seal or similar - the stuff they use to bond body kits with as well as in the boating industry - its amazing stuff - very hard wearing and will lock those ruddy edges once and for all - its black - but thats not a problem because you can blend it into your inner arches!

[Pillar]

its only surface rust just grind it off and clag it up

[macc nova]

i'll swop mine for them lol

[krobinson]

Thats easy sorted matE