just been quoted £750 to repair one o/s drivers rear section of sill…its not even that bad yet just outer layer,
are there any fair priced bodyshops near portsmouth?
cheers
That does sound quite unrealistic! MX5Parts.co.uk have a two car workshop… Could give them a go?
Obviously the body shop doesn’t want to do the job, so they give you a ridiculously inflated price, or they are just out to rip you off.
Have just done the wife’s! will post a couple of pics tonight, reckon you might be best off getting the angle grinder out, cutting back to bare metal then cut a plate to fit. Then get a mobile welder in to do the job, which should really keep the cost down. It was only the outer sill on ours that was the issue, and only on the offside, the nearside was perfect!
Have the bodyshop seen the car? sometimes they dont like to quote as with rust it tends to be a lot more widespread than you first think.
Try an MOT tester many of them advertisie welding to MOT standards
OK here we go. Saturday morning I decided to attend to the “surface rust” that had been on the offside sill of the wife’s 94 NA for a couple of years. After jacking up the car, initial digging made me realise it was rather worse than I had anticipated, and I was left with this:
The inner sill was fine and after an angle grinding session, (I ground and cut out all of the inside rust, as far as I could get at it) it was out with the welder and get my neighbour to plate it, after grinding off the excess weld we had:
and this was the scene as we started to clear up:
painted in zinc primer, then seam sealant and stonechip guard, followed by a final coat of shultz, and we had this:
hardly noticeable as its right at the bottom of the sill, only remaining job is to drill a hole from the wheel arch into the sill to get some waxoil in there. Curiously the nearside rear sill shows no rust whatsoever…