Rust - how/where to get it sorted? [Dublin]

Jimmy Iovine

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to treat rust on my car (2010 Golf).

I have about 4/5 very small bits of rust on the bonnet and roof of the car. I noticed them a few months ago and, thankfully, none have developed. They are very small. The biggest is smaller than my baby fingernail.

I suppose I could do it myself, but I'd prefer to get it done properly. If that is by myself, then that's fine. I don't want to botch the job and have a complete hole rusted in it in a few years though.

I've taken a picture of the biggest patch. It hasn't gone through. (Yes, my car does need a clean as well. I'll get that done after the rust issue is sorted )

I know Volkswagen have a rust warranty, but the rust on my car won't qualify.

Any suggestions? I'm living in Dublin. If there is a place that would help, I'll travel.

Thanks.

Del2005

If they are all like that you'll need to respray the bonnet.

savagethegoat

any bodyshop will do that

Car99

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to treat rust on my car (2010 Golf).

I have about 4/5 very small bits of rust on the bonnet and roof of the car. I noticed them a few months ago and, thankfully, none have developed. They are very small. The biggest is smaller than my baby fingernail.


I suppose I could do it myself, but I'd prefer to get it done properly. If that is by myself, then that's fine. I don't want to botch the job and have a complete hole rusted in it in a few years though.

I've taken a picture of the biggest patch. It hasn't gone through. (Yes, my car does need a clean as well. I'll get that done after the rust issue is sorted )

I know Volkswagen have a rust warranty, but the rust on my car won't qualify.

Any suggestions? I'm living in Dublin. If there is a place that would help, I'll travel.

Thanks.

Go to your vw parts dept. order colour touch up kit for your car comes in two parts base and lacquer . Touch em up. Those panels won't rust out 8f you do that. If you really want you could treat them with a rust converter solution before touching up but I couldn't see that being necessary in your situation.

Wibbs

*rust paranoic here* Rust is like an iceberg, if you can see it, there is more below the surface. It depends on the actual size of the viewable rust. If these are the usual tiny couple of mm stone chips then I'd carefully sand off what you can, hit them with rust converter and overpaint with a touch up kit as Car99 said. If there is any sign of bubbling then things have become more serious. Bubbling happens because the rust is gone all the way through the steel panel, making it slightly porous. In that case the iceberg analogy is in play and there will be a greater area affected under the paint. If you see yourself hanging onto the car for years then that would require panel work and likely welding work to properly sort it(or get a rust free part from a scrappers). Rust is car cancer and the only truly effective cure for rust that has gone through the panel is to cut it out and let in new rust free steel. You can hit it with a rust converter but that only converts the very top skin of the rust, leaving it to corrode away underneath, albeit more slowly.