Rust

Bridget1996

Hi

Im looking to see how much it would cost to get my car sorted, it has patch of rust on top of car about size of euro coin, it will only get worse, is there a quick fix I can do or am I looking at getting top of car resprayed and how much roughly, I am going to be driving this car for another year or so..

GreeBo

You can rebid the rust and prime it, or get some rust stop type product, but you'd want to be removing the paint around it to make sure you are getting it all and stop it spreading.

What's the plan after a year, is it sellable or scrapable?

If it's rusting I'm assuming is old, probably not worth doing anything to it.
You could go to a dent repair type place and get a quote.

JohnBoy26

What kind of car is it and what year?

Bridget1996

GreeBo wrote: »

You can rebid the rust and prime it, or get some rust stop type product, but you'd want to be removing the paint around it to make sure you are getting it all and stop it spreading.

What's the plan after a year, is it sellable or scrapable?

If it's rusting I'm assuming is old, probably not worth doing anything to it.
You could go to a dent repair type place and get a quote.

Its a 09, I would rather get it looked by someone professional, its more the paint is coming off and it looks brown underneath so Im presuming it is rust

biko

What model is this car 09?
If you tell us what county you're in we can recommend someone to have a look.

Bridget1996

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

What kind of car is it and what year?

09 Skoda superb

Bridget1996

biko wrote: »

What model is this car 09?
If you tell us what county you're in we can recommend someone to have a look.

09 Skoda Superb, in co . Meath, border of Dublin and Kildare, thanks

Alanstrainor

Unfortunately OP these things are never easy to put right, and never really cheap. To do it proper the rust will have to be removed, depending on how bad that will mean grinding it back and using filler to make it flush. If the rust is more advanced things get a bit more drastic. But the paint job always ends up being rather large as it will have to be blended in to the rest of the panel.

Very hard to give prices without at least a picture.

Wibbs

What Alan said. Rust is like an iceberg, what you can see is only the tip and more lies beneath. So a coin sized patch is probably a beer mat sized piece of metal affected. Hitting it with those rust killer solutions is a temporary measure at best. They only hit the very top thin layer of rust(I only use the stuff after I've ground back to good steel to kill off any microscopic rust I can't see, then zinc primer, then paint). The corrosion continues on behind it. Unless it was a stone chip left unsorted, the rust you see on the panel almost certainly comes from behind the panel. Any bubbling in paintwork is a sign of that. The metal rust from behind, goes porous and the gasses from the corrosion process cause the paint bubbles you see.

Though as AlanS also says a picture would be a great help.