Recommend a garage to repair rust on door sills, Dublin

todolist

Anyone in Dublin 2,4 or 6 please.I have a 01 micra.Failed nct for rust on two door sills.Plus worn ball joints on front suspension.Would this be expensive? Thinking i may have to scrap the car.Any advice please.

Barnseire

Hate to be the bearere of bad news, but had the sills done on my car. Price depends on how bad they are, but budget for around 300. Both ball joints could be similar.

Henry Ford III

Any garage could repair rusty sills. Cost will depend on the severity. A simple rub down and rust treatment is small stuff, but cutting out/welding in fresh metal isn't.

listermint

pictures ?

colm_mcm

It’s really time to start looking at a newer car.

todolist

colm_mcm wrote: »

It’s really time to start looking at a newer car.

This car was my first ever.Never let me down through the years so i have a big emotional attachment to it.

todolist

Barnseire wrote: »

Hate to be the bearere of bad news, but had the sills done on my car. Price depends on how bad they are, but budget for around 300. Both ball joints could be similar.

Got a quote of 300 for sills and £45 for ball joints today.This was by e-mail so could be more in reality.

colm_mcm

todolist wrote: »

This car was my first ever.Never let me down through the years so i have a big emotional attachment to it.

That’s all well and good, but there are so many better, more comfortable, easier insured and safer cars out there that don’t have rust issues.

Fair enough if you want to keep it forever, but the more you spend now, the more invested in it you’ll be.

CorkMan_

I too had a K11 Micra as my first car almost 20 years ago now. Passed my test in it and it gave me so much freedom, have been all over Ireland and even took it to England! Also a favourite aunt was the first to drive it apart from me and she died in 2006 from cancer so with all them factors I never sold it.

But like Colm said there are better cars out now that are safer/more comfortable etc. I have my micra in storage as my sills are needing sorting too but I aim to do it sometime!

Grolschevik

19 year old Fiesta here. Had to have my sills' rotten bits cut out and new metal welded the last couple of years. First one side, then the other in succeeding years. 100 a side.

Had to get corrosion on wheel arches done too, but that's not what's being asked!

Probably only spent 500 over the last five years on corrosion in total, including matching paint jobs, cutting, and welding. Guy was recommended by my mechanic, so he might be cutting me a deal, of course.

todolist

This micra never cost me a penny or ever let me down.Believe it or not....and remember it's a 2001 micra....the milage is only 54 thousand.Thats why i'm reluctant to part with it.

todolist

Think with only 54 thousand miles it would be worth spending the money to keep
it on the road?

colm_mcm

No.

That said - you’ll only be spending relatively small money fixing it, so while it doesn’t make sense spending the value of the car on repairs, it’s still cheap motoring either way.

kermitpwee

todolist wrote: »

Think with only 54 thousand miles it would be worth spending the money to okeep
it on the road?

Yes it's worth repairing. Some brutal advice here tbh.
Say it costs 500 to nct it for the year.
Where are you going to buy a car for 500 that is as good as your own?
I am insuring a 00 yaris for 450 with axa so insurance can be had cheap on old cars.
Also saying that it doesn't make sense to spend more than the value of the car on repairs is totally wrong.
You could spend 4k and get a ball of muck.
Repair it if the car is as good as you say

todolist

It only has 54k on the clock.I have it 18 years.Never broke down or let me down so maybe i owe her whatever it costs to keep on the road.Have to decide this weekend one way or another.

Pops_20

I think you should keep it. I'm a big advocate for keeping older cars going - you could get a similar 10 year old small car
for €4-5k and it could give you endless trouble. You know this car, you know how it has been treated. You can't say that for any other car on the market.

If you scrap it I think you will regret it, and there's no coming back from that.

Atoms for Peace

How bad is the rust? A wire brush and a can of spray paint may get it through the nct if it's only surface rust.

todolist

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

How bad is the rust? A wire brush and a can of spray paint may get it through the nct if it's only surface rust.

last year i had to get one of the sills done.Had to get a new piece welded on.I'd imagine its the same again.

astarcut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/110844837#Comment_110844837

what was the garage you went to, I have two rear driver door sill and front passenger door sill rotten.

todolist

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121798998#Comment_121798998

I got mine done in 2019. Hopkins and Lockhart, Athlumney Villas Renelagh. It was expensive. A mate of mine got work done on his car last week in a place on The Sunshine industeral estate on the Crumlin Road Dublin 12. Lads are Polish and very reasonable.Get the name of it if you 're interested.