Cheapest way to fix rusted quarter panels?
What are the cheapest, but still look good "do it yourself", ways to fix a hole and rust on a qrt panel on a 1989 honda crx. The one hole on the passenger side is the size of a softball and the other is maybe the size of 2 quarters. Any ideas? The color is red and everywhere is seems to be pretty solid.
It isn't pretty solid if it has a hole the size of a softball. Your best bet it's buy prefabricated quater panels, cut out the old and weld in the new. If well-sealed in the back this will hold up. Cheapest way is to cut out the rust back to completely rust-free metal (if any) then pop-rivet galvanized sheet metal to the back. (You can also get counter-sunk pop rivets.) Then bondo and paint it. Any bondo schemes which are not backed by metal will fall out in months.
The cheapest route would be bondo. They sell it at Walmart. You can either use mesh then bondo, or fill the hole with expanding foam the sand it till its flush and bondo over it. Or you can use fiberglass which they also sell at Walmart. If you want something to last use patch panels. I would not recommend bondo mainly do to when moisture gets in it, over time it will crack. But as far as cheap goes, bondo is your best and easiest route.
Hi so here in the united kingdom we now have issues with using glass fibre of structural panels. So it is not acceptable to be used and the car will fail an ~MOT when it has one. Yes it is noticeable with a magnet. So time to get new panels welded in as they should be.
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