I had my car resprayed last year and was very happy with the job, however six months later rust started to come through so i took it back and they fixed it for me, however another six months later the rust bubbles are coming back...

 

Is the only way to permantly fix it to have new metal welded in?

 

If so, how much should i be paying to have this done?

 

cheers guys

I had my car resprayed last year and was very happy with the job, however six months later rust started to come through so i took it back and they fixed it for me, however another six months later the rust bubbles are coming back...

 

Is the only way to permantly fix it to have new metal welded in?

 

If so, how much should i be paying to have this done?

 

cheers guys

 

Yep! New metal is the ONLY way.

How much?? Well that depends how much you need doing and who is going to do it.

I had my car resprayed last year and was very happy with the job, however six months later rust started to come through so i took it back and they fixed it for me, however another six months later the rust bubbles are coming back...

 

Is the only way to permantly fix it to have new metal welded in?

 

If so, how much should i be paying to have this done?

 

cheers guys

 

Mine is suffering the same thing. And, like you, it appeared not long after a full respray :(

Like Pete says, new metal is the only way to keep it rust free for as long as possible.

 

For financial reasons I'm just having to live with it for the moment but I hope to get them done is a year or so...

How much of a problem is rot on the zeds?

How much of a problem is rot on the zeds?

On many early UK zeds it is somewhere between serious and terminal. Many have already been scrapped due to serious rust + the high cost of repairing.

In general imported cars are a better bet, but beware of imports that have been here since 1999/2000/ They too have been exposed to salted roads for 8 years.

Of course there are pristine UK examples hidden away in peoples garages some of whom are on this forum:) and there are odd rusty imports too.

My arches bubbled after a respray also

Although I agree new metal is the only real way to fix this, if your paint shop used filler, this is porous I think, and so the damp/rust gets back through it.

 

If you use glass fibre or something similar after grinding away all the rust it will last many times longer.

 

I used Araldite (?) on a car many years ago, it had the same problem, fixed it completely.