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Re: The old Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Thu, 1 Feb 2018 20:35:08
In Reply to: Re: The old, Eiron, Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:59:36 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Seat heaters are no big deal to fix if you care about that (I don't use them, even in -30, though my wife likes them)...
Sounds not too bad. I would fix the cosmetics, oil spray it, and drive it until the tranny fails, then part it out. Or maybe find someone else more able to do so if you can't, but recognize that these are getting fewer in numbers and more costly for good ones, so if you enjoy driving it, I would.
If you go to my gallery, you can see some awful rust I fixed up to get a few more years out of our winter beater. I've been meaning to post my dog-leg rust repair work on the 9-5 we bought last fall.
POR15 likes good prep, and does not like to be exposed to moisture. So I plan on doing it when the weather is sunny, warm, and dry, and I try to use the whole can in 1 go (I buy the small sample sized cans). If you have some holes or bubbling rust, you can: wire-brush (drill) the loose stuff off, POR15 it (soaking it through any holes to get as much coverage inside the hole also), then while the POR15 is still wet, soak fiberglass mat in POR15 also and lay that on the hole (if it's a larger hole, you may want to do 2 layers). The repair will be indestructible if all the rust gets coated... then a fine coat of the bondo fine glazing putty (from a tube), prime, paint, wet sand... it can look pretty good, certainly from a distance it will not be noticeable. I would then spray the whole car in an oil based rust proofing spray like Rustcheck or Krown (which can be sprayed in all the body cavities. If the hole is pretty bad, there are other tricks as well if it is not structural. The fenders are not but there is usually more rust than you would see before you dig in.
If you coat a rusted area thoroughly with POR15 after reasonably good prep, it will totally encapsulate the rust and last a long time. c900's have a lot of metal, so if you catch it soon enough, it is probably quite salvageable. I would check under carpets and around the shocks front and back to make sure you have relatively intact floors and structural areas. These cars are pretty tough though.
good luck!
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