lord_galathon
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The plastic trim on the Sidekick was loose, the car is 16 years old this year and as of this winter I no longer have a spot to store it so I want to prepare it/rustproof it as best I can. It runs well and is loads of fun with the soft-top down + I want to keep it for my daughter to drive next spring when she gets her license.
I removed the trim altogether and I can tell right away I will have issues:
On the rear, the trim was attached to an added body strip of metal WELDED to the rest of the bodywork.
This is after washing it and stripping off the rustproofing oil and grease from the past 16 years. This is what it looked before I washed it:
Yeah, that's welded on. Any ideas on how to remove it?
Should I sand it down good and put plastic over it instead, then sand it down and repaint?
Plugging the holes. They're huge, the size of spoiler holes. There are a shit load of them. 10 on each door + easily another 15 per side, that's about 50 holes to fill.
How the heck do I do that efficiently? It's going to take a month of 9/5 work all day to get it done properly.
Any ideas?
I removed the trim altogether and I can tell right away I will have issues:
On the rear, the trim was attached to an added body strip of metal WELDED to the rest of the bodywork.
This is after washing it and stripping off the rustproofing oil and grease from the past 16 years. This is what it looked before I washed it:
Yeah, that's welded on. Any ideas on how to remove it?
Should I sand it down good and put plastic over it instead, then sand it down and repaint?
Plugging the holes. They're huge, the size of spoiler holes. There are a shit load of them. 10 on each door + easily another 15 per side, that's about 50 holes to fill.
How the heck do I do that efficiently? It's going to take a month of 9/5 work all day to get it done properly.
Any ideas?