im currently doing a bit of a resto on my sapphire, just started stripping underneath unfortunatly the spare wheel well is quite rotten with a few holes in it, can the boot floor be removed or is it a case of cutting the rotten bit out and replacing it with a good second hand one?

 

how bad is it mate

cant you cut the bad out and weld new metal in

 

its not too bad just the actual bottom where the wheel sits, think ill cut one out of another car and weld that in.

also removed the rear bumper and skirts today, look what i found

 

no one got any advice? would this be best in the resto section?

 

fit a new sill mate

can you make most of it yourself it isnt to hard

if you think thats bad look at my project

http://www.rs-mania.co.uk/forums/ind...opic=8423&st=0

 

also got to deal with this aswell:







might just reshell it instead

 

bugger

 

We have jus done our mates one his wheel well was like that we fibre glassed it!! give the under neath a good look over you may be better off re shelling it!!

 

think reshell is going to be best at the moment as everywhere i look on this one its rotten, so far it needs:

both sides inner sills
both sides outer sills
drivers side rear quarter
passenger side outer arch
drivers side inner arch
rear panel
spare wheel well

quite alot of work there and with paint etc its going to be easier and cheaper to just use it as a donor for another shell.

 

scrap it mate and sell the parts there worth jack shit these day's
anyway sorry to put it like this

 

lol, think ill just keep an eye out for a decent shell, maybe even a 3dr

 

ive seen many saph shells going for scrap and there tidy

put under your sig shell wanted

 

may just do that mate, although ill wait until ive got the cash together first.

still im going to keep this shell and just attempt to do the work myself, lol i reckon its days are numbered then, going to take the angle grinder to the rear quarter today

 

take it easy