Lee1972

Both of my front wings are now starting to rust quite badly around the lights and along the lip on the wheel arch. Rather than remove the rust on the arch for what would be the third time I wonder if it would be better just to replace them both.

Anyone know if theyre still avaliable from Ford?

If so would you know the price and product code?

I know its a lot to ask but my local Ford parts garage are useless!

Cheers

Lee

dave green

Seen them on E-bay .


Dave

Aaroncast

hi, how bad?? surface rust ?? or rotten??
new ones are mega expensive and there's not a lot of wing for your money really------- you see second hand ones on e bay but new ones are rare
have your gone past the repair stage then??

Lee1972

The rust on the arch has been repaired twice already, person I took it to said the only way to get rid of it would be to cut it out. The rust around the light has just started to bubble up but its getting worse by the month.

What I was thinking of doing was getting a full respay but its no point spending a couple of grand on that if 6 months later the rust just comes back

I read somewhere that they were £300 each from Ford, not really a problem if you can still get them!

Ebay might be the way

SortedCossie

mine have a bit of rust starting where they meet the skirt extension where some twat hasn't repaired some stone chip damage properly.

as said it needs cutting out to get rid properly.

CHRISNISS

hi i asked this and only LH side are available from fords part number 6689417 £248.17 + vat

GUZZLER

iTrader: (3)

take the car to a good bodyshop, if the take them back a bit & seal them properly they should last for some time.

cozzfather

iTrader: (1)

if you remove your wings carefully,you can offset the cost of new ones
by selling your old ones,you would be surprised how much stuff comes
out of bodyshops damaged but repairable and ends up on ebay

THE RADMAN

iTrader: (2)

the majority of the ones that appear on ebay are s/hand and pretty tatty really

gareth589

Hi fella, not sure which mag but it was either Fast Ford or Performance Ford.

A company are doing acid dipping and the re zincing the pannel, they did a mk 1 escort as a demo to sow how good it was, they state any rust is killed and will not come back doing it this way. the feature was within the last 3 months, so maybe contact them and find out.

Hope this gives you a bit of help.

Gareth

Arnie

Read that article and it was mighty impressive. but still need to repair the bit where the rust used to be though

Lee1972

Dont have the mag, does that mean the rust still has to be cut out?

Think thats what i`ll end up doing, i`m just in two minds as a new panel should last another ten years, dont think any repair no matter how good will last anywhere near as long.

gareth589

From what the article said, it does not matter about cutting the rust out, as the pannel is dipped in acid and this eats the affected area clean away.

They then ethch primer the pannel to prevent surface rust appearing, its like what they do at the factory from new, same process.

When i saw the shell they used and the difference after they had done the dip and etch primer, I thought way to go and their certain that the rust will not come back.

Try and obtain the magazine with the feature as I think it will be of some help to you.

Regards

Gareth

paulxr2

was this company that did the work

http://www.surfaceprocessing.co.uk/

Spax

try and give these guys a call

www.fordpartsuk.com