Today we're gonna fix that rust issue! The Windshield was a bit of a pain to take off. That's worst than we though... Prepared and sanded! I don't have a picture of the mastic sorry :/ Android is weird sometimes End tomorow! (Deleting extra mastics, painting and stuff.) Edit: Sorry for the double post
You're in for a world of pain. Thats not sanded at all and youre best off with cutting it out and fabricating a new piece. IF you slap body filler on it right now all you will do is trap moisture inside and it will bee much worse in a year
Indeed. It's just to stop rust from spreading around. We need to change the front windscreen and the insurance won't really be okay if they discover such a big rust hole. In a few years it will be my daily, and until there, my father need it to go to the train station I will also train on it (accompanied driving). We basically have the Week-end to make a temporally fix. And don't worry it wasn't all theway sanded when I took the photo. It's only bare metal under here now. I'm not a massive fan on what we're doing. It's not clean you know. But that's what most garage would do. I'm really curious of why this part have rusted so much btw. As I said, this car count a lot for me, we're not going to do an awful job on it.
With the job you've done, it's going to spread fast, that needs cutting and welding pretty bad. It's rusted there because that's the bottom of the window seal, the French cars are notorious for poor build so it's possible the seal wasn't water tight in first place, but even if it was, seals degrade over time
Stuff not done today, but in the past while. Got a 97 Jeep ZJ (not technically mine, yet, but it'll be what I daily). 155k miles, 5.2L. Two weeks ago (roughly), I put new shocks on it, as it had original ones before. Also put new tires on it, and fixed its radiator leak.
I know. If we were to weld, we would had to dismount the dashboard, cut this very small and fragile part, and redo it knowing there's pretty nowhere we can weld it on. Don't worry I won't do such an ugly job on the 403. The car will be entirely dismounted and sanded with a sander. Every rust spot will be replaced with new metal. The same will be done with the Golf on day. But not now. As I said, we had to fix this issue quickly and provisionaringly (If it's a word) Without forgetting water was falling onto the electric central making not particularly good.
I gave my old Girl a a bath, then i played Race Driver on some Backroads and hit a Rabbit @ 100 kph So i had to "Repair" the Damage (Bumper Cracked, Fog Light came lose, and it is a Pain in the A** to reach your Hand behind the Bumper) And while i was at it i "fixed" another Bumper Crack (hit a pheasant in the Winter) I hope she is not pissed of
I can never say anything bad about those ZJ's, after what we put my buddy's 95 through, although it was a 4.0, not a 318, that being said, the Chrysler 318 is only of the only engines I can think of that is tougher than that 4.0 I-6. It went probably 250 miles without a drop of coolant or a water pump, has done 85 MPH on the interstate for hours, held flat to the floor smashing through the woods, been in water up to the door handles, jumped off snow drifts, pulled trucks that were alot bigger than it out of places it should never have been able to reach, welded the rear end and treated it like a rally car, we even starting crashing into stuff for fun with it. He only got rid of it because it was going through as much oil as it was gas, after several thousand miles of abuse.
Was about to say that early Cherokees and Grand Cherokees are actually pretty reliable, but Peterbilt covered that already.
Actually you see WJ's often but most ZJ's have been scrapped (and were less common) which is a shame as I really like the way they look .
So for my E39, I changed the oil, replaced the interior bulbs to LED bulbs, and cleaned it completely! I also bought a 1984 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, something that I didn't mention before. It's a project car, and slowly but surely, its transforming. Completely removed the sagging headliner, took out the interior lights, vacuumed the inside of it, opened the rear passenger door that hasn't been opened in EIGHT years (the jeep alone hasn't been moved in eight years), and now I ordered a bunch of parts that are needed to get it running. It's been a long day! Here's the beast itself!
They rock! I'm so happy that I got this one on a steal! It just has a lot to be done with it, and that's the joy of it! I have long checklist of things that have to be done to it, like getting it started. The parts can't get here soon enough!
Their reputation here, isnt insane unreliability, but they are known for not being reliable. But they're dirty so expensive to tax, fuel drinking so expensive to run when we pay 6usd per us gallon. And when they do go wrong, parts for them are insanely expensive. But that goes for most American vehicles here. The slating you guys give German cars for being expensive to repair, doesn't apply here, We're near Germany and can get the parts. The slating you guys give German cars instead applies to American cars where we can't get the parts. I've known two people with them have relatively simple issues be so prohibitively expensive that if the insurance company knew, it would be an insurance write off. Fancy paying 2000 dollars for an AC compressor before labor? Fancy a 500 dollar oil filter?
