Rust Repair Advice

[jamiedgwilson]

I've a 1988 starlet that unfortunately succumbed to some rust. As is usual in this sort of thing, the more you look the more rust you find. I'm not too concerned about the smallish holes on the bodywork but there is an awkward bit underneath that will need repairing.

The issue is that I don't know enough about welding to know how big a job this will be. I can't see any obvious place to cut it out. The real question is does anyone have any thoughts on the scale of cost to repair this?

Although I'm fond of the car (been in my wife's family since new) I'm not sure if the repair costs just wouldn't be worth it.

I've uploaded a video to try to show the extent - any advice is greatly appreciated!

https://youtu.be/88bdjHYc8EU

[nickv]

open heart surgery required there i am afraid

It will be quite expensive i would imagine as not sure that there are many panels available for these starlet's, so would most likey mean quite a bit of hand fabrication work required.

A fairly large section would need to be chopped out of the 1/4 panel to allow decent access to weld the inner stuff, trying to do anything from the rear area only would result in a huge bodge.

As for price hard to say 20hrs plus more maybe, and that would exclude paintwork.

Edited by nickv on Thursday 28th May 12:55

[jamiedgwilson]

Thanks for the reply - unfortunately I was expecting something like that.

What's a welder actually charge? £30p/h? So even at a conservative estimate probably around £600 plus prep and paint.