Rusty 944 advice

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GC8 said:

New wings used to cost £235ea. Turbo wings were a fiver cheaper.

Perhaps Porsche saw what a couple of Silver Rose's sold for at auction and applied some tax. Ironically the garage queens won't need new wings, it's the cheaper cars that have never seen a toothbrush that will need some restoration.

[Ryvita]

Updating this thread:

Received a quote through a specialist for £2400 for a full treatment of inner and outer sills both sides, including painting back up in orange.

Got a second opinion from a well reputed general welding repair place, to do the repairs and welding, finished up to a primer stage, final painting to be sorted separately, for £800.

It's in this week, will report back on results... Oh, I've gone for the cheaper place if that wasn't obvious. Fingers crossed that's not false economy. :S

[Ryvita]

As promised bit of an update. The work has now been done and I've got the car back. Photos below, but you can see that there was a fairly huge amount of filler in places, and a lot of rust in patches on the outer sills. I don't have pictures of the inner but they were actually mainly ok - caught it in time just about. The job has been finished roughly in black, but given the nature of the car, it actually looks fine for my purposes (track slag). I may go over it in orange as it used to be, but I may be lazy and just leave it like this.

I would thoroughly recommend the job done by Martin at Carsavers in Aldershot (01252 350650 / https://goo.gl/maps/xQeyCTQCRiaBwvGD9) if anyone is after similar sill work. He seems to have a real passion for welding, uses decently heavy gauge metal, forms it and welds it well, and doesn't charge the earth. Happy days. Now to get the car's other ailment's fixed...

This is all filler... almost a cm thick in places.



A rust hole, filler, rust and more filler



Inner surface of outer sill was gone in places and going in others.



New look with black belly-band



Close up shot. It's not exactly concours spec but it's a damn sight more solid and healthy



Other side. The black slims the car down a bit. I could paint it back to orange but I may well keep it.



Underside. A solid looking sill. his comment was that you could jack the car off those. (I probably wont)

Edited by Ryvita on Tuesday 16th July 13:18

Edited by Ryvita on Tuesday 16th July 13:19

[GC8]

GC8 said:

There isn't a 'going rate'. In typical forum style people like to know more and the prices became exaggerated. £600 became £1,200 and one stupid bint even started claiming that it cost £1,200 per side.

It depends on the car, and the company that you use.

Ive just had new outer sills fabricated, new inters and inner sills, the floors replaced where they meat the inner sills and the bottom of the A-pillar repaired on both sides. The nasty surprise was the rear suspension mounting points and torsion tube mountings, which had been bodged with very convincing looking undersealer at some point. Ive also had the leading edge of the rear wing restored using ready-made panels - everything else was fabricated. Cost so far, £3,000.

The car has to go back in a fortnight to have the battery box replaced and corrosion cut out of the trailing side of the rear wheel arches.

Edited by GC8 on Monday 5th August 15:15