Any ideas on the proper way to fix this? Lower passenger side rear door and bottom of rear hatch.
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Paint issues
- Thread starter Jason49311
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I can't download the images, but if you're referring to rust along where the skin laps over on the inside edge, IMO the easiest and therefore the best thing to do is to just touch it up with a brush. scrape off as much loose paint as you must, then get a half-inch artist's brush and do it. Load the brush and pull it across in one smooth motion. If your paint matches ok it'll look ok. If you're going to try to sand it and spray it it's going to become a big job and unless your a pro, it's still not going to look very good.
I had decent luck dealing with similar issues on my son's old Protege5 using POR15 to arrest the rust and provide a base coat. It bought us about 3 more years before the rust returned living in salt-happy Michigan. Had we re-coated, we might have even got more life out of it. You actually don't want to make the surface too clean with POR15, it needs something to attach itself to, so prep is pretty easy. Just remove everything that's loose, coat it, let it dry, top coat it with paint. Lots of decent "how to's" on the tube of you's.
Just a word of warning: If you get it on your skin, you're going to wear it for about a month.
Just a word of warning: If you get it on your skin, you're going to wear it for about a month.
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