it's deffinately worth it to do it early before it gets to rusty. Many hondas develope a whole there because some people dont take care of it early enough. Plus they will already have paint mixed up when they do your trunk so it shouldn't cost too much more.

 

if it's bubbling from the inside out, the rust has already eaten from the inside wheel well out, so just sandblasting it and repainting isn't going to fix the rust. a few more months and it will penetrate back through. the only way to eliminate the rust entirely is to cut out the rusted area and weld in a new piece. I didn't care if it came back, so I just did a kick ass bondo job after cleaning it all up. doesn't look perfect but a whole hell of a lot better. Mine was completely rusted through on both wells.

 

how much will the labor be on that? u think... approx

 

Yea, I heard that's fairly common. I have to try to get rid of all my rust spots. For some reason, I have some along the underside of the driver side door...

 

was your car repainted?

 

do any of you think honda has addressed the rusting problem on the any of the recent model civics?

come to think of it, i have not seen a 1996+ civic with wheel well rott...

 

I'm past the bubbling stage and gone straight to penetration on both sides of the rear wheel wells. Bubbling started about 3 years ago, so Im afraid to know how much it has spread. The front looks great, but the back is totally infected...Bugs da heck out of me.

Been wanting to fix it a few times, but having no experience welding has kept me for taggling this project. Car is too old to put any money in, and I have grown to love it too much to sell it for like 500.

If anyone has pictures of DIY body work they've done to their car I would love to see it. Then maybe i get the courage to do it one day.

Living in Canada, its almost unavoidble; this situation.

Steve

 

Thanks for using the search button, but this post was from 2002. Most of these people don't come here anymore.

In the future, it is best to use the search button to research things, but if you have a question that you cannot find answers to, start a new thread.

 

i subscribed to this 3 years ago.. hahahahaha

car is gone. i'd recommend u just take it to a body shop to cut out the rust and repair it.