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Old Jul 31st, 2018, 14:33   #344
Army
marches on his stomach
 

Last Online: Feb 11th, 2022 03:15
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Somewhere in the Netherlands
Default State of the front LH wing

I expect the RHS to be as bad (!)

It has already had a bit of a crash diet - I've scraped as much as 1cm filler off this panel as well. I haven't started on the underseal yet but I reckon it will be at least 1kg lighter by the time I've finished...

...as was patently obvious when I bought the car the upper rear corner of the wing is rotting away =>





Time to make some repair sections

So far this is the worst bit of rust I've found on the car (there's only the other front wing to check - the rest of the car has been surprisingly rust free)

Can't complain really - it was very visible when I bought the beast

Virtually every hole for mounting the wing to the car and other parts like the front indicators has been ovalised and messed about with. Metal fatigue and bits falling off.

Time for some welding



The headlight bucket was more or less held in there with underseal =>



(And even so was a right royal pain in the bottom to get out!)
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