Hello everyone,
Firstly let me apologise if I have posted this to the wrong area. I've only just found this forum so am newer than a new thing!
I'm looking for some advice on a repair that I'm doing to a sill - actually a matching repair to both sides. I wish I could say that it was for some exotic motor, but it's for a 13 year old Chrysler Grand Voyager.
I'm getting the car ready for an MoT and I noticed that the rear sills were a little to easy to poke a finger through!
These two areas have been repaired before - offside shown below:
As you can see below, I have started to clean up the area to see where the good metal starts and finishes.....and to find out that the previous welding has quite a few areas where the metal was blown through before being covered up with underseal.
I have also discovered (as seen in the triangular shape on the right side of the previous repair - below) that someone has put good metal over bad.
I have a fair idea what sort of answer I will get, but:
Should I grind back the previous repair and get rid of all the bad metal before repairing......or, should just patch things up?
I'm not looking for a 'Concours' finish, but something better than the previous attempt, and more importantly something safe and that will easily pass an MoT.
All advice very gratefully received.
Argee
Firstly let me apologise if I have posted this to the wrong area. I've only just found this forum so am newer than a new thing!
I'm looking for some advice on a repair that I'm doing to a sill - actually a matching repair to both sides. I wish I could say that it was for some exotic motor, but it's for a 13 year old Chrysler Grand Voyager.
I'm getting the car ready for an MoT and I noticed that the rear sills were a little to easy to poke a finger through!
These two areas have been repaired before - offside shown below:
As you can see below, I have started to clean up the area to see where the good metal starts and finishes.....and to find out that the previous welding has quite a few areas where the metal was blown through before being covered up with underseal.
I have also discovered (as seen in the triangular shape on the right side of the previous repair - below) that someone has put good metal over bad.
I have a fair idea what sort of answer I will get, but:
Should I grind back the previous repair and get rid of all the bad metal before repairing......or, should just patch things up?
I'm not looking for a 'Concours' finish, but something better than the previous attempt, and more importantly something safe and that will easily pass an MoT.
All advice very gratefully received.
Argee