dealing with door rust

[ben rawlings]

my ledbury maestro has suffered from the usual rust in the back corners of the front doors.

as i am starting to drive the ledbury in september on a prvisional licence i want to get the bodywork sorted and i decided to start on the doors.

basically ive grinded the door skin away where the rust was and i can now see inside the door.

now what do you people think....shall i just fill it or sahll i get it done properly and get a new piece of metal welded in at a bodyshop. also can anyone tell me roughly how much it would be to get metal welded in at a bodyshop in both back corners of the front doors as the passenger side door and the drivers door have rusted.


cheers in advance

[Jack]

Do it properly - it'll last longer and look better. Having said that, the body shop may distort the panel when welding so....

My J-reg diesel has immaculate door bottoms. Why? The old codger who had it from new before me took the door cards off and wiped vaseline over the internals. The only bit where there is any rust is next to the window pillar above the handle, which I believe is a fairly common rust spot too (so give that a good coating of wax if you can).

[ben rawlings]

thats interesting...ive heared about putting waxoil etc in the doors but never vaseline. good tip that.

[E_T_V]

Its all the same theory. Keep the water away from the door seams and it'll last a lot longer.