OldSlowReliable Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 1k sounds kinda steep personally.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpathy Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 The $1000 also includes taxes (which are 14.5% up here). Don't forget that most everything is more expensive up here then it is in the US (for no good reason, but that is nothing new). I will still think about it. Might go see another body shop to get another quote just to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekazgtr1984 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 1K isn't bad at all. I got quoted $1700 for just the rear quarters and new paint. So 1K is pretty decent. The best I've found for the quarters, new fenders and fresh paint all around was ~$2,400. Anywhere near the 3K mark for all that seems pretty good to me. There are two ways to think about it. 1. Get it fixed for a fair price from your friend and know it is good. 2. Spray everything down with stop rust that is available from several manufacturers and cover them back up with the flares and just live with it. I am the type person that option two sounds good but it would drive me crazy knowing the cancer was there. James Agreed. I have OCD so I couldn't live with that for long... guess thats what i get for not payin attention No worries. For the most part, rust on vehicles built in Japan is a pretty common occurence. They have snow in Northern Japan (Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, for example) but they don't salt the roads IIRC. Therefore, most of these vehicles aren't designed with salt in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howie Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Okay, so how does one go about PREVENTING this kind of damage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petespath Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 My fenders are the same. The flares get filled with mud, snow , sand and ice and it just starts to eat away the metal because if holds the moisture in. Not the best design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamzan Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The $1000 also includes taxes (which are 14.5% up here). Don't forget that most everything is more expensive up here then it is in the US (for no good reason, but that is nothing new). I will still think about it. Might go see another body shop to get another quote just to be sure. Check out five star industrial painting on Cleopatra off of merivale road. That is where I took my dads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Okay, so how does one go about PREVENTING this kind of damage? Puttign your truck in a museum the day it rolls off the factory line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpathy Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 (edited) Puttign your truck in a museum the day it rolls off the factory line? I was thinking more in the range of covering it in plastic-wrap... At least you would still be able to drive it around Edited January 11, 2011 by Northernpathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 As long as whoever wraps it don't go from 1 door- under car- other door- over car over and over and over and over - etc. Etc. Yea I got him back for that... Sorry off topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skulptr Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 1K isn't bad at all. I got quoted $1700 for just the rear quarters and new paint. So 1K is pretty decent. The best I've found for the quarters, new fenders and fresh paint all around was ~$2,400. Anywhere near the 3K mark for all that seems pretty good to me. every one of you is lucky to even get a quote. not one single shop here will fix rust. 75% of the shops actually laughed at me when i asked for a quote to fix it. and my cancer is minimal, 2 small spots 3 inches long on the passenger rear. but i know its going to spread like a disease since its bubbling up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magregor Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Man, Al, I didn't think your Pathy had any rust! not from the few times I saw it! Ahh well, I have repaired both of my Pathy's, Judge's Pathy and dududuckling's pathy AND a bit on Adamzan's, so I am no stranger to the wonderful body rust on our trucks! Good luck and welcome to the rust club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift220 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Yea your going to spend quite a bit to fix any kind of rust like that. Anything less then a grand and your either getting a huge deal or a crappy job. How to prevent it? Like someone else already mentioned, cleaning under the flares often enough. You can also get a rust proofing spray and maybe even some of that clear 3m film and put it between the paint and flares. Otherwise sell the rig before it comes through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpathy Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 (edited) I dropped the truck off at the body guy today so that he can repair the damage on the rear panels. Should be finished in a couple of days. He is just going to repair the rear panels and leave it at primer. I am going to take on the job of putting on the new front fenders and repainting the ENTIRE truck. So I got to working on the new front two fenders. Here is the passenger side panel on the work bench. Since I am NOT going to re-install the fender flares, I needed to plug up the holes. I was told that some places sell some plastic inserts which block up the holes, but I decided to weld them up instead. It will look better and lessen the chance of any rusting in the holes that were meant to hold the fender flares in place. But just as I started looking at the fenders to plan the attack, I realized that the fenders oddly have extra holes in them. Both fenders have them in the same place. I have no idea what they are meant for. I thought that maybe some trucks had a plastic trim that ran down the side of the body, and that is what these holes were meant for, but I have looked online and can't find a picture of any 99-2003 R50 that has trim like that. I double checked the info on the boxes that the fenders came in. They both say "Nissan Pathfinder 99-2002". Really odd. I really don't have any idea why they are there. Oh well, luckily I am there to plug up some holes anyways. Two more holes to plug is nothing big. Onto the work. I started by cutting out small pieces of sheet metal to put behind the holes. Once I had cut out 9 little pieces, I was ready to weld. To hold them in place properly, I temporary put some tape on the pieces. I forgot to take pictures of this on the passengers side fender, but here is a picture of them on the other fender. Then a little bit of sanding so that I can do the welding. Next I gave each piece one tack weld to hold it in place. Now that the pieces were being held in place, I could remove the tape. I didn't want to keep the tape on there any longer than I needed to, as the welding would just melt/burn the tape. Then I finished welding the holes closed with the mig. Would have been better to do it with a tig welder, but I don't have one. But a mig will work fine, you just need to do some extra grinding. After I finished filling in the holes, I grinded things down smooth. After some extra sanding/grinding, it was ready for primer. I also gave the inside of the fender with the patches two coats of primer as well so. Didn't bother to take a picture of that though. I repeated the procedure on the drivers side fender as well. All is good. I hung them up in the parts room to dry. I gave them two coats of primer. The repair job is just about perfect. But I will likely need to touch them up ever so slightly with some bondo to get rid of 2-3 slight scratches from the grinding. I wanted to prime them before I touched them up because the primer causes the imperfections to show up a lot easier. I doubt I will need to mix up more than a teaspoon of bondo to fix up the slight imperfections. Should look the holes were never there once I am finished. Tomorrow I do the little bit of bondo work, then I am going to do something to make sure the fenders will not rust out again Edited January 11, 2011 by Northernpathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Nice work. I have a fender hanging in our garage too. Mine didnt have the holes for the flares, or the extra holes either... I assume they're for some of the extra cladding that some of the pathy's have?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpathy Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 I could have bought some after-market fenders without the holes for the fender flares, but I got for a good price. Was worth the extra work to get rid of the holes for the price I paid for the fenders Looked online some more, and I still can't find a picture of a pathy with something that use those holes. But I have found a few places online that sell the fender with those holes as well. Oh well. As long as it fits on the truck, I will be happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpathy Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 (edited) Rear fenders fixed: Covered the inside of the new front fenders with rocker guard. Should last longer than the original. Then I replaced the front fender: I will get to the other fender tomorrow. Should look a lot better once the entire truck is painted. Edited January 11, 2011 by Northernpathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekazgtr1984 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Nice work on that rust! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laxman0324 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 That is excellent work...I will never remove my fender flares for fear of what I find... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantOnCeRoad2 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 You might also want to check under the rear bumper. I've got a 99.5 that I pulled the flares on earlier this year. It spent the first year of its life in New York and then the rest of its time in Tennessee, but even I have had some issues with rust. I pulled the bumpers off to start on some custom bumpers and found a nice hole behind the rear cover. So now before I can finish the bumpers I have to fix this spot. (same hole just knocked the rust out.) Might also want to check behind the plastic front wheel well liners, as I had a good amount of random dirt and stuff packed in there. And I have never wheeled this truck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frecklecolouredbrain Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 they salt there instead of chemicals?? that would be your problem. move to anthoer state! lol and i put flares ON just to hide my little rust patches over the rear passenger. Ha! I did the same thing just before winter. The sad thing is that I know It will only last so long. Now, if they only made plastic rocker panel covers I'd be laughin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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