hiya everyone
Weall know classic scoobys rot on the rear archhes especaillly ive just bought a turbo 2000 thats started where the rear bumpler meets the arch , can you buy replacement panels for them anywhere to weld in or does anyone know of anyone one in the sheffield area who has repaired anyones to a reasonable standard cheers in advance

 

You can buy new panels, they cost about 1k from subaru (unpainted), or you can find a good body shop and get them done, wont be the cheapest of jobs though

Tony

 

cheers for that tony does noone do a patten part tho

 

Just subaru, 1k for both rear panels, Moley WRX looked into doing this to his classic, think he may have gone to a scrapyard instead, if its not bad then a bodyshop can do miracles

Tony

 

A good body shop will be able to sort it for you buddy. Mine also needs doing so I'm going to take the hit and book it in. I would guess it's going to cost around £400 to do both sides to a decent standard.

 

I happened to notice bubbling on my rear arch yesterday so I'd be interested to know about this!!

 

Same here!

 

it happens as its a twin skin at the rear, and the water gets stuck between the two, thats what i have been told anyway.

 

wet mud sits on the lip in the wheel arches. i had mine done just over a year ago when i had car resprayed, i scraped all mud out and undersealed it but one of them has bubbled back through.

 

Look at the sort of effect rust has on your car, Gazza has done a great job on restoring this one (lots of before and after pics! )

https://www.scoobynet.com/members-ga...rae-001-a.html

Tony

 

my drivers side is worse than the the passenger side, hopefully when the weather gets better I will get then sanded down and touched up to take the bad look off of it until I can get it sorted out properly.

windyboy

 

Touched up?
You will probably need the full panel respraying
Mine had some very minor blisters on, no heavy rust so I had them done, they needed to go back to metal for 2 inches above the arch though he did a great job and its not come back
That was in the manchester area so reasonably priced (i had some other bits done at the same time)
Tony

 

you will prob find like Tony says, you will need the skin cutting back and new metal put in, as there frst from the inside to outer paint work. if you start to get blisters in the paint, even if you sand down, put rust treatment on and paint, it will come back soon. the only way to do it is to cut the rot out

 

agreed having just done mine, the small blisters are the tip of the iceberg as it rots from the inside. only way is to cut it all out or it will be back 6 months later.

 

ive never understood why they dont do rear arch liners like they do on the front ???

 

where the heck was that thing kept,in the ocean !?!?!? Never seen a classic with so much rust,that was worse than an old escort !!!

 

You havnt seen my rear arch yet. Its not that bad, but part of it is actually coming away from the car!

I think we should have a wall of rot, haha! I have gotta do something about mine this year, im debating a reshell, cause i cannot justify spending money on getting the rear arch sorted when ive got rot on the roof and some laquer peeling off the boot. May aswell get a nice tidy shell to start with.

 

Intrigued now,you gotta show us !!