My mates car has some rust on the roof around the sunroof area can anyone recommend a company to deal with this properly? My mate is based in Manchester but the car is currently in Stafford so anywhere around these areas would be great. I would try and get in touch with Beardymatt but i believe he's not trading anymore?
Thanks in advance.
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ross_jsy
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The difficult part will be finding a non scabby roof as they are NLA 
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brettski
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He was hoping they could cut out the area and put fresh metal in. I'd stick a pic up but i'm crap with trying to figure out how to do it!
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Is there any pics on how bad it is with roof lining removed?
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Gert_8
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Isn't the skin too thin to do anything like that? In the majority of cases I have read on the zone, roof rust is generally terminal... 
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Gert_8 wrote:Isn't the skin too thin to do anything like that? In the majority of cases I have read on the zone, roof rust is generally terminal...
usually it's refered to as terminal but it's not impossible to fix just costly, and even if you can do it yourself drilling all those spot welds is tiresome hard work. These days though you could drill all the welds out round the gutters, remove the skin and bond on a carbon roof though i would recommend a thorough understanding of the bonding process / agent used, A few tubes of No more nails is not going to cut it.
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ross_jsy
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I looked into carbon roofs. Without a roll cage it's a no no. And I wouldn't be able to use my caged up car for hill climbing so a loss loss really.
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Brett, i know welder who could do this repair for you (in Manchester)..pm me
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It can be done, on cars with even thinner metal than e30s. Takes a craftsman to do it properly though.
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The fidliest bit I found was finding all the spot welds!
I followed the wiki write up but the spot welds were in different places on one of the ones I removed.
As above the welding can be done it just takes a lot of paitence & time to do it right.
I followed the wiki write up but the spot welds were in different places on one of the ones I removed.
As above the welding can be done it just takes a lot of paitence & time to do it right.
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brettski
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Thanks for all the advise. 