How to repair a large rusted out area on your vehicle

I'm just showing one way of a quick Diy repair without using a welder and patch metal this is a fairly easy process with little experience and tools needed, there are much better ways of doing this (welding on a jobber panel or patching with metal) but this is just a very cheep way no welding or experience in metal work needed and if the vehicle is rust proofed after the repairs and every season afterwards it will last for many years.
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Tools:

Grinder or rotary tool
Hammer
Paint brush
Paint scraper
Palm sander (optional)
Mixing board (old piece of sheet metal)
Sanding block (block of wood)
Body File

Materials:

Grinding Disks
Rust Mort (if you can't remove all the rust)
Short or long stand fiber glass filler (bondo Glass)
Fiber glass cloth for cars not boats
Body filler (Polyester body filler)
Spot putty
Wax paper (the stuff you use in the kitchen)
Sand paper 80, 120, 240 grit
Primer (use the stuff for autos only)
Top coat (color match paint)
Clear coat

[nine]

Not even going to review whatever negative comments people speak of. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you!

[highlow]

For the purest. They will always criticize. But for the guy on a budget. This is awesome. Everyone don't have welders or air compressed tools. I appreciate this video for what it is. Great job.

[witchcraftauto]

this is actually brilliant, for those of us that want to extend the lives of our beaters, this man has the solution! 7 years later and still relevant

[farmalmta]

Oh my word, the criticisms! Look, what this guy is doing is helping out those of us who drive our vehicles into the ground. Along the way, they get battered and sometimes rusty. Do you take an 8 year old car with perhaps 8 more years of life to a professional body shop and pay $1000's for show quality repairs of a beater or do you just want the daily driver to look decent until the day it throws a rod out the oil pan? If the latter, do what this guy is showing and get it done while not making a body shop rich. Stop criticizing the repairs this guy is demonstrating just because they won't win concours auto shows. That's totally not what he's demonstrating. These are decent economical repairs for what they're intended for people who are going to DIY.

[woodbark]

Very clever use of wax paper for shaping. This method also helps to minimize the amount of sanding. For better dust control in the finishing process, I would certainly encourage the use of more hand tools like files and sanding blocks. This is obviously not the method for restoring a classic car but for your every day beater with only a few more years of life left in it, it's quite adequate.

[Arawashj]

I like the idea...this might not be the real fix, it's a poor man's fix. This will help alot of us that don't have welding skills or tools. Thnx for the video

[AllSkitzd]

Hey I am a Professional DIY Video Critic and I have a lot to say about this video. 1. It offends all the body shop pro's that for some reason watch DIY videos in their free time. 2. See now you got all the rookies commenting looking stupid by saying cut and weld a new panel on, that is such a hack fix. Correct way is to replace the entire car. 3. Most of the pro's haven't finished editing their videos BUT WHEN THEY DO....! You know they have to be sweet with the comments they are leaving.

[icanhasbase]

Awesome work.

Something to note for the all the pros who are trash talking. I know body work is not "work" for you guys, it's "art" (and I respect that). Where you guys go wrong is disregarding that it's not worth putting $1000 work into a $3000 car. If I am going to drop $1000 I'm looking at my brakes, bearings, suspension and tires long before I'm looking at the body work. I'll take a hack there any day to save a grand.

[atomgonuclear]

Dude. I was skeptical at first, but you did a great cosmetic DIY fix. To the people who claim this area is structural.... They literally have no idea how a car works or is built whatsoever. It's considered the quarter panel. On most cars they are removable. They aren't structural. Good job

[tonitavares-jakubec]

Thank you, I appreciate your time, and those folks with more positive things to contribute!

[Cymus]

Lol when you were mixing and scraping it reminded me of bob ross. :)

[howardhawkjr.]

I wont even bother reading the negative posts, but in his defense, its not a Porsche and it did the job. Fiberglass has structural integrity and I have used this method on small repairs on a 4x4 that gets twisted and articulated off road and I haven't seen any sign of the repair coming apart. So hey, there may be a better way for those master techs and engineers with expensive tig welders or those who can afford to pay a fabricator 100/hour to make it bulletproof, but in the end this repair did its job and I'm sure will last longer than the car. So kurtscottage don't sweat the negative people. The world will never have a shortage of them. What the world needs is more people like you who go for it and make a positive difference. I used polyester resin with fiberglass, but you gave me the idea of short strand with fiberglass and it looks a heck of a lot easier and quicker. Thank you

[Noahinthe]

Despite all the hate you received on most of these rust repair videos Kurt, thanks for them regardless! I think it's fine for a daily beater or winter car as you stated in the disclaimers. Up here in VT we have some crazy Winters and even crazier road salt. Eats these things alive. Great for a quick patch up job on something you wouldn't dream of throwing replacement panels to. Even if it is the "hack" way 😁

[Sensaatioko]

That waxpaper was a pro tip. I have never tough it. Thx

[johnpowell]

Thanks for sharing this. Now, I feel like I can do my own work on my old work vehicle. I just use it for hauling building material; including dirt, cement, sand, etc. It doesn't have to be perfect, just safe from the elements.

[guy]

I know this is a very old video but this is the best tip I have ever got on YouTube. Thank you sir. It's works so good, you could never spread this stuff good enough in difficult places and have it come out so well without your tip. Thank again.

[desmondmccray]

Truly one of the most helpful videos I have seen.. Thank you

[adamskead]

Very smart using the bondo as glue my dumbass was about to spend an extra 50$ including shipping to buy the resin to hold the fiber glass cloth

[kad]

There are a lot of haters out there.everyone is saying he shouldn't do this or that way.But most of the professional does the same thing just a little bit better and charge you a arm and a leg for it.Kurt keep doing what you are doing not everyone have 1000 to 1200 to give away to some of these so call professional paint shops.

[heikkipinomaa]

Kurt, you are The Man! Thank you for make this kind of videos for all of us. It will take some patience to get it done sometimes and it seems to be that you have it all.