How fucked is it? Should I keep driving it, try to pawn it off on someone or sell for scrap?
Filler and paint makes me the welder I ain't
Never tried it, looks like it is just your kind of thing.
depends how deep it is on the inner sill. the outer sill is easy, you can probably buy a panel for cheap (if it's worth bothering)inner sills can be difficult because there's usually multiple coalescing panels, but it just depends on the car
>>28846245actually i see that your automobile is body on frame, so the inner sill is probably relatively easy to patch. im guessing you dont have a wrench let alone a mig welder though, so.
>>28846247>im guessing you dont have a wrenchYou assumed wrong>mig welderNo
>>28846290Gas Axe is an art. If you can then learn the art of welding the proper way.
>>28846210Is the vehicle BOF or unibody? One it's fine, the other it isn't.
>>28846306Is that bongease for "cutting torch" since you call flash lights torches?
>>28846210My car is so, so much worse
>>28846750You can melt things together just as easily as you can melt them apart.Chicken poo welds are for kids and modern manufacturing..
op here>>28846308According to wikipedia and AI search result it's unibody. Car is 06 Toyota Rav4 Limited. I don't know how important this is hence the thread. I do my own oil, brakes, some minor stuff like alternator and hvac wire repair but this is out of my wheelhouse. >>28846306Gotta be honest I don't see myself investing in welding equipment for this. I only paid $4k leafbucks for the car. I can't see any other situation I would use the welder to get value. My current wrenching gear already takes up enough room in my apartment>>28846760So how bad is it for a unibody chassis to have rocker panel rust like that? Searching around I see anywhere from "it's fine i've seen worse" to "this should not be on the road you will die"
>>28847007I basically have no rocker panels left. I bought this car to hold me over so i could put my real daily down for major work, which is finishing up now. Once I get my truck back from the trans rebuild I intend to sell or scrap this immediately. I wouldnt worry about your shitbox that much, but it'll definitely get worse if you ignore it
>>28847007You can rice it out with side skirts and shit to cover the rust. I did that with fender flares and an Aliexpress grill on my 03 forester
>>28847118You can get spray cans of pain in your cars color from the door tag. I did this like 5 years ago to cover my rusty wheel arches and other than the clear coat failing it looks good.
