Rusty Subie + Bondo + Miller Lite Beer Can = ?

[daehttub2000]

I procrastinated about fixing a rust spot on my 95 Subie behind the rear wheel well and when I finally got to it I discovered that it was perforated… D’oh:dead: When I removed the rotted sheet metal, it left a golf ball sized hole. It was too big to just plug with bondo and I didn’t want to do the sheet metal/rivet thing and the Auto stores were closed so… I cut out a piece of a Miller Lite beer can to patch the hole. It wedged in tight and I completed the repair with rust remover, bondo, primer, paint, and clear coat. I used bondo on the backside of the repair to seal it. Ugly job but nobody looks inside the wheel well…

 

Will this last or buckle with the next major temperature change? I’ve got a another spot to fix and was just wondering…

[ogiesdad]

I'd use something a little heavier than a beer can, you can get scraps of galvanized steel from a local HVAC contractor (ductwork scraps). If the body metal isn't too bad, just rivet the corners of the patch from the outside and glop it up.

[Reveeen]

There is another way to *look* at this...............

 

If your quarters are rusty, so are too your front fenders. Strangely the part that doesn't rust on your front fender will fit almost exactly the other side rear quarter.

Speaking of fenders, the bit that rusts (directly behind the front wheel) is the same from 1990-1999, so with a un-rusted junkyard fender (in that area), you take the side moulding off and do the join under the moulding, replacing the moulding when done, no one the wiser! (leaving plenty of wheel arch left to repair the far side quarter).

[Setright]

Fixing your car with a used beer can. Creative for sure, and very cheap, but hardly a a long term solution