Small rust repair on an Opel Corsa.

[Nodroz]

Hey guys,

My sister is selling her Opel Corsa and she asked me to clean her up a little bit. I saw it had 2 rust spots, one quite long at the front and one round spot, around the wiper mount.

Well, pictures says it all!

I first cleaned the rust very toroughly with a steel brush, then I put some repair kit on it. I made it all smooth with some really fine sandpaper, which took me over 2 hours!

Anyhow, it turned out really nice after 3 layers of paint. No buyer will be able to see the repair.

I'm very sorry that I forgot to take pictures where you could see the ACTUAL rust spot... Sorry.

I guess I'm going to polish it a little bit, so the whole area looks cleaner.

Regards,
Alex

 

[landuse]

Hey, that looks good. How did you match up the paint?

 

[Nodroz]

Hey, that looks good. How did you match up the paint?

I went to the official dealer, Opal, and asked for the exact color that my car has. They ordered it at the big factory and 3 days later I got it.

 

[OzFab]

Nice work for an amateur

One or two tips for next time:
1. If you look closely at the pic of the painted wiper mount you can see the edge of the filler across the top; not quite rubbed down enough but still a great job
2. Filler, primer then paint