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Need rust advice



I want to at least touch it up , but I don't know anything about body work. It only has 131K miles so it has a lot of life left..
 
If you clean that up with a wire brush and a scotch brite then rattle can it black (with like semi gloss spray paint) and maybe glue that rubber back, it would not attract nearly as much attention from a potential buyer. Y'know, if they never notice it you never have to explain type thing.
 




what would use to paint it? It's hard to sand because the rust is so bad its kind of a indent. I was poking holes in it until I couldnt go any further then I took the picture. The rust does go deeper though, but not much
 
Plain old black spray paint is fine. I patch rust for a living and that spot on that car ... just ain't worth even bondo-ing. If it was an old musclecar restoration, that would be a two layer welded steel patch. For a Grand Am on a car lot, just make it look better and go on. As a bodyman, I would rather see rusty spots cleaned and preserved until they can be fixed right, rather than somebody trying to bury them. Finding a bunch of rust under bondo is when I laugh and point at the car and call everyone over to look.
 


chances are, if it's rusted out there. Like the rest of 2door GA's i've looked at. that whole 1/4 panel is ****ed. Cant see it due to the massive bodymoulding / sideskirt. I would just do the same thing everybody else has mentioned. If it's honestly that rusty, don't expect to get a crazy amount for it.

If you just want it gone, take whatever decent offer your given, and take off lol. Thats what i did when i sold my 2 prior Gp's. they were rusty as hell, and the buyer was asking all sorts of questions. He said a price, and i took it instantly. His peices of rust now ahah
 
Do the GA and the GP 2 doors always rust there? I wanted to hide it because its really a beautiful car other than that.. I want to get a good amount of change for it.

Im still kinda thinking about cutting the rust out, bondo, undercoat, and paint it.. I can't afford to have the buyer notice it because its really the only thing wrong and its such a small and useless area..
 
idrivejunk said:
Plain old black spray paint is fine. I patch rust for a living and that spot on that car ... just ain't worth even bondo-ing. If it was an old musclecar restoration, that would be a two layer welded steel patch. For a Grand Am on a car lot, just make it look better and go on. As a bodyman, I would rather see rusty spots cleaned and preserved until they can be fixed right, rather than somebody trying to bury them. Finding a bunch of rust under bondo is when I laugh and point at the car and call everyone over to look.
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Im a body guy to and work in a restoration shop and when I see that I dont laugh cause then you gotta grind all that **** out and then you know the whole car is half assed and probably has a bunch of bad body work hidden underneath all over, its just like opening a can of worms. Plus no one is ever gonna fix that rust the right way because to repair that right it would cost more then the car is worth, Im sure you know...
 
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