Hey All,

I took some up close pix of some of the body rust/bubbles with the F150 I just bought. I was thinking of getting it fixed up or possibly having a buddy grind the rust off and do some bondo work and try to cover up the repairs with either some kinda chrome or maybe do a two tone along the bottom that I have seen on some trucks, seeing as how its blue I was thinking some kinda silver color? If we do it in the back yard kinda thing (well my garage lol) it would probably be way too hard to try to match the paint and make it look seamless. I imagine with all the different locations it would cost a pretty penny to have a body shop fix it all and match the paint, but maybe I'm wrong as the rust doesn't seem that bad, but enough to bother me lol.

Any ideas anyone?

More pix to come in another post, I maxed out this one already lol

 

More pix of the cancer :-(

 

Use a bug shield on the hood, they actually look pretty decent. Paint the bumper black or have it rechromed. Use dura glass filler right over the rust holes after you grind out the loose stuff. It will hold, done it a bunch. Normal putty body fillers will crack out without a full repair of the infected metal.

 

Pay a body shop to do it. Unless you have really good body repair skills.

 

Thanks for the thoughts guys. Considering my abilities and that I want it to look nice I was leaning on the body shop idea but I dunno how much I'm probably looking at and if its worth it for a truck that I paid $5k for... I don't wanna end up paying a huge amount and not have it be worth it. Considering the truck books for a lot more than I paid for it (KBB said retail is over $10 and trade in is about what I paid for it) I'm thinking it may be worth it, but I have no idea where to even begin to think in ball park figures. I mean if its gonna cost me $5k in body work it prob won't be worth fixing, but I've never had a rust repair done before so I'm clueless on numbers.

-Justin

 

I had the same kinda thing with the rust on the bottom of the doors so this is what i did with the bed liner paint

 

That looks pretty sweet. What did you do for prep work?

 

i taped everything off first then bought a couple scuff pads and sand paper and put on like 3 coats

 

Had a few rust bubbles on the bottom of a few of my doors also. Spent a few hours last weekend, cutting out the rust and putting in some new steel. Overall I was pretty happy with how it turned out. The paint was just matching spray paint I got at the local auto store, it matches perfect.

Once you get to grinding, you find out the paint bubbles aren't just bubbles.

 

Looks like it was all on the bottom where the rock chip coating is too. That matching spray paint will go over that real easy and almost never notice if you put some texture back on it. Looks good skizriz!