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[jpw1275]

Kinda reminds me of mine hehe..... That's the worst thing I found out is poking around hehe but at least it'll be sorted..:0)

Keep up the good work

James

[jpw1275]

I take it it's a full inner sill jobby ? How's the door step ? Hopefully you will do yours before me and hopefully you will put a lot of pictures up so I can copy hehe

Cheers james

[SAL 821X]

Nice MOT job on the inner sill there mate!!!! 

[minimissions]

I take it it's a full inner sill jobby ? How's the door step ? Hopefully you will do yours before me and hopefully you will put a lot of pictures up so I can copy hehe

Cheers james

haha Yeah I will be a full inner sill this side and will need to repair the floor also... as far as I can see the door step is good some minor chips but think its all good. I hope haha.... I will keep the pics coming I hope they manage to help you out :)

[minimissions]

Nice MOT job on the inner sill there mate!!!! 

Yeah that's exactly what it is isn't it lol A quick cover up for the MOT to keep her going back in the day.

[jpw1275]

I take it it's a full inner sill jobby ? How's the door step ? Hopefully you will do yours before me and hopefully you will put a lot of pictures up so I can copy hehe
Cheers james

haha Yeah I will be a full inner sill this side and will need to repair the floor also... as far as I can see the door step is good some minor chips but think its all good. I hope haha.... I will keep the pics coming I hope they manage to help you out :)

I hope the steps are ok !!! I thought mine where until I took the door rubber off lol

And then when I took the doors off to my horror the a posts had gone aswell .... Bloody thing lol

Cheers James

[minimissions]

 

 

I take it it's a full inner sill jobby ? How's the door step ? Hopefully you will do yours before me and hopefully you will put a lot of pictures up so I can copy hehe
Cheers james

haha Yeah I will be a full inner sill this side and will need to repair the floor also... as far as I can see the door step is good some minor chips but think its all good. I hope haha.... I will keep the pics coming I hope they manage to help you out :)

I hope the steps are ok !!! I thought mine where until I took the door rubber off lol

And then when I took the doors off to my horror the a posts had gone aswell .... Bloody thing lol

Cheers James

 

Wow sounds like it was quite bad, i have had to do my flitch and A-panel on the drivers side by door step and post seems ok. Got to love minis.... your build looks like its coming along nicely

[jpw1275]

Maybe coming along but not nicely lol.... Thankyou kind sir

Cheers james

[James_eaton_thewholething]

bad repairs to help mr mot man pass the car and the hidden rust is the reason i had to replace the whole floor, door step / A posts and hinge panels. i just love how they hold rust hidden behind things. i got told by a guy at work that he had a sound mini because he and his son had removed some paint and treated some rust with rust converter and repainted it. it was one of these I've bought a so called repaired mini thats had tonnes of welding done. he wouldn't listen to me when i was talking about the stuff they hide because of lazy repairs ah well alt east we will all know that our cars are 99.9% rust free haha.  

[minimissions]

bad repairs to help mr mot man pass the car and the hidden rust is the reason i had to replace the whole floor, door step / A posts and hinge panels. i just love how they hold rust hidden behind things. i got told by a guy at work that he had a sound mini because he and his son had removed some paint and treated some rust with rust converter and repainted it. it was one of these I've bought a so called repaired mini thats had tonnes of welding done. he wouldn't listen to me when i was talking about the stuff they hide because of lazy repairs ah well alt east we will all know that our cars are 99.9% rust free haha.  

Yeah completely understand this mini other than the front end and doors didn't look to bad all before I started, I mean for a mid 90's spi mini any it looked ok. Like you say its those quick bodged mot repairs that have caused more problems than if it had just all been left alone so annoying! But at the end if should no a least that its all solid and back to being honest. Once this side is done on floors sills etc it will be time to do some tidying around the back and some also at the front door skins then the massive task of prep and paint starts...

[Daz1968]

Doing well, it is these quick repairs that take the most time to sort out properly.

[James_eaton_thewholething]

I'm looking forward to getting to be able to paint prep I've got a while yet but will be there soon. I can't believe how bad mid 90's to end of production car rust definitely a lot of people didn't check things and just passed over the point of unfinished cars because they looked nice on top.

[minimissions]

Doing well, it is these quick repairs that take the most time to sort out properly.

Thanks Daz., and yes this is true...

[minimissions]

I'm looking forward to getting to be able to paint prep I've got a while yet but will be there soon. I can't believe how bad mid 90's to end of production car rust definitely a lot of people didn't check things and just passed over the point of unfinished cars because they looked nice on top.

Yeah I cant wait, your project looks like its coming along nicely. And yeah tell me about it they are defo worse my girlfriends has a 89 mini flame its got bits wrong with it but no where near as bad as this was. Yeah a car can look nice on top but its amazing how many people don't look over a car properly...

[minimissions]

Hi all update time, sorry for the lack of update a of late I have been doing a lot of welding to my father in laws Mini Cooper so haven't had so much time on my projects, but anyway got a few hours in the garage managed to cut the rest of the inner sill out and also a small piece of the floor that has had a bodged repair on it. Also I have welded the holes I made on the front valance up as I will not be going wth a chin spoiler on my build now.

Here are some pics comments welcome. Next step is to get the floor ready for the inner sill.









That's all for now I have primed the cut areas with some zinc weld through primer, comments welcome sorry for the poor pics

Edited by minimissions, 13 December 2015 - 03:17 PM.