Im looking to replace the rear quater panels on a eg. Do I need to cut or weld or snip the old panels off? Do they unbolt like a fender?

 

they are welded into the car's unibody... how you cut them off is entirely up to you, though a cutoff wheel is the preferred way.

 

You have to cut it off, they sell wheel arches for our Honda's which you weld onto your car after u cut out the entire quarter or you can measure and align sheet metal to it and if your an experienced body man you wont be able to tell the diffference between the two so both are the best options on fixing the cancer at the rear. Good luck

 

Talk to
johnny23toronto

he has a post on the body work hes done on his back fenders here is a link to his thread THREAD LINK and also here is his web site where he has shown his work WEB SITE. Hope this can help you out a bit

 

Thats a pritty good page he put together. Now I know what Im up against.

Awesome!

 

How bads the rust Mike?

 

Well, its about 1,1/2" X 1,1/2" both sides. Typical spot and size..but is not that bad.

 

a body shop can handle that problem, you usually cut the metal another 1"-1.5" past the rust because its like a cancer that will turn good metal bad around it....

 

I'm facing the same problem... cancer...big time... both sides

 

i thaught mine looked bad. Mine is nothing like that. Thats definately like cancer man.

 

Thanks for the refernce man.

As for Hybrid_hatch, No offence Hybrid_Hatch, but your car's in serious trouble. I bet that your rear jacking point isn't even safe.

You see the hole, well, inside your car the rust has actually worn through to the brakelight all the way up to the bottom of the drivers door.

Thats some serious work.

Consider just using fibreglass or getting a body shop to glass it, then you've got yourself a nice winter beater. But the truth is that unless you weld in new metal, your in for some problems later.

As it stands, you'll have mice and bee's nesting in your car. Don't laugh, I have had both!

 

actually I'm picking up some of the cheap *** quarters from canada press or somethign like that. Im going to do a cut and weld, then touch up on any other areas that need attention, then bare shell respray.

I think mice well living in the car. when I ripped out the interior yesterday, I found all kinds of filthy stuff.

 

my car doesn't even look like it has rust compared to that... i think "biggy" used to have some major rust but did something to fix it

 

damn hybrid
what year is that?

 

Thats not cancer on your car man, more like leprosy....
I've never seen so much rust on a honda before.