New sill now?

[HDI Dave]

personally I'd have bopught some body panel glue and cut some alluminium from the back of an old fluroesant lifgt fitting and patched it.
with a bit of luck you wouldnt even see the patch.
regards Nigel.

I must say that's what would be easiest.My forte is old computer cases for patches! Mind you,it's looking more scary,plenty head scratching going on...

Looks like it could have lived near the coast.When i took the liner out,a perfect line of dirty sand,not mud, came out,where the rust pattern is.How did it get in?! Must have been wet constantly,rotting away unknown



Eeek!


Bit bothered about that bit circled.

I've cut back to bare metal.Going to clean it out and see how it looks.Oh well,happy days!

[tonupteabag]

now its not that bad it does look worse than it is as for the circled bit as long as its got good metal round it it will patch no problems of course taking into account wiring and carpets on the inside if i was closer i would have that done relatively easy (cut my welding teeth on most of the mid 80's to 96 welding austins fords especially transits and whatever else was thrown at the welder) i only do my own cars these days as people don't like paying for the job to be done to a high standard they would rather weld a patch to cover the hole and hide the structural rot behind it but all in all i wouldn't have thought that would be too big a job for a competent welder to get done in about four hours start to finish i would have charged about £100 at the topside

[KennyW]

Hi Davie,

I just noticed the same rusting mine on the rear nearside, i think the problem stems from the way the rear wheel arch is 'sealed' to the body work and water gets in along with all the muck and settles to slowly corrode away.

Kenny

[KennyW]

Hi All,

Here are some pics of my outer sill cleaned up ready for prep work for welding.





The inner sill is a little rusted but will clean up nicely.

Kenny

[andmcit]

I can't say I've ever seen a single Xantia corrode in any spot other than
the rear estate door jamb although x2 Activae has rust blisters on exactly
the same spot of their offside rear wing lip.

I feel ashamed to think I scrapped a bodily perfect '93 sinker VSX TD
- it didn't have a smidge of rust on the entire bodyshell. It had loads
of unwelcome vandal damage to every panel but no rust. That didn't
scrap it though, the engine/pump gave up.

When MIG'ing the shell remember to disconnect the ECU's and alternator.

Xm's can rot quite comprehensively mind, even when galvanised.

Andrew

[citronut]

refering to KannyW's picys i always remove the outter skin of the bottom lip back to one layer of metal, other wise when/if welding to multiple layers of metal with rust in between, it will not weld very easy,

regards malcolm