So for the last few years my truck has had a couple paint bubbles around the wheel wells. Well yesterday i touched and a chunck fell out. So in my anger i finally hit the spots with a flap wheel to see how bad it actually was. The worst is a hole size of a quarter. I guess i need some patch panels from LMC or something. Anyone gone through this and done it themselves?

 

ah that stinks.....seeing that on a few other guys trucks scares me to death to happen to mine.

 

My panels ain't too far from doing the same.

 

mines doing that too. If you search there are a couple threads on it. You can "repair" it yourself, but it's going to be tough to get it to come out looking real nice. I think the best repair is to bondo and paint it once you've got all the rust off, seal up the back side with rubberizer or whatever, then get some nice fender flares to cover up the paint job that will inevitably not look quite right. But at least it will hold off the rust for a while. You can get a shop to do it but it will be pricey.

 

I'm going to just fill it and then as little bondo as possible then just use the perfect match paint advance has. Hopefully next year I can get a welder and put a patch panel in. I'm so jealous of the south west. Hey here is the 1940's car. It has minor surface rust.

 

My 2002 had 2 blisters on the bed on the passenger side. Paid a shop 500 to fix it. three years ago. that side has been good.
Drivers side starting now.

 

Had painted underneath the hood with POR 15 to stop the blistering. That has seemed to work,

 

sand the area spray it with POR 15 and then get a new panel welded in there (or just use massive amounts of bondo... and and then get it painted.

White is a tough color to get matched so be patient if you are painting it yourself.

 

Man, that sucks. I hate seeing these. After living in Arkansas for so long and not having to worry about rust, these threads are a wake up call that I need to be washing my truck more not that I live someplace where they actually have to salt the roads. Only problem is it's rarely above freezing lately. Funny, I grew up in NE Pennsylvania, but I've been gone so long I forgot all about the propensity for rust on vehicles that have to survive those winters...

 

i did a really thoruogh write up on treatment of this, ill see if i can find it. also, lmc started offering bedsides for 3rd gens recently btw