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Nick Posted a lot Posts: 2,483	Repairing the floor.Nick @rearwheelnick
	Apr 30, 2005 13:54:30 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Well since i am turning my e30 into stripped out drift/ghetto mobile, i am obviously de interioring it slowly but surely, just lifted the carpet on the passenger rear footwell bit and it is absolutely fuggin soakin, literall just wet through, and what looks like to be a very dodgy repair, since i don't have a socket set at hand today (lent it) i cant take my passenger seat out to get carpet up to inspect further... but i am betting that my car is going to need repairs to the floor. so can someone tell me how to do them (good chance itl just get sent to a garage if its real bad, but id stil like to know the proper technique) ...as ive never had much to do with rotten floors before,so am not familiar with any special procedures and stuff. so can some kind soul enlighten me ;D From a slightly fed up Nick
	idea stolen from rattely eddie. this weeks car count "5"

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nickb Guest	Repairing the floor.nickb @GUEST
	Apr 30, 2005 14:02:59 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Properly properly would be to remove the whole floor panel and weld a new one in. It's one hella job. As your car's gonna be a drift slag and originality / appearance isn't highest on the list, can you not just plate it up? You could also use repair sections of BMW floor panel rather than doing the whole thing. (PS... how comes your one is so damn rusty?)


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Nick Posted a lot Posts: 2,483	Repairing the floor.Nick @rearwheelnick
	Apr 30, 2005 14:18:51 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	duno, its probably just been abused like curse word and i bought it at night wearing rose tinted glasses aswell, not the best move ever but ah well. i might just plate it up then in some manner then i guess. add that to getting the sills sorted, aswell as the arches and the rust on the doors, ive got my plate full with this car. wouldnt mind but i bought on the thinkin that its not full on real old car so it shudnt be that bad. but i just keep finding more curse word
	idea stolen from rattely eddie. this weeks car count "5"

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Revolution 9 Posted hell of a lot "Just a loony lefty with an Imp fetish!" Posts: 5,882	Repairing the floor.Revolution 9 @revolution
	Apr 30, 2005 20:42:07 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Well, one bit of advice I could give you, before you remove the section you're going to replace of the floor, make sure that you remove the doors, and weld in bracing in the door opening, to ensure that the shell retains structural rigidity, but you can still get at the inside of the car to make the repairs, because otherwise you'd have to have the door open, and you'd run the risk of the shell (which would be weakened by having a section cut out of the floor) being permanantly warped by the loss of rigidity and subsequent bending. Well, I think so, there are probably loads of you who actually do know your are from your elbows who will tell me that I've been talking bullsht and tell us all an effective way to do it! ;D ;D ;D
	"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

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