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Originally Posted by bdyman
i give it about 3 months and you will see the rivets, and yes it does sound like you hacked your car, if its one thing i hate its people hacking a car
if ya did it the correct way it would last allot longer, and probabaly not look like it was slapped on
its a pet peeve of mine, i had to redo so many cars like yours and it is like why not do it the right way the first time, so they come to me and bitch and moan about paying all this money, lesson learned i guess
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Sorry to offend you with how I fixed it but you missed my point. I don't like doing finish work and I don't have the equipment to do finish work. If I wanted it perfect and thought that my car is worth the $ to make it perfect, I'd pay someone to make it perfect.
You should be happy to earn all that work from people like me who hack up their cars and have you fix them. I assume that you charge $ for your work, right? The last thing that I want to do give my hard earned money to someone who does not appreciate my money as much as I do. Don't worry about having to redo my car. You would not be hired to redo my hack job if I decided to have it redone. Keep up that kind of attitude toward your work and sooner or later you won't have to worry about working on anyone's car.
Anyway, the rivets don't show up any more after several years then they do when the repair is new. I've been hacking on my Jeep in this exact same manner for close to 10 years now. It has 196,000 miles. I still wheel it off-road and drive in the winter over salted roads. The repairs I do are to prevent it from rusting again. This involves making sure that water has a place to drain and that the metel is properly cloated. It's a simple plan and it looks good enough to me. It's mine to hack if I want to.
Here's a photo of my Jeep. I'm making clearance for the hatch after an encounter with a big rock. The rear quarters were almost gone. I repaired them exactly as described above around 9 years ago. There are rivets under under black texture coating. Please show me where the repair has failed.
http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/k...=Dsc05998a.jpg