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coastiewithjeep
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Jul 12, 2007, 8:34 PM

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The rocker panel on the driver side of my 95 Cherokee is severely corroded. The outside of the panel is all but nonexistent from the driver side door all the way to the rear. I considered patching but am not sure that will work. Anyone know what I can expect to pay at a shop to have this replaced?


Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 13, 2007, 5:43 AM

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These are difficult and expensive to replace. They do make aftermarket pieces for many vehicles and if that one is common for this it's likely to be available. Best is to check with a local body shop. I bought a whole bunch of these parts for an 84 S-10 Blazer and can't recall the company but they had everything but they were only for the Chevys.

Keep trying and perhaps search for restorations/parts/body and see what might be out there,

T



coastiewithjeep
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Jul 13, 2007, 9:56 AM

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I have found sources that have panels availabe which aren't expensive at all. The thing is I'm not sure if this is something I want to get involved in. I know welders who have the equipment however they aren't auto body specialists and I don't want to end up cutting too much/little and end up with an even bigger problem. I was told you can spray foam in the panel and bondo over it but the research I've done there suggests the trapping of moisture and subsequent rusting can be disasterous. That and when I take the wire disk to this I think I'm going to find there isn't much left at all.


Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 13, 2007, 5:01 PM

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It's sad but RUST has been the demise of every car I've ever owned that I would have kept forever and trust me I would have. It's a losing battle but several times I got years more out of them and it all came back or hidden from sight showed up elsewhere.

The work I had done on the S-10 Blazer was to make it look decent but not to be perfect and those had such rust problems the road dirt would spray into the rear of the thing so something had to give. Custom shaping the metal is wicked hard and expensive and I did that once to a 69 Lincoln. The pieces that I got outlasted other rust and were installed by a real body shop but they were no where near what you would want for a fine restoration.

You can't win against rust without a total dismatling of the car boil it in acid and get all new OEM parts for where it rusted and folks do that to real rare collectible cars at staggaring expense.

It really depends on your expectations of the job as to how hard it will be.

You are right, the parts are not the worst of it but the labor and time can be incredible depending on what you want,

T







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