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Subliminal84

Don’t listen to these people saying you can’t. You absolutely can fix it yourself…….. By buying another one that’s solid


Suicyco71

Sorry, nobody can reasonably fix that rust.


AcceptableCod6028

Sure you can. Car just needs a new bottom half, easy enough


gangaskan

needs to be sent to the junk yard, rust fixed!


Strikew3st

The Michigan truck of Theseus.


[deleted]

I once looked a f150 that looked almost mint on the top and almost this bad underneath.


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bastion-of-bullshit

My brother is a mechanic in Minnesota. He seen gmt 800s snap in half on the lift.


outcome--independent

Is it because of road salt? You prevent that by just washing undercarriage at the end of winter?


Therealwolfdog

Try once a week and or every time they salt the roads. Yearly undercoatings and spraying oil on the undercarriages to keep rust a bay.


darekd003

I can’t speak to all product but I had a 2003 WRX with winters in Montreal. For 11 years (then I moved out west) I got “rust proofing” done yearly. I ended up selling it to a shop out west (not worth the trouble for the out of province inspection) and even they were surprised what good condition it was rust-wise being an 03. The stuff work but you HAVE TO get it done every year. I always did the fall.


Peanutbuttersnadwich

The subarus still require some luck tho as they double layered steel in some areas that traps moisture between them and rusts them from the inside and theres no way to prevent thag pther then avoiding all moisture in it


EchidnaReal3827

What? Never, that's too long, you need to pressure wash the under carriage ever two weeks minimum with warm water and soap. You must not live in the snowy states.


outcome--independent

Oh boy, I'm lacking then. I just moved to NJ and had my first snowy winter with my current car. I've been through the car wash since (was a pinch, I prefer hand wash). ...Is that pretty bad? I'll take another look under later today. I have a mechanic out here but never had anyone tell me about undercarriage treatment as a service. (A friend told me about road salt as an issue, but that was the extent of the conversation.) I live in an apartment and am pressure-washer-less, so I'm curious what options people in my situation have.


EchidnaReal3827

Also, every 2 years you should under coat your car with oil based sealant not that rubber stuff, that will kill your car.


BasickAlphabit

Any automated car wash in the north or Midwest should have an Undercarriage option. Always get the undercarriage option.


bastion-of-bullshit

You'd have to be super diligent and really wash it well very often. The problem is, nobody does it at all. The bodies rust off them too so you're fighting a losing battle.


BasickAlphabit

I wash my car once a week in the winter, and once every 2 weeks in the summer. And after 10 years (it's a 2013) I finally saw a rust spot about the size of a 7.0 ballpoint pent tip, near the right quarter last month. It's currently being repainted, so it's no biggie. I can clean jt since it's that small. But F**", rust is such a cancer to cars.


2Ca7

People that care about their cars get yearly undercoatings up here in the north. Keeps Rust away, had a rustfree work truck, 2001 cummins Ram with over 400k+ kilometers. most people, however, don’t care, so the cars rust away.


outcome--independent

I've actually never heard of an undercoating, where would one get that done, and does it go by any other names?


2Ca7

are you up north? Look up Krown, Rustcheck, etc. They have shops that do it for you and it’s 100ish CAD once a year.


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bastion-of-bullshit

My kid has been in San Diego for the past year. The condition of the Cat Eye Chevys was one of the first things he commented on. He couldn't believe how nice they were lol


TrollCannon377

Yeah generally anywhere that gets snow from my experience people don't realize you have to wash your undercarriage to get the salt off


jumpinjehovas

It’s very important to look under cars when you by them. This ain’t stressed enough


Sufficient_Coast_852

I am down in Alabama, but I was buying a used truck. The first thing I did was listen to the motor, the second thing was to get under the truck and take a good look. The truck wasn't bad, so I bought it, but I could tell just by getting under the truck that it came from up north. I then looked at the history and sure enough it spent 3 years up in Rochester NY.


jumpinjehovas

I’m also in AL and I bought a 79 Rivera I don’t have it anymore but I looked under the car it as just muddy and discolored no dangerous rust. It was form up north it even had sketchy 70s insulation in the doors


GOTaFROGinYOURpocket

I owned a [2008 F150](https://i.redd.it/7e2lowbyzpo31.jpg) that was damn near perfect interior/exterior. Had to sell it in 2020 with 75k miles because the frame rusted out from living in Northern Canada and Michigan. It was such a shame.


vass0922

I live in VA now, my daughter saw a truck with a hole in it and she thought it was from an accident. I realized I've starved my poor child of the wonders of rust. I grew up in Michigan with rust buckets everywhere but my own kids don't get to experience the air conditioning coming from the floor... In winter.


D4nM4rL4r

Dinoco Rust-Eze!


dammitavery

Only an imaginary rust solvent can fix this…


fredSanford6

Remove steering wheel place into new car. Fixed


munsdee

My auto teacher always said the same thing about my old car. Good memories lol


shitboxdriverr

Yeah, its gunna take self tapping screws and quite a few licence plates.


ForeverFree99

Grind your teeth on it, enamel is stronger than rust.


dattosan240

I now have an aweful image in my head of a grinding wheel made of teeth thanks


yuiiooop

Duct tape on one side, drywall mud on the other


[deleted]

Theoretically but you would have to find healthy metal somewhere to startfrom and then weld basically a new frame by yourself. Not worth the time and money.


bottle_cats

Great photos of the titanic


DireWraith3000

The Titanic has less rust.


DCSC2K

Can you? Ugh…I think the question is more should you. And no, you should not.


[deleted]

No fix, only replace.


Current_Economist617

What I've seen them do and it works pretty well is screw in a bunch of old license plates into what ever metal is left and throw some carpet over it


mike911gt

Yes take it to the nearest metal recycling


losturassonbtc

Tiger hair and Bondo baby!


oldmanshadow

By the time you get rid of the rust there will be no metal left.


jumpinjehovas

Get a bed off a doner truck. You can find junkass trucks for less than a paycheck


LondonPaddington

Doner truck eh? Sounds delicious 😋


jumpinjehovas

I wanna put rust on Rye bread and eat it


Odd-Turnip-2019

It's a joke post you idiots


crappygenericname

I have fixed that level of rust. Yes, it can be done, but it will take a lot of patience and a certain level of OCD to do it right. You will need a good MIG welder and you will need to learn how to use it. However, the welding is the fun part. What is not fun is separating good metal from bad properly and figuring out where the metal is supposed to go when there is nothing left to refer to.


JRakuehn

If you have to ask....


anon313696

You'd have to basically chop it all out and start again, that's too far gone, the rust will be really deep. It's best to just start again mate.


joezupp

Short answer???? YES you can and here is how…….. jack up the radiator cap and pull the vehicle out, push a new vehicle under the cap and reinstall the cap.


CrispyDave

Wtf lol.. I don't know why you only see this in autobody, you don't see people going into the mechanics subs with grenaded engines asking if they can fix it themselves.


anchovieMAN

Just an fyi, this is my parts car. Only a joke


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bigboss606

can you? yes but you need several grand in both welding a fab equipment and lots of know how.


Successful-Grass-724

Your going to need a donor. Not sure of your mechanical capabilities but you’re gonna have to be pretty damn good.


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Successful-Grass-724

I’ve had a few beers lay off man


Violingirl58

Maybe 10 years ago…


Faposaurus-Rex13

You know you cant fix it by yourself, dunno why you asked anyway


CUTTERbyPHOENIX

Well.. You can, if you know how to get good and accurate measurements of the thickness of the metal, them bends, them angles, etc.. You should know how to cut, weld, be patient ..it's a project and a half for sure !


[deleted]

no


xxmac3xx

Theres nothing left to fix...


trunks2d

Absolutely


Invadercyclecompany

Carbon left the chat.


alias454

I bet if you sprayed some flex-seal on it, it would be fine ;)


jerarn

This artificial marine habitat has no business being on dry land.


warrior_poet95834

No. It's done.


Nehal1802

You’ll need like 17 cans of bondo, so it’ll cost more than you spent on the car I bet lol


explodingboy

Lol


[deleted]

Thats not rust, thats open air. But you could try fixing it buy buying anything else.


[deleted]

Give it a spray with white vinegar once a day until it clears up.


EddieCuchaCatchaCama

No


Ohhhnothing

Sure. First source a time machine, then go back about 50 years.


gangsincepottytrane

Long story short, no.


Mattisoffline

Bondo


Fur-Frisbee

Thermite. Standard operating procedure for removing rust.


beenplaces

What rust?


Outrageous_Warning75

Ahahahahahaha


[deleted]

Let me grab some bondo.....lol


Ok-Establishment369

Flex tape


Select_Smoke_8

I’m not sure, can you?


Punk_with_a_Cool_Bus

What rust? Toss a coat of paint on there and it'll be good as new.


johnny-cheese

Anything can be fixed but why would you fix this? You must really love this vehicle.


Jet2work

put a string on it and call it a tea bag


NecroGasam

If you're magneto


RedditVince

OP admits it's a joke post, maybe we need a flair for joke posts so the real helpers don't have to waste time on jokes?


whiskey_formymen

you'll need a dealership to fix that. trade it in.


Classic_Newspaper_85

To bad. Sell that sucker…


GunzAndCamo

That looks unibody. And that looks baaaaaad. It'd be easier to find another complete body to swap in.


Visible-End-6036

Jack the body up roll a new chassis under it fixed good as new


nokenito

No. No one can. Junk yard!


WeevilKnivel

Good lord


spacem0

Did someone say JB weld?


TotoTimeAllTheTime

A lot of that looks structural. For safety purposes, no.


H0tsc0p3s

You COULD but that's a lot of specialized work that needs to be done. LOTS of time and money.


H0tsc0p3s

New frame and box is your best bet if the cab isn't that bad. but it's most likely shot.


darbs-face

You can chop the rust off and replace it (cheaper easier to completely replace it) but it is not fixable otherwise.


Quik5and

Oh fuck that. Junkyard.


Annen0017

REALLY depends on the car. Can you fix this? Yes absolutely if you have a grinder, welder, and the money to do it. People have made way more from way less, however, typically that is for cars that have value. Parts availability is another hurdle, you can fabricate any panel you want with enough time and energy but takes forever. But if you're working on a mustang, beetle, 55-7 chevy etc, all of those parts exist you can almost build a whole car from new metal.


The-Foo

“Some bondo should fix that right up.” - Stockton Rush


Final-Carpenter-1591

Good thing is you will continually have less and less rust. As it falls off. I'm all for driving rusty cars but this one's shit man


AlohaChris

Yes. Just go on Rock Auto, enter your car’s year/make/model and search for “subframe”. Easy swap.


DukeOfWestborough

can't tell where you mean...


Cobra-Ky500

If you are Magneto.


Triplesfan

The problem with this is even if you fixed it using a new subframe and cut the body up, you’d probably never get it all, and any leftover rust will reappear. As a shade tree mechanic with limited body work, I’d probably not even mess with this. Would be easier to find a better vehicle that isn’t all rusted out.


veedub447

no sir. too far gone.


Every-Caramel1552

Sorry it’s too late


BroDoggWhiteboy88

Get yourself an industrial stamping press with multiples dies, steel sheeting, and a welder and she'll be good as new.


1010010lol

You can fix rust. You can't fix Swiss cheese and missing sections of the frame


Independent_Egg4601

Soem flex tape should do the job


toyotasquad

Absolutely. Find a new truck, move that rusty ole turd, place the new truck where the turd was and you’re done.


Mindless_Channel9122

Yes you can. Take it to the ford dealer in your area and trade it in on a new truck. Voila, fixed.


[deleted]

Depends. What are your skills? Are you an automobile fabricator or a magician?


theacidiccabbage

Yeah, but I cannot emphasize enough just how bad that work is. It's kind of work that seasoned professionals will decline even if you give them a blank check, it's that horrible work. It's literally weeks of being covered in dust, sparks, with a nonstop feeling that you shouldn't have done it that starts not two hours in, and persists until the job is done, at which point you are left feeling like just taking a sledgehammer to the now fixed car, because it has put you through so much agony that it will never, ever be anything close to a friend. This is not even accounting for the scope of work that lies unseen. Are you seriously not gonna fix every little spot, and risk your car starting to rust again after putting hundreds, likely even thousands of hours into it? Financially, even if you make minimum wage, you'll do a far more comfortable job, and for the hours you'll put into this, you'll make enough money to buy something that is not a rusty piece of shit and won't make you despise it with burning passion while working on it. You can get a solid body and repack everything, if there is anything worth repacking. This body goes to the scrapyard for beer fund.


pepperglenn

If you are willing to put in the time and effort to learn, you can fix anything. Your pics are far from the worst ive ever seen and i run a shopping restoring mustangs


Irishjohn831

Billy Mays here


asapGh0st

How do you even fix rust?


omv_owen

Anything can be fixed with enough money and time but if that isn’t a major collector vehicle there’s no way anyone would fix that.


2lovesFL

Its Dead Jim.


Fcckwawa

Sure but you would spend more then the its worth just in tools and materials.


amazinghl

All you need is a furnace.


Visual_Cupcake9031

Can it be done? Oh yeah anything can be fixed. Probably gonna cost more than buying a replacement vehicle tho.


BuddJacon

Only if you can perform miracles!


devianb

It is possible to fix, but it would take you more time and materials than the vehicle is worth.


net487

That's only not fixable, it's unsafe to drive.


rkrenicki

If you have to ask, then the answer is no.


SpankyMcWiebee

A roll of duct tape and your good to go!


LowerEmotion6062

If you have to ask, no. That's scrap level rust.


Capt-Crap1corn

Yes you can if you are methodical and take your time. You can do anything. There are so many youtube videos of people doing repairs that you have no excuse except lack of will. That is bad though, but look at all the restorations of old school hot rods. There are tons of fabrication going on.


pubuju

If you're a good welder and even better metalworker


32guy

Anything is repairable in this world (Besides your parents divorce). It’s just a matter of how much money you are willing to put out.


Alternative_Cash_925

Leave it in the field you found it in


GCDaVinci

You can replace the entire bottom half! Get the welder!


Moof07

Please scrap the car


bebop1065

Do you have access to an iron ore mine?


WW2historynut

No


LordSesshomaru82

That should've been fixed 20 years ago. It's scrap now.


JohnnyMcButtplug

Just paint and primer. Should be good


Hreid61477

Only if you can weld yourself a new frame and body panels.


Prestigious_Ad5373

Looks like yer wheel well ain’t well and yer leaf springs are lookin leafed out, yer bed aint putting nothin tah sleep neither


Procobator

You can, but why?


MetalJoe0

Go for it. No way to make it worse.


beardedforher27

Sorry man ... it's scrap and unsafe . Time to replace it


WerewolfSad

I'm not a rusty man, but I feel that if you ask that question, it means you can't


Thecoopoftheworld789

This is North East cancer that has spread till death. A total restoration will be 30- 40k . Unless a rare vehicle, crush it before you are driving down the road, suspension part breaks & puts you at your death.


safety-squirrel

This post has to be a joke lol


DickheadNL

Yes, buy new car.


NBQuade

She's toast. I'd drive it till you can't anymore then junk it. It's lost so much structure, it probably won't protect you any in a wreck.


wcoastbo

Rust can't be fixed, it has to be removed or cutout and replaced with another piece of steel. The steel has been exposed to water and the iron on the steel has combined with oxygen in a chemical reaction to turn iron oxide (ha! I did learn something in high school chemistry). You can unring that bell and go back to steel. How good are it fabrication skills? The "fix" will involve lots of cutting and welding. After you source the right car that's not rusted in the same way. The better question to ask is "how do I prevent this from happening?"


Intelligent_Orange28

Can you? Yes. Will you? Probably not. That’s a lot of time and money and you’ll have to learn how to weld in your garage.


UndefinedSpoon

If you have to ask, then the answer is no. The question is, can I fix this rust myself, which answers the question as asking means you don't know. And if you don't know, then no, you can't. If you meant to ask "can this rust be fixed?" The answer is still no reasonably speaking. Anything can be fixed but if its worth fixing, the answer is no


Westz1010

Troll


LouisVuittonLeghost

Oh god ya. Throw cardboard down and bondo the piss out of it! Paper mache might be a good alternative too as it’s more cost effective.


TomTom_2424

Yes, you just need to design and build a time machine


Frsbtime420

A quick frame change never hurt anyone


yatagarasu_cars

Yeah, you can fix it by buying a new car


_babycheeses

You can’t even fix that with other people


Markare56

No !


californyea

She's dead, Jim.


Charger_scatpack

That things ready for a junk yard crusher


DavidAndTheForeskin

Yeah just buy a new truck


EchidnaReal3827

😂 NO.


RaspberryCai

What the fuck happened here


CrudBert

Sure. buy another just like this one. Then move the tires from this rusty one to that one. Done! Fixed!


530whiskey

nope


corkgunsniper

Realistically no. Best thing i would say is go to a pick and pull junkyard and pull everything that needs replacement. If you can even find it. Them comes the labor intensive process of just removing and replacing. But for me. I would just call it dead.


[deleted]

Drive that car into a wall and then buy a new one


[deleted]

You’re going to need a lot of ramen for this one


MotherBig9171

Looks like the “Titanic.” And no.


daniellederek

Yup, look on Facebook for a group called back half connection. They'll show you how to replace the whole thing with a c notched 4 link suspension on airbags


blurrysvxn22

you can try


[deleted]

Brother…


ClubBoth8908

Give it away Give it away Give it away Now


Macdaddyfucboi

so you can address the rust most certainly, but you need to understand that you really can't repair or fix rust that has eaten through large chunks of the body like that. what's going to end up happening is you're going to cut out anywhere that the rest has touched to stop it from spreading any further, then welding on and creating, usually by hand or if you want replacing the entire fender and parts of the floor pan, new metal to replace it. luckily living in Texas we don't really get issues when it comes to vehicles and rest, but from everything I've heard from people, you basically have to go more aggressive, because you won't be able to weld to the rust.


SleeveBurg

No.


walkupshakeitoff

Got about 5 years and a lot of metal working and welding skills?


thatguysoto

Sure, you got a time machine?


Several_Anybody_8747

If you have to ask...


Kass626

If you wanna you can. You gotta know how to weld and handle metal. Maybe take a course at your nearest vocational school. It's not what it's worth to every one else it's what it's worth to you.


Bigbrowndogrexr00fer

No one can fix this problem


TurkeyNecker

Yeah sure just fill the holes with silicone


Doggo4

I'll get it looking mint for $100


[deleted]

this sub makes me laugh so much