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Rust on wheel arches

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Hi, my 2005 997, has developed various stages of rust on all wheel arches. Work was carried our previously via a Porsche Independent Garage in Edinburgh, but all wheel arches the rust has came back through the paintwork. Garage now saying that all wheel arches need replaced.

Has anyone had this issue with their 997 and is replacement body panels the only long term solution?

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This is literally the first ever time I've heard of a 997 suffering like this.
If it was maybe one or two, I'd suspect badly repaired crash damage, but on all four corners?!
There's something not right there - no offence to the garage that did the work, but I'd get a second opinion.
 
Thanks, car has done 155k miles and we live 100 yards from the sea so possible reasons for it to be so bad. Had the car for 14 years of its 15 years. Both rear are worse than front. Garage initially carried out a repair after first failure the refused when rust re-appeared after 12 months from initial works
 
Wow!
Sea air will definitely speed the corrosion process. Do you have some photos you could share?
My back ground is car body bodywork repairs. Happy to offer any advise.

Thanks,
K.
 
Whoa. If rust reappears a year after the initial repair, then far as I'm concerned, they did a very shoddy job and need taking to task.

I'm still confused how it got so bad to start with, seeing as all Porsches are fully galvanised during construction to prevent corrosion.
 
I agree with STiG911 and that the sea air is a potential problem but I have to say that from experience unless we are talking about rusted through pin holes or just rot then I suspect that the garage has not properly treated the rust with something like Jenolite. Also they may not have cleaned and derusted the inside faces of the arch lips. This is important to arrest the process.
Replacing steel is drastic, Its age not miles that count unless its just not been kept properly for years in its previous ownership.
 
That's the badly corroded for the year. It will be difficult to fix long term but not impossible. It requires seriously cleaning back to bright metal inside and outside which I guess was not done. The areas rusting are the dirt traps on these cars and are so often ignored by owners when cleaning the shiny outside.
It is difficult to form an opinion until that stage is reached but it may need lead filling. This is usually beyond the skills of ordinary paint shops. You need to find a car restorer/bodyshop who will almost certainly know how to do this process. It is possible that a glass fibre matt repair inside and outside could work. You need to carefully beat the area lower to allow a layer of matt to be in place before the filler. Filler alone is a waste of time.
Whatever you do it needs to be done soon as its fizzing away nicely under the paint.
 
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