The door sills of the Landy are badly rusted. Here's is our brief process to treat the rust and paint.
We purchased some wire brushes and abrasive sanding disks. A couple of hours grinding down the rust leaves you with a good surface to clean with solvent. Let this dry then apply metal ready products. We gave the surfaces a liberal coating of the amazing POR15 product. Then some primer on top and finally green paint. We have been struggling to find the right paint colour. Our landy's paint codes don't match the colour so we are not sure what to do next. As the rust treated area will mostly be covered by rubber sills we have decided to live with the dark green paint I bought. Its not close to our colour but we needed to get moving with the treatment so on goes the dark green.
A week after performing this treatment we noticed some of the green didn't bond well in certain areas. This was because we didn't allow the primer to completely dry. Good lesson - don't rush the job. It only cost you time later to do the job properly.
We purchased some wire brushes and abrasive sanding disks. A couple of hours grinding down the rust leaves you with a good surface to clean with solvent. Let this dry then apply metal ready products. We gave the surfaces a liberal coating of the amazing POR15 product. Then some primer on top and finally green paint. We have been struggling to find the right paint colour. Our landy's paint codes don't match the colour so we are not sure what to do next. As the rust treated area will mostly be covered by rubber sills we have decided to live with the dark green paint I bought. Its not close to our colour but we needed to get moving with the treatment so on goes the dark green.
A week after performing this treatment we noticed some of the green didn't bond well in certain areas. This was because we didn't allow the primer to completely dry. Good lesson - don't rush the job. It only cost you time later to do the job properly.
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