Cost to weld a patch?

Cyber-Mav

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got a hold on the back side of the sill passenger side towards the rear wheel.
been quoted £100 for a patch to be welded on which seems expensive to me. what do you guys think:

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am i being fleeced at £100?

should i just use aluminium mesh and filler?

car is a mk3 ford fiesta.
 
I’d be well happy at circa £100,just remember to add a little for rust prevention treatment after it’s done.
 
reason i ask is because iv had patches on sills welded in the past for 30 quid or so. granted this was 10 years ago. the guy quoting the £100 to patch it this time round was the guy who welded 2 new sills on the car around 7 years ago.
alternatively hes saying he can weld the patch and also sand down the underside and stonechip the backs of the sills for total £200.
now there is no rust under the middle of the car front to back, its just rusty on the sides behind the sills.
iv not shopped around anywhere, and mot was passed in july, i found this hole doing my winter checks under the car with the ballpeen hammer (like to catch stuff before it gets worse), so not in a real rush to get it sorted but i do want to sort it.

now i do a lot of work on the car myself, only have a driveway but dont have air compressor and welding gear. alternatively i dont mind starting to weld myself but dunno if a cheapo welder will do the job. dont want a gas one but electric one could work out if its gonna be cheapo? have seen clarke ones from machine mart for 145quid for a 90amp MIG one, but when i asked the welder if 90 amps is enough he said i need more 130amp minimum? those get expensive..
 
Get some other quotes. Easiest way of seeing if a price is reasonable, surely. But in my experience £100 sounds like a very fair price for that!
 
Scania said:
I’d be well happy at circa £100,just remember to add a little for rust prevention treatment after it’s done.
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yes this time iv bought a lot of cavity wax and have a good stash of rust converter, zinc primer/paints hammerite paint and stonechip aerosol. also have seam sealer and brush-able waxoyl but been told waxoyl will make the driveway dirty so dont think i will go with that.

here is some underbody work iv done on my other car on the driveway:
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and after:
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Cyber-Mav said:
got a hold on the back side of the sill passenger side towards the rear wheel.
been quoted £100 for a patch to be welded on which seems expensive to me. what do you guys think:

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am i being fleeced at £100?

should i just use aluminium mesh and filler?

car is a mk3 ford fiesta.
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That is not a "Patch".

That is serious corrosion that will require far more than a bit of angle grinder and a 5 minute bit of migging to get it right.

£100 is way too cheap really. A sound repair would require removal of that suspension arm and its mounting plate, just to see what needs doing.

And then it would get serious.

You are, after all, right next to the fuel tank as well!

Car looks ****** really.
 
That's not really a patch. For a start it's on the inside edge of the sill, the most awkward part to get to.
Secondly, look at the corrosion in the area - there isn't a lot to weld to. £100 is very cheap.
 
I would also say £100 is too cheap, considering most of that seems to be rotten metal and mud by the looks of it! trying to get some sound metal to weld to may well turn into a very difficult job for him.
 
£100 is cheap for that as when you take into consideration when grinding that back to clean metal to weld it will become about 3/4 times bigger
 
Do garages ever have an endoscope to push through sills and inpect them more thoroughly .. you've got to be concerned by structual integrity elsewhere
 
It's a mk3 Fiesta, none of them have structural integrity, when I looked at some as a cheap first car 12 years ago they were all completely rotten.
 
As others have suggested it's a fairly involved repair to do properly - at £100 he's either doing you a massive favour or he isn't going to do the job properly - it'll be down to your judgement of your relationship with him as to which it is.
 
yea he has looked after the car in the past and was the one who welded the replacement sills on. i will get him to weld the hole and i will sort out the rest of the underbody myself.
 
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