Hey fella, sending some encouragement your way. It'll be great to see the Metro saved and on the road. I started a big job restoring and converting my Citroen 2cv back in 2012 ish (videos on my channel) and feel the pain of trying to overcome one setback after another - especially rust! I must get back into that project soon and make progress. I got burnt out and had a break, but the sod is that a million and one things have happened since and its so hard to find the free time and head space!
@@houseofmods Cheers mate. The quality of my videos is appalling though, and windows movie maker is all i can get my head round, so be ready to do much skipping!
After youve now shown us how bad some of this is underneath, it seems pretty demoralizing. To tell you to carry on would be something i wouldnt want to do myself. Carry on and learn new skills but we'll see you go grey, or jack it in and have some more laughs with the metro. Its all good watching!
@@houseofmods I messaged on the last video, Its pretty much how all of them go. get the carpets up and the seats out and have a stab round the inner sill on both sides, you will find loads of holes. if you get some 25mm x50mm box section and brace between the jacking points you have something to join the edge of the floor and the inner sill to. then fabricate the outer sill from flat sheet and plug weld the outer to the edge of the 25mm side of the box section. From inside you need chip off the sound deadening on the floor above the front jacking points, you will find both sides are propper crispy right up to the spot welds on the floor, these are the welds that joint the subframe mounts to the floor. Carefully remove the old steel from the top of the jacking points from inside and then cut a rectangle out right up to the seat base and up to the plug welds. Do the same both sides. If you need anymore info please feel free to contact me through facebook, depending where you are in the world I can meet up. I used to turn around metros in the week ready for mot and in a lot of cases worse than what you have, I can dig out some pics of repairs that myself and my old apprentice did years ago. In terms of material and consumable costs it would usually take around £100. 1 day strip down, 3 days repair and 1 day rebuild. Once to get used to the fact you will be removing a lot more material than you first anticipated you will begin to make progress, if you try and patch it up it will have you in tears. dont loose faith in it, you will feel proud once its done, not many people can drag a rusty metro back to life once you have the process nailed down you will have access to loads of cheap cars that you can sort usually within the week. I hope this has helped spur you on. We need more people to save these cars, they have been so under rated for years. I am thinking of doing a metro as a track car after christmas, partially your to blame hahah, the next one will be metro no8 and I have repaired loads more in the past, you get used to rust lol.
@@MultiBruce3 thank you again dude! Appreciate all the help i can get! Will carry on with the rebuild in the hope i can get it finished asap!! Thanks again dude
Great vid ! Welding looks good mate !
Thank you joe!
Looks pretty solid to me fella 👍
Hey fella, sending some encouragement your way. It'll be great to see the Metro saved and on the road. I started a big job restoring and converting my Citroen 2cv back in 2012 ish (videos on my channel) and feel the pain of trying to overcome one setback after another - especially rust! I must get back into that project soon and make progress. I got burnt out and had a break, but the sod is that a million and one things have happened since and its so hard to find the free time and head space!
Thank you buddy really appreciate the comment! Hope you find time to do yours again! Will check your videos out! Much love 👊🏻
@@houseofmods Cheers mate. The quality of my videos is appalling though, and windows movie maker is all i can get my head round, so be ready to do much skipping!
@@christhesnaildriver haha they cant be any worse than mine! 😁😂
After youve now shown us how bad some of this is underneath, it seems pretty demoralizing. To tell you to carry on would be something i wouldnt want to do myself. Carry on and learn new skills but we'll see you go grey, or jack it in and have some more laughs with the metro. Its all good watching!
Thank you dude! Really appreciate comments like this! Just the motivation i need to carry on. Respect 👊🏻
@@houseofmods I messaged on the last video, Its pretty much how all of them go. get the carpets up and the seats out and have a stab round the inner sill on both sides, you will find loads of holes. if you get some 25mm x50mm box section and brace between the jacking points you have something to join the edge of the floor and the inner sill to. then fabricate the outer sill from flat sheet and plug weld the outer to the edge of the 25mm side of the box section. From inside you need chip off the sound deadening on the floor above the front jacking points, you will find both sides are propper crispy right up to the spot welds on the floor, these are the welds that joint the subframe mounts to the floor. Carefully remove the old steel from the top of the jacking points from inside and then cut a rectangle out right up to the seat base and up to the plug welds. Do the same both sides. If you need anymore info please feel free to contact me through facebook, depending where you are in the world I can meet up. I used to turn around metros in the week ready for mot and in a lot of cases worse than what you have, I can dig out some pics of repairs that myself and my old apprentice did years ago. In terms of material and consumable costs it would usually take around £100. 1 day strip down, 3 days repair and 1 day rebuild. Once to get used to the fact you will be removing a lot more material than you first anticipated you will begin to make progress, if you try and patch it up it will have you in tears. dont loose faith in it, you will feel proud once its done, not many people can drag a rusty metro back to life once you have the process nailed down you will have access to loads of cheap cars that you can sort usually within the week. I hope this has helped spur you on. We need more people to save these cars, they have been so under rated for years. I am thinking of doing a metro as a track car after christmas, partially your to blame hahah, the next one will be metro no8 and I have repaired loads more in the past, you get used to rust lol.
@@MultiBruce3 thank you again dude! Appreciate all the help i can get! Will carry on with the rebuild in the hope i can get it finished asap!! Thanks again dude
Dm me if you want to buy a another one for the missus!
what have you got to offer me?
@@houseofmods I have a 1995 Rover 100 Kensington in a green/blue. 61k on the clock
That's nothing
My 82 Austin now that was rusted.
Its worse than it looks believe me 😂
Where did you get these brand new panels?
I got these on ebay buddy!