How do i repair this rust?

My mk1 appears to be really sound with very little rust at all.

However the area that will need attention soon is around the jacking point on the front of the o/s sill.

The outer sill section is rust free and good but there is an area further under that needs work.

Its hard to describe but here goes.

Where the lip is in the bottom of the sill where the stock jack would go, just behind that. I think the car has beed jacked by a fool and damaged the metal, thus rusting.

The area is only small, maybe three inches long by about 5mm. Hows best to repiar this? Can you get a repair section for this area? if so best place to get one from?

Thanks in advance for any advice and help

Ash

If I'm right in thinking what part your on about, isn't this just a flat peice of metal?

I'd personally cut the rust out (probably all the way down including the lip) then make a plate up and weld it in  :y: should be reletively easy

Cheers, so there is not a repair section for this no?

I'm not entirely sure, Hadrian might do a repair section (I usually pop into my local friendly MOT station who has a look for me)

I've checked they're website (I'm very bad at searching though) here

not sure but think it might be part of the floorpan?  :dontknow:

The area you are talking sounds like it involves where the floor pan meets the inner and outer sill. These bits are available as separate panels, but it's not really worth buying all these panels just to cut a little bit out of each one, best of making up your own repair patch. Be good if you can you post a picture?

Cheers

I have the EXACT same problem.  I decided to go all out and as the sill had some rot all the way up I cut the whole outer sill off.  I'm also going to get the the car on a rotisserie and cut some of the floor out and put a strip in to replace the thin rail you're talking about.  I'll be doing a couple of spots on the passengers side and almost all of the drivers side.
Will be posting pics of the rotisserie build and the sill rebuilds as well as soon as I get a chance to get some work done.
Baz

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this may help

I have the same problem but it's my NSF jacking point. The verticla seam section where outer sill meets floor pan is squashed flat and rusting. The last garage without realising placed the ramp arms on the sill and have now put a flat spot in the curve of the outer sill.  
I now need to source a body specialist who can repair it with minimal cutting and welding.

Exactly the same for me too... Drivers side front jacking point rusted through and sill bent at jacking point too... Bit of a weak spot?

Think it's a weak spot as the paint/underseal gets taken off with years of being jacked up and down leaving the metal exposed to the elements. Eventually the area is weakend enough by rust that it collapses when the car is jacked up.

Here's was my OSF sill as I just starting cutting it


and repaired


Click here to see how it was done.

Cheers