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Rear wheel arches

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Hello,

Amongst the myriad of rust repairs that my MR2 is going to need there is a big piece needs cutting out of the passenger side rear wheel arch.

Is it possible to get MR2 Mk2 repair panels or is there another vehicle that has a close enough profile to be able to use the repair panels from that?

-Andy.


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Re: Rear wheel arches

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I don't remember seeing anything about anyone doing arch repair panels for the MK2, but I'm not certain, there's a couple of eBay sellers doing sill repair panels, might be worth contacting them.
Also this company https://sites.google.com/site/classicautopanelcraft/
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Hi I had to do this on my rev 1 v6 turbo along with both outer sills and the passenger inner sill. You can get the outer sills from MR2 ben for £65 each. But the rear arch panels will have to be fabricated. I just cut out all the rot and kept what was left in one piece then made them in plates took a while but was worth it. Even if ot can’t be seen 😂
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Got this to do, thanks for pics. Nice work.

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Good work 👏

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I've done these, I basically just copied the shape with 1mm sheet & pieced together, put the groves back in by putting a chisel underneath and hammering along each side.
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Re: Rear wheel arches

Post by Wilkie Senior »

As Jim says some are cutting repair panels out of breakers, i was lucky enough to find some for my rebuild after a bodge by a "Award Winning" body shop !!!


Steph does do some cuts at MR MR2 I think hes looking to be packing in (I may be wrong) try him, but as they all suffer rot in the same place you need to travel, do the mate buddy puppy dog eyes etc

Good luck

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