What I Did To My Saab Today.

[sgould]

I finished treating the rust on the wheel arch, and painted it.  I tried the Saab touch-up as it's a smallish area but the colour match was poor.  So I tried with some spray paint I bought from "Paints4u" to spray the roof spoiler... in 2016!!  It still worked and the colour match was very good.  

[edit] Picture of finished paint to show colour match. Surface should have had more rubbing down, but I had to get it done and touch dry before the rain came.  I really need a new wheel arch trim 



While on the subject of "paint", I was close up to the rear wheel and saw evidence of why I don't like most powder coating. If a proper primer is not used under the powder, it chips off.  When I was working, we powder coated a lot of iron fittings and used many others.  The proper primed ones were fine, but the unprimed stuff we used, rarely survived manhandling on site without damage.

Perhaps wheels should be properly painted rather than powder coated?

[Steve McF]

Hi Will, is that the 9-3 front of LHS rear wheelarch at the emd of the sill. Mine is going there too from what I remember 

[sgould]

No.  It's the front of the LH side rear wheel arch.  It's the common "dogleg" area.  I was afraid that it was rotting from the back, which would probably mean a welding job, but it turned out to be surface rust that had crept up from the bottom.  So just a scrape, treat with Hydrate 80, fill sand and paint.  

I'm keeping an eye on the 9-3, but I gave it a spray behind the wheel arches a couple of years ago and I give it a top-up if I have the spray out.  I use the Bilt Hamber Dynax UB and the Dynax S50.

https://bilthamber.com

Also worth a look, even though it's quite old... https://www.cleanstore.co.uk/pdf/Bilt%20Hamber%20Dynax-S50%20-%20Independent%20Testing%20vs%20Other%20Cavity%20Waxes.pdf

A lot of people use Lanogard, but I've heard that it's quite runny, so easily applied, but needs to be regularly "refreshed".