The Floorpan and Rocker Situation
So, you may remember that I had the floorpans and rockers done. Well, I’m going to have to have them redone. Are they in? Absolutely. Are they “daily driver quality or at the very least installed correctly so the rust will not come back”?. Unfortunately no. I didn’t think – nor did I WANT – a show quality level job done. I just wanted it to be presentable, functional and NOT have bits welded over rusty bits. But no such luck.
I’ve been stewing about this for a while because I really liked the guy – he was a really nice guy. And he said up front “this will be daily driver level quality”. And that would have been fine. But come on – I mean take these things into consideration:
- The doors scrape the rockers. Granted the doors are not in fantastic shape – but they didn’t hit the OLD rockers. The replacements should be no different.
- There is body filler just slapped over rust. I know this because I have eyeballs and when you scrape off body filler you find old paint and rust underneath.
- Welding new panels over old rusted ones. I mean, I didn’t expect him to sand blast it. But I did expect him to hit it with a DA sander or something. Where the panels overlap you can look up inside and see the old rusty panel.
- The floor pans are high enough to prohibit the gas pedal from going down more than about a 1/4″. I fixed this by bending the pedal arm, but what a kludge.
- None of the trim fits now. I would have to cut about an inch off the bottom of the trim to make it fit. No thanks.
Anyway. I wasn’t expecting him to stitch butt-weld it or anything. Just to flange it and spot weld it so stuff lines up right.
I’m now on the prowl for someone to fix it.
