OK, on to pics of the driver's side.
Starting in the rear.
This is what it looked like from inside the wheel well looking back:
Same thing different view:
I did not realize the car was this bad before I started.
Thought it was mostly going to be rocker panel repair.
Oh well, can't turn back now.
Start with a piece inside the rear of the wheel well:
While I bend stainless for the area behind it:
More plate added to the inside rear of the wheel well:
Got everything inside this welded up and here is the skin.
I'm not going for perfection.
Stainless inside skin for upper edge of the rear of the driver's side wheel well:
Eventually the whole edge of that wheel well got repaired but I think it was the last thing I did.
After it was back on the ground and running around.
On to the front of the driver's side wheel well.
Even though much of this is already stainless, there is a lot of metal that needs replaced/upgraded.
Looks like some weak metal above it and off to the low right of it.
You don't really know what you have until you start digging.
Took it back to good metal.
Here's what got removed above the stainless:
Here's the patch for it.
With some holes for spraying corrosion inhibitor in.
I sometimes forgot to put these access holes in the covers and had to drill them later.
So they aren't in the pictures for the rocker nose or the rear half of this wheel well.
Working my way up the rocker panels, starting at the rear:
dsiderearrockcutout by
vwfatmobile, on Flickr
There was some stainless rocker already so I jumped forward about 1 1/2 feet.
Some more rocker in front of that to tear out and replace:
Looks like I didn't put stainless on the inside area of the rocker,.. where the seat rail connects to.
So I cut out the bad rocker, removed the seat piece and replaced the rotted-out inner rocker with stainless.
Now all of that is stainless on both sides. When I'm done both inner and outer rocker skins are stainless.
View from the inside:
Outside covered:
dsiderockinplace by
vwfatmobile, on Flickr
Isn't that lovely? Shiney. Shame to have to paint it.
Probably enough for now. Next comes the front driver's side rocker and what is hiding behind the fender
I also took video of the process. Maybe I'll get that chopped and posted sometime.