Rockers, floor pans, cab corners, bed sides and wheel arches. Rot cut out, panels fabricated to the original contour, welded, dressed and treated.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
Most rust repair quotes people receive are not really quotes. They are a polite way of declining the job. A collision centre prices rust work at panel replacement rates with paint booth time attached, the number comes back higher than the vehicle is worth, and the owner concludes the car is finished. It usually is not. It is just not economic the way that shop does it.
Rust repair done as metalwork is a different job. The rot comes out, a panel gets shaped from flat steel to match the contour that was there, it gets welded in and dressed back, and the vehicle keeps going for years. There is no paint booth and no parts order, which is most of where the cost went.
Rockers and cab corners, because they sit in the spray path off the front wheels and drain badly by design.
Floor pans, particularly under the driver footwell where a leaking windscreen or door seal has been quietly wetting the carpet for years.
Wheel arches and quarter panel lips, which trap salt behind the lip where nothing washes it out.
Bed sides and bed floors on trucks, where anything carried wet has been sitting in the seams.
Shock towers and body mounts, which are structural and get their own treatment on the frame repair page.
The rot gets cut out along a line in sound metal, not along the edge of the visible hole. Rust travels under paint, so the cut is always wider than what you can see.
The replacement is shaped from flat steel to the original profile. On a curved section like a wheel arch or a rocker that means forming the metal rather than bending a flat plate and calling it done, which is the difference between a repair that disappears under paint and one you can find with your eyes closed.
It gets welded in with stitched welds to control heat, so the panel does not warp and pull the surrounding metal out of shape.
Welds are dressed flush, then the panel is treated inside and out. On a closed section the cavity gets coated before it is sealed up.
We do metal, not paint. The vehicle leaves dressed, treated and ready for your painter. Being straight about that up front saves everyone a wasted afternoon.
Often yes, when the rust is in panels rather than structure. A rocker or a floor pan is metalwork. A frame that has gone soft along its length is a different conversation. Send photos and you get an honest answer, including the answer that it is not worth it.
No. We take it through to dressed, treated and ready for paint, and you take it to your painter. This shop is a metal shop.
A repair on a daily driver is priced differently to a show car repair, because the standard is different. On a daily it needs to be strong, sealed and straight. On a restoration it also needs to be invisible under paint, and that takes considerably longer.
Not in the repaired section if it was cut back to sound metal and coated properly. It can come back elsewhere on the same vehicle, because the conditions that caused it have not changed. Any honest shop tells you that rather than implying a patch immunises the whole car.
More than you can see, always. Rust spreads under paint, so cutting to the edge of the hole leaves compromised metal at the weld line and the repair fails there first.
Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open. Free, no obligation, and if it cannot be repaired you will hear that straight.
