[T3] Chassis restoration: a horror story

[Soren Jacobsen]

> On Nov 1, 2018, at 8:38 AM, Mara Johnson <drmarajjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What a triumph of perseverance!  I read it all because my battery is about
> to fall out.  Although it's a smaller section I have no experience doing
> this yet so it will be a saga.  I appreciated your tale for heads up on
> issues encountered.  One question.  Knowing what you do, do you have a
> recommendation for where to get replacement pans?

How bad are your pans?  If the front section is solid, I'd just buy rears from ISP West: https://www.vwispwest.com/311705058RQ.html?p=YzE9MTg5

Or if the rot is even more concentrated, they sell just the battery tray: https://www.vwispwest.com/311705058B.html?p=YzE9MTg5

If you're not sure how bad your floors are overall, a few hours spent removing sound deadening material and taking a wire wheel to the floors will show you what you're truly dealing with.  Some floors that look good enough from underneath end up being full of pinholes :\

If your floors are rotten up front, I'd look for good original metal.  You'd probably still end up needing to patch the battery tray, but in my mind that's preferable to dealing with the Klassic Fab reproduction pans.

Soren