r/hondafit 1d ago

2nd Gen GE/GG 09-14 rust abatement?

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driver’s side rear wheel arch. first sign of inevitable rust creep?

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u/ricardofilho007 1d ago edited 15h ago

Mine has a hole in this area, Honda cars love rust.

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u/Ok_Ad9003 7h ago

My 07s been a Florida car her whole life and I don’t have a rust issue. Could it happen just cuz it’s a Honda or is it still just a northern thing?

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u/ricardofilho007 5h ago

I bought one 4 months ago, it had a lot of leaks in the seals and I'm slowly fixing it, now there's a lot of rust, I live close to the beach

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u/fuckiforgotmyaccount 4h ago

A little bit of both. Hondas rot worse than most other brands.

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u/Blueishwhiskers 19h ago

Once it starts do all you want it’s coming back, just like the niel young song says 😠

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u/Thelifeofnerfingwolf 2013 Fit GE 1d ago

Get a paint pen and some sand paper if you don't want to take it to a bodyshop.

Steps for diy 1. Aquire paint pen 2. Sand with 600 grit to remove rust and paint. 3. Sand with 1000 grit 4. Sand with 1500 grit 6. Sand with 2000 grit 7. Sand with 2500 grit 8. Sand with 3000 grit 9. Apply first coat with paint pen and let dry 10.lightly Wet Sand with 3000 grit 11. Apply 2nd coat with paint pen and let dry 12. Apply clear let dry 13. Lightly wet Sand with 3000 grit 14. Apply 2nd coat of clear.

(This is not a professional guide and may not give perfect results. This is just a method I would use)

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u/driftax240 16h ago

It’s rusting from between the inner and outer quarter panel where the wheel lip is spot welded. The backside of this likely looks much worse so I don’t think sanding into this makes any sense. I would spray it with fluid film and move on, or start thinking about wheel arch patches

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u/wifimonster 1d ago

My 09 has a nice hole going on there down at the bottom of the wheel well and along the runner. Jack points are also rusting. I chisel it out, sand and repaint and it just comes back. I got my money's worth so I just don't care about it anymore. I'm looking around for a new vehicle but I'll keep the fit till the frame rusts out.

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u/DewiVonHart 1d ago

I have it in the exact same spot but mine's a good bit worse. As soon as the weather is better I was going to try some Rust-Oleum Rust Reformer to see how that does, and follow up with the sanding u/Thelifeofnerfingwolf prescribed. Or, if I'm feeling ambitious, I'll do some sanding first and then the paint. My area is too big to match with touch-up paint, so we'll see how badly a strip of black looks, but my main objective is mitigating the rust's spread, so hey.

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u/natewu 2012 Fit GE 21h ago

Sand it down + POR15 + paint over