Should I be worried?

"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker) 01/31/2016 at 10:42 • Filed to: Project Car Hell

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Today I have decided to finally start working on my old VW children’s 6v ride on car again. The metal body for it was stamped in Taiwan in either the late 70's or early 80's so it does not have the greatest body lines. To fix this little problem I thought “Hey, I’ve seen sub boxes made with bonds over expanding foam. It’s a toy so nothing to worry about.” So I decide to google the best method, then I see this:

People that have decided to use expanding foam as backing for bondo on holes in their cars. There’s several pages like this. There is something deep inside of me that screams “, Don’t do this!!!” I don't know if this is better or worse than those old stories of people stuffing cloth behind panels to do this. I would hazard to say worse since expanding foam is a mess to remove.

Berang > Frenchlicker 01/31/2016 at 10:59

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Volkswagen used to fill beetles with foam:

Birddog > Frenchlicker 01/31/2016 at 11:11

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It’s certainly nothing new. I remember a neighbor that was doing that back in the 90s.

Frenchlicker > Berang 01/31/2016 at 12:12

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Well that’s awfully convenient.

Frenchlicker > Birddog 01/31/2016 at 12:13

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I believe it but it seems way too prevalent.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Frenchlicker 01/31/2016 at 13:24

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Having worked in a body shop in the midwest years ago I can tell you this is surprisingly common (we were fixing them, not using the foam ourselves). But it never lasts long.

Frenchlicker > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 01/31/2016 at 14:26

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I have to say I'm not really surprised. What I'm surprised by is that vehicles people would do this to eventually ended up in a body shop.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Frenchlicker 01/31/2016 at 14:55

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It usually went something like this... Car has rust “repaired” with foam. Car gets in accident. Car goes to body shop. Or new owner brings car to body shop after previous “repair” starts looking like crap.