"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
01/15/2018 at 12:10 • Filed to: The Alfa Doesn't Have A Tag Yet
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"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
01/15/2018 at 12:10 • Filed to: The Alfa Doesn't Have A Tag Yet | 8
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Didn’t really take any pictures at the event, so here is Dog B.
The Alfa’s fate has been a little up in the air since the major, respected restoration shop in town decided the car !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Luckily at the Alfa Romeo Owner’s Club annual planning meeting, I got two bits of good news.
The first bit of good news came when I shared my story: I am not the first or only Alfa person this guy has done this to. Apparently he his rather known for being a dick about stuff like that. I know that doesn’t sound like good news, but it makes me feel 100x better. To be honest the whole affair had put me in a bit of an existential crisis about “Akio’s Home for Wayward Cars,” but now I feel better about my choices.
The second bit of good news is the club members are going to assist with the repairs. Rocker rust is a common enough problem with Alfa’s that they want to do a tech session dissecting and (hopefully) reassembling my car.
I actually resisted this at first, as I’m not the type person that likes charity (or whatever you want to call it). Ultimately I was convinced after seeing the president’s old spider (on which he had done the same repair), a cross-section of the rockers that he had around for demonstration (amazingly complex!), and the thought that I can use the money saved to shower people in wine/ beer/ food while we do the work.
So much wine.
Svend
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01/15/2018 at 12:35 |
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When you say ‘rocker rust’, is that inside or outside?
Because there are some amazing rust treatments, restorers and prev-enters available from Bilt Hamber.
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> Svend
01/15/2018 at 12:41 |
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Yes. All of that. Probably intermediate too.
I learned a lot this weekend, but the tl;dr is it looks like whatever bent my floorpan probably caused it to pull away from the inner rocker, which gave that first spot for rust to set in. I also have bubbles on the outside, so I also have outer rust. There is also an intermediate rocker that can and likely has rusted.
First tech session is actually just going to be exploratory surgery. Trying to figure out how bad it is and how to fix it.
The rockers on these are shockingly complex, but the good news is there is a lot of good metal in them that takes a long time to rust away, so I am not as bad off as I’d thought.
punkgoose17
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
01/15/2018 at 12:50 |
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That is great news. I hope the exploratory surgery goes well.
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Svend
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
01/15/2018 at 14:07 |
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The Bilt Hamber Anti Corrosion range.
Is a range of rust remover either in situ (DEOX-GEL) or parts bath (DEOX-C), then various other treatments from spray on wax treatments to brush on treatments and even a new water applied version called ATOM-MAC.
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
01/15/2018 at 16:01 |
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You probably don’t want your car to be restored by someone who doesn’t actually want to do the work anyways.
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> AMGtech - now with more recalls!
01/15/2018 at 16:08 |
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For sure that, yes. Once he decided he didn’t want to do it I didn’t spend a lot of time trying to get him to reverse the decision. We spent about 15 min on the phone and that was the end of it.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
01/16/2018 at 09:46 |
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Great news!
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
01/20/2018 at 18:02 |
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Dog B is clearly a neglected pooch living a life of abject misery and woe. Probably not well fed, either.