How to repaint a car, bodywork rust repair, how to fix rusty wheel arches.Car painting for beginners 

Wow, surprised at the amount of water coming out from inside the panels! I am restoring an older LT 35 mk1 and now I think its actually a pretty good design :D although was totally rusted too

thanks mate, the plastic bag trick is great haha

Чувак,Ты просто красавчеГ! 😎Ты по-настоящему вдохновил меня на такую же работу(но не настолько объёмную как у Тебя) по своему Вито.Меня конечно удивляет как Мерсы ржавеют,но тут понятно ,климат Туманного Альбиона🌦 им не на пользу. Никогда не красил,но работаю именно в сфере ТО комерческих авто👨🏼‍🔧. Так что рискну,действительно вдохновил 👏

Haha, I got the same brush, leftovers from my ex 🤣 And I use it to clean car parts etc👌

I wish you well with your project especially with a merc

Love the accent! My guess is Scottish/Russian? Apologies if I'm wrong. Anyway I have a 13plate Crafter that is starting to go. It's ex rental so came with 100k miles worth of dinks and knocks. I've posted this on other vids but I have drowned where the stainless side door track meets the body in a water displacer (WD40 or something like) as this is another rot point. There are vids about cleaning the s**t traps out behind the front wheel arches and, as you have shown, clearing the rear drain holes. I've just finished sealing the trim clips to stop the ingress of roadwater, spray and muck (see plenty of vids on how to). As I posted elsewhere, I couldn't understand how so much water was coming into the van BUT I had a lightbulb moment 💡. As you drive there is a pressure difference between inside and outside. Obviously if the pressure is less in the van the mucky, salty roadspray will be sucked in, even uphill with the help of capillary action. We know that Germany can produce some of the finest engineering and designs in the world. So I disagree about poor design. It's not actually poor design it's built in obsolesence - VW/Merc want it to rot so you buy another van 💰

Nice work bud. Use what you can and have a go . Painting aint easy at the best of times. like the galvanized trick. Doing my sprinter now. Seems are same .

Thank you for your video.

Great work!! About to start the journey myself and your videos have saved me so much time!! Thanks. Question - In wheel archers, did you put Grey Stripe Seam Sealer directly on the Zinga coat, or did you put a layer of epoxy primer between the two?

wow. Someone actually wanted to save that rust bucket, if it was me I would have send it directly to the junk yard

good job i like the sound of the zenga..if dont mind what was your total material cost? cheer

Are you sure they didn’t design the body that can double up as water tank? Just so if you are stuck in desert you could survive on the water “stored” in wheel arches etc

It*s surprising, that a Mercedes, Sprinter would rust, unless the vanwas near a place where there is sand /salt, which basically eat the metal,annother issue is the amount of water that drained out , usually when they design cars /vans, they have, flow holes so the water doesn*t collect in one spot, unless the holecwas clogged or if when they repaired the damage covered the hole, that would explain the amount of water collected in one spot, as a suggestion I would make a type of drain hole so the water does not collect in that area,good job,👌👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

hello brother where can i find the color code .mercedes sprinter f3 2003..

Thanks bro

Is the bodywork still holding up? Can you make a follow up video about it? Thanks.

Great video! with the seam sealer did you end up covering the whole area inside the wheel arch and not just the seam?

I can understand what you say man

Nice work. I can't place your accent though. Are you a Russian living in Scotland?!

Crafters/Sprinters are terrible for rust. Even at 3 or 4 yrs old they start to rust. I like the Scottish twang you have.

That ain't for beginners but nice video.

mercedes vans are a joke got fed up of the rust appearing monthly

Mercedes & VW just to treat the metal correctly. Really poorly built

Mercedes -Banditen organization !

Nice work mate and thank you for the tips.

Romanian Scottish accent?

Jesus, where's the accent from ?

good stuff man!

great stuff ..... i like your instruction process...... can i hear a nice hint of a Glasgow accent in your voice :) ....all the best

Got to say , nice work brother , very impressive. Very thorough, very detailed . Superb !!!....thanks for the very informative video .

great vid thank you bud, can you remember what tip and air pressure you used on your gun to spray the zinga please? Slava Ukraini

ohh nice! Is there another way to do it? As i have rusty ford transit and need to spray it. Check us out and give me few tips please.

sprinter vans have drain holes under the both sides of the van these get blocked with mud

I will be fixing and painting my van for the first time also.

Fantastic..you are a bodywork craftsman...

Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. Not a bad effort for a Scottish Russian

thanks for sharing !