So I see it's a common problem among x308s that kf the car gets tapped into the rear bumper the rear wheel arches start rusting.

I have 2 jags which show rust by the rear wheel arches and under tail lights.

Some parts I'm pretty sure I will have to cut out and weld back patches.

Is there a place that sells reproductions? Or am I on my own fabricating the pieces I will need?

 

I did the old fashioned cut and paste. Cut out the bad and weld in the new. I had to do the most posterior rear wheel arches, under the rear tails, and the bases of the front fenders where they border the rockers. To the best of my knowledge there are not any reproduction body patch kits out there but there should be!

 

I just finished this particular job on my 308; somewhere in a previous life, she's been tapped on the right side (as evidenced that the right rear door, when looked at in the proper light, you can see that there have been some dents worked out...and the VIN tag is missing, so, it's either been removed when the door was redone, or it was a replacement door). The front of the right rear wheel arch was toast; so, I watched EBay for wrecker yard postings out of TX/CA/NM/AZ for Jag parts, and when I found a rear quarter being sold, negotiated to have just the part I needed cut out. The hunk I needed cost me about $100. USD plus shipping, which is what I paid for the entire rear quarter, but only asked to have him ship what I needed.

Brought to my body guy...he cut out the old rotting stuff, built up new metal where needed, cold galvanized exposed metal, welded the replacement metal in place, shot lots of waxoyl into the body where it was open, closed up everything, sealed and undercoated the inside of the arch and repainted the outside. You really have to look closely to see where, the match was that good.

Yeah, once you tap these things, seams open up and water ingress soon turns that fine English steel into iron oxide.

 

all the problems I have are where the arches are meeting the rear bumper. I'd need 3 pieces about 6"x6". I might try beating a sheet of metal into that shape.

 

Thanks for showing the interior construction.

I think that area might be reachable from the trunk
by a hose over the wheel arch.

I'm a big fan of oil spraying.

 

Might want to check out Nick Woods project.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ogress-139268/

 

It is, up under the window. May have to poke thru, but it is reachable.

We sprayed so much in there it was running out the drain holes for at least a day.

So, we did the other side, too.

 

Good plan.

Yes, I mean past the back lip of the trunk to the sides.

Sprayed a lot of "fluid film" back there when I was finishing
the job the "mechanic" was supposed to have done changing
the fuel pumps.

Seeing that it also merges into the rockers by having openings,
a good dose of cheap 20W50 will be in order.

I just have to cobble up a hose and spray orifice.