Well just last night a noticed dampness on my back left seat so i pulled it and found a medium sized rust hole leading directly into the well. Its not so big that it'll mess with the strut mounting. how would igo about fixing this? ive already took a wire brush to it but i want soemething permanent, i have some silicon tape covering it with sum duct tape reinforcement. Should i take it to midas weld?

 

YOU NEED to check your rear seatbelt brackets to make sure they are not bolted into pure rust, it’s a known issue with 3rd gens.

If however your rust is like mine, you can clean it up with a dermal buy some sheet medal prime the medal prime the cleaned/stripped rusted area, place the sheet over the hole and pop rivet it into place.
I also used some heavy duty poly sealant to fill in around the cracks.

Prime everything again, and spray a coat of underbody spray in your wheel well


OH and if you think you only have one rust whole in your well, think again, take a hammer and poke around to find them all. Takes about 2 hours to do several holes.

 

i took out my seat belts about a month ago to install an amp and it seemed fine. But yeah the surrounding metal on the rust seems like crap. And when i bought the car there was already underbody coating in the wells and on the under carriage. maybe just a missed spot? im gonna go at it with a hammer like you said.

 

it may be covered under the recall.

 

maybe. but if his stealerships are like they are in Kentucky they will tell him to go forth and multiply.

I love this generation of maxima but some things arent worth fixing/dealing with nissan.

Heat up some
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=347576

 

that's why you call nissan and the NHTSA

 

Well, you are 150% correct. If you plan on having people in your backseat (that you like) then go out of your way to get this done...

Myself? I have way too much **** in my backseat to fit people into so it doesnt matter.

 

i doubt it wil be covered under recal... cause my friend brought his back not to long ago and the dealer gave us all the bull**** like it shoulda been fixed years ago etc etc

 

that's why you call in the big dogs