My Volvo 740 is made of FILLER! Can it be Saved?

Thick black underseal is hiding serious rust and holes on this 33 year old Volvo 745.
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[@noriv23]

for the love ov Volvo! may the force be with you...

[@TheBonswah]

Viennetta, hmmmm delicious! Glad to see you are not giving up on this one :)

[@fhwolthuis]

Nice that you mention Matt from Furious Driving, one of my favourite channels here 😄👍🏻

[@Involvod]

Nice, we watch him often too he's a good guy 😄 A very lovely 740 as well!

[@completeexteriorcleaningse750]

You got your early cut out there but you'll fix it massive respect for not just leaving too......and the ending I was waiting for Here's Sledey LOL

[@Involvod]

Haha next time I'll do it, there's sure to be one 😅

[@englishgrandad3298]

Soon as you said you could leave it, i knew you wouldn't :D you would not sleep well at night. We have faith in ye.

[@Involvod]

I had to know how bad it was 😅 Cheers!

[@seanwade58]

“It’s just fucked” 🤣 enjoyed that mate! Keep them coming 👍🏻

[@Involvod]

Thanks mate, will do! Currently cutting out the floors to make way for fresh steel!

[@umbrawakanda9718]

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[@marcinbujok7388]

Hammer time! That's a thick filler cake. Definitelly worth saving! You are doing a great job. Looking forward to see how you repair it. All the best!

[@Involvod]

Thanks man!

[@fannycraddock99]

Your passion motivates you, just like your brother. I totally understand why you could not leave it like that. You will get there in the end.

[@Involvod]

Definitely, I wouldn't have the patience if I didn't love these things so much! Thanks 🙏

[@CaptainSlow1992]

I've had two '89 740 estates that had the same level of floorpan rust as this over the last two years. One I sold because it was too much of a project, the rear wheel arches and sills around the jacking points were all rotten and it went right up behind the axle into the boot floor, the chassis rails were just patches on top of patches and the floors and seam where the sills meets the floor was all buggered. The car was made of underseal, when I jacked it up the jacking points collapsed into the sills! Shame, one owner from 1993 onwards, stacks of history and it LOOKED really tidy on top and even had 6 months MOT when I picked it up, but it was only £300... I rebuilt my Triumph Acclaim instead, not much less rusty but it'd already proven itself reliable. Bought another cheap (£750) 740 and low and behold the front floors transpired to be made of hopes and dreams, that Volvo factory underseal and bitumen sound deadening does a damn good job of pretending to be metal even without filler! This one will see welding action as the chassis rails and sills are actually decent. Hopefully yours goes again! At least if you chop the floors out you can grind back and treat all the surface rust inside the chassis rails!

[@Involvod]

Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you said this because there's signs that someone started to sort this one out, some filler repair (not finished or even hidden) on the rear arch, new brakes, they started looking into the tailgate lock, new oil and filter it looks like and a few other things, made me wonder why on earth they'd do that with it having such bad floors, but maybe they didn't see how bad it was... that also explains how he had so many big slabs of rusted metal to layer in with filler, must have been a late discovery if it looked okay at a glance. Good luck with yours! I've been busy on this one all week!

[@resssas]

Well, sorry to see this, it sucks that such a thing was hidden. It's in similar or even better condition than mine 760 turbo was, but at least I knew about the problem when I bought it. I just finished welding floor in both drivers and passanger sides and had a huge hole in the trunk floor(next to tailights). Can't wait for the next episode to see how you deal with this and don't be discouraged!

[@Involvod]

Glad to hear you saved it, how did you find welding the floors? Did it take long?

[@resssas]

@@Involvod well it took couple of days. I can send you some images on instagram :)

[@crika50]

@@resssas could you share with me too? Going thru the same issue right now

[@emmapartridge1244]

Good luck crazy woodpecker man 😆 quite a bit to do there 😄 xx

[@Involvod]

Haha yeah, thanks!

[@BeardedWrencher]

Major bummer it's crusty, but glad you're fixing it up! Another one saved!

[@Involvod]

Yeah man 🤘

[@revolution1one]

Adding that "Would you look at it" meme made my day! I remember that so well, I nearly choked!

[@WhitelandRestorations]

Totally missed the opportunity to say...... Here's involvoooo'd! 😂 Wow some people just have no problem just pasting over the cracks. Viennetta footwells! 😱

[@Involvod]

I didn't even think about that, next time, there's sure to be one 😅

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

lmao mate i was gonna say vienneta xD fuckin work to be had there

[@Involvod]

😄 oh yeah, proper graft

[@bobdelaplage690]

We decided today to vise a metal plate in from outside( removing the undercoating was impossible) and cover the seams with debrasel( this is polyester with 80 % metalshavings inside…it is well known by bodyrepairers, and used for strong parts of chassis. Its not cheap! 65 euros for 1 kg, but a nice product to have around, have you had experience with it? Its worth a try, you can consider it one step highetr quality then fiberpolyester, with the mighty + , it doesnt attract water, doesnt rust, and you can drill into it…you gotta love the product! Guys like you become happier with that product in the shed…

[@mortimergladbreath]

Wow! That's really bad. Will be interesting to see your solutions.

[@Involvod]

Me too 😅

[@evanlewis4857]

Such a bummer, but glad you are saving it. On the plus side, you'll get to try some welding, and the floor pans shouldn't be nearly as tricky as a pillar or tyre well. Good luck and looking forward to the next episode. That motor sounds rock solid!

[@Involvod]

That's what I thought, it's forcing me to have a go at welding, it's about time I learnt especially working on 30+ year old cars 😄 I'm only having a go because it's not those tricky areas you mentioned or structural. Thanks!

[@chevyguy1422]

that was not too bad

[@RichieRouge206]

Oh jeeeez, that front is dreadful. The 740s always go there at the front of the footwells so I’m not surprised and the rest shouldn’t be bad.. I 100% feel the same about the car, I think she is worth sorting. All that blue trim looks so familiar, had a few interiors on 740s, the seperate carpets at the front are handy. That plastic trim gets very brittle

[@Involvod]

Exactly, I had a good root around and the rest seems surprisingly good, so worth saving 🙏 I'm loving the blueness!

[@kingofdubb2133]

I had an 1986 740 about 22 years ago, so only 14 years old, and it had holes in the front footwells that I got welded, whereas my I just checked my current 26 year old 940, and they're fine

[@MrSkoda105s]

Tiramisu or Viennetta 😂

[@palerider7708]

Bit of a bugger about that floor but happy to see your committed to saving the 7 as you’re right, it’s too nice to scrap/part out (this from a Volvo agnostic) but I was surprised to hear you say it would of passed as is, as I thought in Germany they were pretty strict on their roadworthy tests? Keep up the good work, cheers from Oz.

[@Involvod]

Cheers! They are super strict, but I mean before I hammered the filler out, they wouldn't have known, or been able to hit it that hard

[@FixedByDuncan]

What kind of Aris hole do you have to be to sell a car full of filler?. Unbelievable. You took it well though 😂.. And yes, my first thought was "that looks like Vianetta" and the you said it.

[@Involvod]

Haha, yeah the guy did seem to be the sort, he was the big bulldog in the first video, I wasn't so surprised 😂

[@EnriqueLopez-hb5jn]

If it ain*t a lot of rust, buy some rust preventer, or COD-15 to convert it to metal, and patch up the holes,,but put a rust treatment on, the 740 is in much better condition than the 240 wagon that was falling apart

[@Involvod]

Thanks, I'm going to try and cut out and grind back as much as possible, but the frame will definitely need a treatment. I feel better about this one as the 240 had structural issues, this one seems much less severe, even if the holes are technically bigger 😃

[@DeanofMachines]

Knock the filler out and enjoy that free ventilation!

[@Involvod]

If it didn't already come with air-con from factory I'd seriously consider it!

[@jfv65]

yep, the early 700's do suffer from rust. Volvo gradually started to make them more and more out of galvanised steel. That's why the later 700's and certainly the 900's have way less rust. Your car might have had a leak at some earlier stage of it's existence. The moisture collects in the carpet and starts to rot out the floor of the cabin. But as far as i could asses it's still saveable because the structural sills are still solid. Welding in a piece of sheet metal or a rust free section from a juckyard car should be doable.

[@Involvod]

Yeah, they certainly seem better than the 200, at least. Thanks, that's the plan, hopefully the frame cleans up nicely 🤞

[@mayflowerlash11]

I can't tell how glad I am to hear that Volvo gradually improved the rust resistance of their cars from the early 700's to the 900 series. Because when I bought my Volvo to replace the '84 240 I sold years before, I settled on a 940. The 240 to 940 are so similar I reasoned that Volvo had to keep improving from model to model. The original 240 was a brilliant design and it just got better over the next decades. I hope the steel patching job goes smoothly for you.

[@SimpsonsClassics]

Such a shame mate I don’t know why people do this! It’s madness

[@swed_sled]

i think we are getting to a point where we HAVE to save them

[@Involvod]

Definitely 💪

[@rogerbengtsson2809]

Ho repairs a car with plastic. Its ofcourse reparable but it takes a bit of time

[@ched999uk]

That 'filler' stood up to a lot of hammering before it let go!! Hopefully you are OK with a welder. Just spotted the 'here's Johnny' thumbnail :-)

[@Involvod]

Never even touched one! I'm going to give it a go though, it can't get much worse can it 😃

[@ched999uk]

@@Involvod One tip about welding is you can only weld to nice shiny steel, you can't welt to rust!!!! Mig is probably easiest, don't try an arc welder as think steel is mega difficult to weld with arc. Get some scrap car panels to practice with. Watch lots of youtube vids and good luck. Oh don't forget auto darkening mask and gloves. I once tried to teach my self to mig weld, I practices for about an hour, next day woke up with severe burns on hand, the intense light can burn skin!!!!!

[@Involvod]

Thanks, I didn't know that! Definitely going to get all the correct equipment (for once) and i've started on the YT videos, watched a crazy old Aussie fella that said "it's just like using a bloody hot glue gun" which gave me some confidence 😄

[@ched999uk]

@@Involvod Clean metal and the right settings on the machine help big time. Hot glue gun mmmm I would say not that easy at all. Basically a mig melts metal with a big current, you need the mig wire close to the metal (1mm ish) so that it 'arcs' then maintaining the gap will create a molten pool of steel, you then move along the joint keeping the arc and pool going. So the speed the wire comes out is important as well as enough current to maintain the pool. If you are welding in a section to make sure the panel doesn't distort you have to weld a small 1 inch section then move to another side and repeat - stitch welding. I am sure there are decent youtube vids that show it much better than I can explain. Have at least 1 bucket of water handy in case anything catches fire! Good luck.

[@Involvod]

@@ched999uk thanks for the tips mate, really big help!

[@NemanjaPantelic]

Love the vid. So, what are we going to do about it. You can't just go Flintstoning it around Berlin, can you? :) Would you ever join forces with a German Volvo Wizard and turn a banger into a really beautiful brick?

[@Involvod]

Well I'm hoping to become the German Volvo wizard, who isn't German 😃 Definitely going to either weld it or find someone who can though

[@NemanjaPantelic]

@@Involvod Good plan. This was just my desire talking - to see these beautiful cars looking really good, tidy and back on the roads again quickly. Saving bricks is a noble task.

[@galgolan8534]

OMG 😅

[@fhwolthuis]

Did the seller just filled it and undercoated it recently and then sold it as a "barn find"? 😕

[@Involvod]

Exactly! It was last registered around 10 years ago, so was probably a legitimate barn find when they bought it fairly recently, too much work for them so bodged it up and passed it on!

[@AITOR189]

Wich is the lenght of the front spoiler?

[@GothKid1996]

oops.......

[@bobdelaplage690]

Same big hole in floor, my god this undercoating can really backfire on you, doesnt it?

[@samizannad1844]

I mean old 9oos

[@samizannad1844]

Old Saab are much better