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garyj19 · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 226 Location: Connecticut

well. you see i was apparently 'driving too fasxt for conditions' and went around a corner when it was raining. the car slid, and slid, and wouldnt stop sliding. eventually, i hit the curb and went up an embankment, and yeah, you can fill in the rest from there. anyways, under the door, there is a dent thing where the bottom part bent up towards the bottom of the car, and i dont know how to pound that out and whatnot. anyone got any ideas? i cant get to it from the back, becuase theres another peice of metal there. help?
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NEMESIS · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

You will need to use a stud welder and pull the dent out that way and then fill with body filler.

JB 924 · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 606 Location: Hessen, Germany

Already trashed the new paint? That sucks!

Smoothie · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

I'm currently using this "Everglass" short strand fiber reinforced filler -
http://www.evercoat.com/imgs/pis/EVERGLASSPIS.pdf
http://www.evercoat.com/productDetail.aspx?pID=36
I actually started with USC's equivalent to that <click>, but ran out (1 qt.) and wound up switching to a gallon of Everglass when I went back for more due to limited availability of the USC. Advantages to these short fiber reinforced fillers are they're waterproof (good for the area you'll be using it) and they're stronger than the lite-weight non-reinforced not-waterproof porous easier-sanding fillers (good for future off-road excursions, but try to avoid those anyway). The short strand fillers are also easy to apply - not like the long strand versions that are apparently somewhat of a hassle. In fact with both the USC and Everglass short-strand products, you can't even see the fibers while the long strand products look like something the cat coughed up - sorry.

Here are a couple good articles I've been referring to while working -
the first post by "MartinSr" here - http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7590
and - http://www.roadsters.com/filler/
Pay special attention to the condensation issue - don't apply filler to cool metal on a humid day because it will be moist. Warm the panel first and/or work on low-humidity days.
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