body work
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body work
well im gonna try it out for the first time...
i need some advice and since guilty is NEVER online i went to the next body guy i knew....the visionz breaker.gif lol
anyways
i have a few dents in my car and one large dent
click here to view dent
i plan on sanding down the entire car and leaving it in black primer("suede" to you ol skoolers" wink.gif ) here is my questions
what kinda filler do you recommend?
i know you want fine grit sand paper to get it smooth but what grade? i have a disk sander at home im gonna use to get it down to the metal...
i know on the bumpers you gotta use a flexible agent since its plastic... what kind do you recommend?
i was thinkin of shaving my antenna and door handles also but since i dont know how to weld that might be difficult...
meh maybe i should just go visit guilty and have him help me tongue.gif
i need some advice and since guilty is NEVER online i went to the next body guy i knew....the visionz breaker.gif lol
anyways
i have a few dents in my car and one large dent
click here to view dent
i plan on sanding down the entire car and leaving it in black primer("suede" to you ol skoolers" wink.gif ) here is my questions
what kinda filler do you recommend?
i know you want fine grit sand paper to get it smooth but what grade? i have a disk sander at home im gonna use to get it down to the metal...
i know on the bumpers you gotta use a flexible agent since its plastic... what kind do you recommend?
i was thinkin of shaving my antenna and door handles also but since i dont know how to weld that might be difficult...
meh maybe i should just go visit guilty and have him help me tongue.gif
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I'm not the best guy to answer any of your body filler questions, just wanted to make sure you plan on pulling the dent before sanding and body filling. Looks like most of that dent would come out with a suction cup type or glue on type puller probably. You may need the spot weld type or to pull the interior panels out of the hatch and push the dent back out.
You probably were going to do this already, just wanted to bring it up in case you weren't. smile.gif
You probably were going to do this already, just wanted to bring it up in case you weren't. smile.gif
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As for the dent it I would try to access it from inside the trunk. I know that there are interior supports but you should be able to get something in between them and push the dent outward some. Use something with no sharp edges b/c you dont want them poking out the metal. Or you may go by a bodyshop and see what they would charge you to just stud weld it out and then you do the body work at home.
As far as filler I love Dyna-glass short strand fiberglass filler. Just like bondo but it's fiberglass that is chopped up and all you need to do is add hardner to it. But it will stand up better then bondo after you sand it down use some metal glaze over it to fill the pinholes left in the fiberglass.
As for the bumper get some 3M two-part poly-urthane bumper repair kit to fix the bumper. That stuff is asome it's about 40 at a local body shop supply store.
I use 180 for the final sand then get some high build primer and block sand it out. I usually use paint as a guide coat everytime I sand down filler. It will show you where there are high spots and low spots in the filler. And another good sugestion is cross-sand in a X pattern this will help cut the filler down faster. But after you primer it and are block sanding it make sure you sand with the body lines. Guide coat it thick and start sanding where the body line is sand above and below the body line. But leave the guide coat on the body line. This will show you if the body line is straight or not.
Hope that helps.
As for the dent it I would try to access it from inside the trunk. I know that there are interior supports but you should be able to get something in between them and push the dent outward some. Use something with no sharp edges b/c you dont want them poking out the metal. Or you may go by a bodyshop and see what they would charge you to just stud weld it out and then you do the body work at home.
As far as filler I love Dyna-glass short strand fiberglass filler. Just like bondo but it's fiberglass that is chopped up and all you need to do is add hardner to it. But it will stand up better then bondo after you sand it down use some metal glaze over it to fill the pinholes left in the fiberglass.
As for the bumper get some 3M two-part poly-urthane bumper repair kit to fix the bumper. That stuff is asome it's about 40 at a local body shop supply store.
I use 180 for the final sand then get some high build primer and block sand it out. I usually use paint as a guide coat everytime I sand down filler. It will show you where there are high spots and low spots in the filler. And another good sugestion is cross-sand in a X pattern this will help cut the filler down faster. But after you primer it and are block sanding it make sure you sand with the body lines. Guide coat it thick and start sanding where the body line is sand above and below the body line. But leave the guide coat on the body line. This will show you if the body line is straight or not.
Hope that helps.
