fixing his mess #2 (pics)

ok the family friend that messed up his rollpan has once again striked! now that i have some time, i am gonna go do it right with out him. so far this is what he has done


this is what he has done the past weekend for our family
i am gonna take the light out and sand it down. never have done a fix-it project like this befor. could anybody tell me what to do other than sant it down as flat as possible and use bondo or kitty-hair to smooth it out?

grind that shit out with an 80 grit flap disc on a 4-1/2" grinder. take the light out and try to pop as much of the dent out as you can. if you have to, cut the area out and cut the area out of a good donor vehicle and weld it in. then again, it looks like thats an 80s dodge caravan so i would just remove it, fix the dents, and use as little bondo as possible. cant tell how deep that dent is. just had to do that on my parts truck fender. for a minor bubble. retards.

Take it to a pro before you make it any worse if thats even possible.

Originally posted by JPerry



Take it to a pro before you make it any worse if thats even possible.

how else are we to learn if we take everything to a pro? all the things i would need to fix it 3x's over would be cheeper than to take her in. all i was asking for were some tips. i thank you for yours but i wanted people to post up tips to help the process not give the project and all my money away. (they guy that messed it up tryed the best he could with what he had didnt he?)

get a sanding block, some 80 grit, and start sanding. get some more bondo, add to car, and sand again.

do you know what he tried to smooth out the bondo with?

i hope you didnt pay for that man. I bet the dent didnt look that bad

looks like he put the bondo on with a dirt bike

^^^ lol, use a football for a sanding block, it'll turn out pimp!

seriously though, grind it all out, you've got issues well past what he did... grind the mud out, and grind out past the other dents and shit, then spread mud over the whole area at once...

while it's still fairly soft (not sticky, but not yet rock hard) hit it w/ a sanding block with 36 on it. that will show you if you have high spots or not... if you do, tap them in and repeat this step.

once it's straight w/ 36, you want a very light coat of mud over that, and then block again w/ 80.

after that's straight, i'd feather out the 80 scratches in the original paint around where you've been working w/ 180. leaving them (assuming you've made scratches) will eventually come back to haunt you.

now it's primer time... prime it out overlapping into the orig paint just a bit, then once dry block it all w/ 180. assuming you've done the first steps right, you shouldn't notice any highs/lows at this point, you should be just getting rid of the 80 scratches.

if not, prime again and repeat, unless it's really fucked, then start back w/ 80 again....

if it's golden, reprime, then hit it w/ 320 on a D/A, then scotchbrite the orig paint on the panel, and your ready for paint.

don't forget to use some wax/grease remover on the whole panel before starting any of this, or you'll have fish eyes all over probably...

i'm drunk and probably left out some shit, but that's the basic idea i think... good luck!

you'll prob need to pull the bumper and borrow a stud gun or use some other dent puller to pop that out too... looks like it goes under the bumper cover some...