Steve&Steve
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| posted on 23/4/05 at 10:47 PM |
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Minor dent removal help needed.
I'm repairing a salvage yard car as a cheap motor for my self. P-reg escort 1.3 cost £299 from Simpson Salvage in york (V light damage).
I have bought a front wing, headlamp and bonnet for £30 from local scrappers.
Before I spray the bonnet the correct colour (Blue) I would rather get rid of the dints in it if possible to do cheaply.
Do you lot think I should :
A) Get some sort of suction dent puller, if so what? Is the machine mart one (pg164) for larger dints?
B) Use a bit of filler and sand it off, or is it likley to be tricky to get smooth?.
C) Leave it as it is and spray it blue after all thay arn't all that bad?
D) Drill a small (10mm?) hole under each dent in the 2nd skin of the bonnet and try to push it out with something (Ideas?) from the inside?
As ever all ideas appreciated, hopefully it will be decent weather tomorrow so I can crack on with it.
Cheers - Steve -
 
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/4/05 at 11:10 PM |
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Filler it.
Something that light can be filled easily enough. Fetch the paint off and fill onto the bare metal with a few coats, don't be greedy and try to
do it all in one go. Take it down with some 80 grit on a block then fill the scratches in with a light final coat and rub it down with 400 wet and
dry. Prime it and check for level then paint it. Anything deeper either drill a hole and put a self tapper in, then pull it out with mole grips or mig
a piece of 2.5mm gas welding rod to the bottom of the dent and pull it out then cut it off and grind the blob off.
[Edited on 23/4/05 by Peteff]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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phelpsa
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| posted on 24/4/05 at 08:52 AM |
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Leave it, give it some character!
Adam
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Steve&Steve
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| posted on 26/4/05 at 06:26 PM |
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I followed Pete's advice and fillered it, I got a good final result in the end although I did make one bodge. Concentrating on getting the filler
right I neglected the 80 grit scratches I had put in the surrounding paint. They looked bad after I primed it so had to go back and sand them out
properly too. Looks OK now though.
I have added some 'character' by bodging the colour spraying though. (I'll start another post for that advise).
 
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