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Old 11-04-2010, 09:43 PM
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With a colour like that going to the wreckers and using a match is going to piss you off even more as its going to look hideous! also being an FTO you're going to pay a crap tonne more then the repair costs due to all the unnecessary parts you'll be buying 'recommend this to a soarer owner and watch them shit bricks'.

If you're comfortable with your handy man skills the way to repair that would be with a flat pain hammer and dolly (a solid metal block that's roughly the same shape as the door), though not having worked on an FTO before I don't know if the intrusion bar is going to cause you grief (you may have to release the glue between the intrusion bar and the door skin, or the intrusion bar may be positioned in such a way so you'll need to use a lever instead of a dolly).

If you simply just punch it out it'll cost more to fix as you'll just be stretching the metal, as can be seen around the outer edges of the dent are what's called 'high spots', with the rest of the dent being a 'low spot(s)', so in order to bring the low spots up one must 'with the right force applied', tap down the high spots 'slowly working your way around and watching what happens to the low spots as you're doing this', in order to bring the panel back as close as possible to its original shape.

I doubt you'll be able to bring that back without having to fill it or crack the paint 'mainly due to the crease at the top'.

Another thing to consider before tackling this job without the right skills is stretching the metal. As can be seen with almost all cars of today, when applying even the smallest amount of pressure to a panel it flexes, so if you don't hit the high spots in the right place, all you'll be doing is stretching the metal even more (eventually turning the panel into a Rolf Harris Wobble Board), which is just going to cost more to fix due to the additional time needed to shrink the metal back.

If you require a good honest panel beater that does top grade work shoot me a pm as my father has a small two man operation panel shop in Maylands and 'current workload prohibiting', may be able to fit you in.

Cheers.
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