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YOUR RESEARCHMystery spots behind the front wing?
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Repair guy...very bright led lights and he got
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Appointment with a paintless dent repair guy...very bright LED lights and he got that dent out perfectly.
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I would say that a DIY person did this rather than taking it to a professional paintless dent repair person to fix this.
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So looks like someone used a bucket load of filler there but why?
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^^^Professionals use stud pullers too - not everything can be fixed via PDR (though it's pretty amazing how much can be)...
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Here's a mystery?
I noticed that the front wing alignment is not perfect - the gap between the door and the front wing is about 7-8mm when measured from the lower part of the door and around 4-5 from the top part.
I finally got a paint thickness meter and aha-a.... something has happened to that area between the door and the passenger side front wing. It measures paint thickness about 20 mils (!) around the area (left, right, bottom) but towards the middle it goes over the scale (80+ mils!) and that area goes towards the fuel tank gap - the worst area is like between mid point between the fuel tank gap and the ground - so about a feet from the ground. So looks like someone used a bucket load of filler there but why? That got me curious. Obvious thing is rust - maybe?
So I took my endoscope and put the camera through that small area that is above the passenger side door and pointed down - here are the pictures - any idea what those round things are - there are these a brownish edges around the holes so did someone drill through the metal.
My long shot guess is that if there was some small rust spots outside and they drilled through to remove those... or?
To me they look like an area where tangs where spot welded on the outside in order to pull out a dent. I don't know exactly what the method is called but I have seen it done. Several tangs are welded on the metal, and a slide hammer is used to pull out the dent.
Thanks - that kind of explains. Although considering that the area is kind of small and narrow how is it done because there are "dozens" of those spots some of them so close to each other.
The non-readable area is like this - a really rough estimate from my memory - Sorry about borrowing "Doug" image (my car is a fit further away so I'll replace that later with my own). A bit weird place for a dent maybe if you think where middle part could be around.
Any ideas how those might be done etc ?
^^ I agree with this. I whammed my portable air compressor in the front left fender and it left an indentation (dent). Appointment with a paintless dent repair guy...very bright LED lights and he got that dent out perfectly. You cannot even tell it was there. He was very careful and worked on it until there was not the slightest blemish, both with the dent and with the paint. I think it was like $75.
