Is anyone a panel beater, or can do body work?

[Astron_Boy]

Just curious.
From some of the quotes I've had to fix the largish dents in the NX, I'm tempted to try myself.
Alternatively wondering if someone in the land of FTO Aus is a panel beater and can give further tips on how to fix the dents I have.

Have watched plenty of boobtube videos and also car resto shows, so I have a vague clue of what to do, but having someone give pointers in my particular case would be awesome.

Not looking to have it immaculate, I know it won't be, but something a bit less obvious than what it currently is...

[Bennoz]

I f**king hate body work. Its so f**king boring... so much work for some little result.

I once resprayed a mini & we rubbed it back to bare metal. Never again.

You'll need paint stripper, a ball peen hammer, some bog, sand paper, more bog, more sandpaper, more bog, more fking sandpaper, then the fine dimple filling spray bog stuff, then more sanding, then more fine bog spray, then more god damned sanding, then primer, then wet & dry sanding, more primer, more wet & dry sanding, then final coat of primer.....

Then your ready to paint!



Seriously, thats why panel beaters are all so god damned retarded, apart from breathing in toxic fumes all day everyday, all they do is sand. I'd go mad too.

[Astron_Boy]

You'll need paint stripper, a ball peen hammer, some bog, sand paper, more bog, more sandpaper, more bog, more fking sandpaper, then the fine dimple filling spray bog stuff, then more sanding, then more fine bog spray, then more god damned sanding, then primer, then wet & dry sanding, more primer, more wet & dry sanding, then final coat of primer.....

Then your ready to paint!

Thank you kind sir for your excellent response.
I enjoyed reading this and agree with your views.
Do you have a Newsletter I could sign up to.

Also, are you soon thinking of making a text based DIY guide for love making?

Edit: but yeah, did a bit of rust removal on the Sedan, f'n attrocious, however that car is rotten with cancer, so...

If I can't get any decent results on the smaller dents which should be a rubber mallet and slab of wood job, then I'll simply hock up the cash and have some knob do the work for me.

Trying to weigh up the effort of doing something to a car I bought for peanuts is horrid.

[Bennoz]

DIY guide for love making?

Already done good sir. Just add a colon *sniggers* to either side of word UTBNB and ye shall see said guide

[Tippin]

Not too hard at all

You have two choices with the large dents, u can try bash em out which i doubt you will be able to (too big) or buy a "dent pulling tool" from autobarn. You may have to pull it out from two points, that will get it relatively level with the body line of the car, then its just a layer of body filler over the top and sand it smooth.

You probably wont need it but if you want help with sanding come round to my place, i got some air sanding tools which make it 20x quicker.

[Astron_Boy]

DIY guide for love making?

Already done good sir. Just add a colon *sniggers* to either side of word UTBNB and ye shall see said guide

Genius!

Not too hard at all

You have two choices with the large dents, you can try bash em out which i doubt you will be able to (too big) or buy a "dent pulling tool" from autobarn. You may have to pull it out from two points, that will get it relatively level with the body line of the car, then its just a layer of body filler over the top and sand it smooth.

You probably wont need it but if you want help with sanding come round to my place, i got some air sanding tools which make it 20x quicker.

Yeah, figured that is where I would be at in doing this.
Will have a whack at it and see how I go.

[FTO-BOY]

Hey ben I've heard that you shouldn't wet & dry sand for body fillers as they absorb moisture and this can later affect the finish of the paint?

[Bennoz]

You could well be right mate, Im no panel beater

[SchumieFan]

you can borrow my pops-a-dent

[Astron_Boy]

Cheers
Gonna see how I go with the smaller stuff, then judge if I bother with the larger or go a panel beater or what...

[SchumieFan]

i was serious... that things magic

[bduffman]

read this yesterday and started watching youtube videos
best one i saw was a old school pannel beater
he was using Dollie on the back and a file bent like this ____;------ ( you get what i mean ) basicly he called it a slap stick

basicly put the Dollie on the back and slap the high spot on the out side it will look like this ( -^v^- ) ^ being the high part and v being the dent
it will push the dent out and the high spots back . cause its a old file it will leave a # mark and thats how you know its been pushed out


for the bigger dents he used a wood or rubber mallet starting from the high spot ( most dented )