Body damage estimate?

BosoMKII

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Not a Supra, but maybe you guys can help.
Wondering if any of you have some experience with this sort of thing. My car was hit before I bought it, but I really want this huge ugly dent fixed. I don't have it running yet, but once I do I plan to drive it to a few different shops and see what they say about fixing the damage. I have no idea what to expect ( aside from expensive ) so any advice would be much appreciated.


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Its pretty bad. Some people are telling me it can be pulled out and bondo filled. Others are telling me most of the rear quarter pannel will need to be cut out and have new metal welded in, shaped and finished. I know nothing about body work, can you guys tell me anything by looking at those photos?
Any of you ever fixed something this bad yourself?
 
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get another pic of the entire rear from a far, sitting back.
 
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These are the best I have for now. The car won't come out of the garage for some time, so I can't get the shot you are asking for until then.

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im guessing a good shop would cut the body panel off and weld another back in.
Get a new drivers light, and bumper and the appropriat badging. Is there any damage to the trunk lid?

i doubt they would hammer that out and bondo it, doesnt make sense $$ wise lots of labor. Probably alot cheaper to goto a scrap yard cut off a side panel and reweld it onto yours. prep, paint and bam done. Rather than hammering all the dents out, and bondoing then prepping and painting.
 
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No damage to the trunk as far as I can tell. The tail light is actually fine, no cracks or any sign of damage. I do have an extra set though, they came with the car! I think the last owner bought them just in case when an opertunity came up. The badges seem fine too. I think they can be re-used. The bumper is junk though. I have no idea where I can find another!
That is interesting that you say a good shop would cut and weld. So far all the response I am getting from asking different people is 50/50. About half say cut and about half say pull.
Edit: I think based on what you say, it would be a pull. I didn't realize that a cut and weld would require an actual body pannel from the same type of car. I have never seen one of these before. Ever. It would be amazing to me if a body shop could track one down. But then, I don't know much about how all this works. Maybe a body shop has access to junkyards that I don't even know about
 
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just go get another one. haha. just messing. but i guess to the untrained eye it doesnt look to bad. but who knows.
 
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i dont know, im not a body work specialist but given if i had to do it. Ive seen shotty pull/hammer work and if its not done really good im sure it looks like crap. If i was a body person i would prefer to cut and weld.
 
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Exactly. I don't want a bunch of crappy bondo pasted on to my classic Toyota. I would prefer new metal as well, but I know next to nothing about what is required for this type of work. Thats why I want as many opinions as possible!
 
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yea there is no way that is getting pulled and hammered out, your going to have to get a new panel made or find one.
its going to cost a pretty pennie too.
 
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D34DC311 said:
yea there is no way that is getting pulled and hammered out, your going to have to get a new panel made or find one.
its going to cost a pretty pennie too.
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I'm not so sure. I had a Supra repaired that was worse then that and it was fixed and has very little bondo. A good body shop will have the right equipment to fix that.
 
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That is one factor that I was considering, is that if a new panel would have to be fabricated from scratch, I think the cost would be beyond me. That just seems like a huge amount of skilled labor to do something like that. So if it gets mostly straightened out with pulling and hammering and using a reasonable amount of bondo to smooth it over would be ok with me.

Thanks for all the advice guys!
 
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Any body shop that's worth the tools they own should be able to dolly that out. Its no big task, as long as they know what they're doing.
Unfortunately, in this case, you're gonna have to go to the better, more expensive body shops.
High end is key here.
They will use a light skim of bondo to hide what is underneath, as it won't be perfect, but once the bondo is cured, wetsanded, and painted, you'll never know it was there.
 
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CryoSlash said:
Well even if you did get it pulled, would you really want the metal to be stretched and hamemred on, making it more malleable?
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Guess how the entire car is formed? you got it! The metal is stretched and "hammered" so to speak, it's pressed, but it's not like molten steel is poured into a mould, and a fender emerges.
 
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