Fixing FTO rear left 1/4 panel - progress

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Fixing FTO rear left 1/4 panel - progress

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Bloody mongrels, woke me up at 2:30 this morning with the landrover alarm going off.
They didn't get anything but in their haste to get away they hit the FTO on the rear left quarter panel, it looks pretty bad.
I'll get some pics on soon when I either shrink them to fit in the upload or stick them on imgur or something.
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f**king c**nts. Any chance you'll be able to find them out?
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It's a long shot, but we think they were in a silver/gold Honda SUV and this is a small town so i'm hopeful that i'll spot the car at some stage.
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sh*t! Feeling for you Rob, that's a hit. Insurance?
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Stupid I know but not insured, I rarely drive the car up here (I work from home).
(Rego'd of course)

I've got the cctv up and working now.
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Had a quote from the panel shop, $4250
$2600 of that is labour (mainly unpicking the 1/4 panel I think)

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Sundries make up the rest, and gst.


Think i'll have a go with a plunger and a hammer and get some practice in with body filler for the last bit.
Anyone have good tips?
I've seen videos on the interweb making it look easy to remove dents, but I doubt it is.
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f**k man they hit the worst part to fix too that's literally the worst spot to fix
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How's it hit so high up, 4WD?
We thought it was a Honda CRV but now not so sure as the front and rear bars of them aren't that high are they and my rear bar has survived.
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Bought myself a slide hammer/dent puller, time to turn the rear end into a sieve.
Dent-Ding didn't work, that was a long shot (I bought that a couple of months back to tackle some smaller dents)
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Made some progress with a bar from inside the boot and a slide hammer on the outside, made quite a mess and I sort of wish i'd never started with the slide hammer but that crease was really bad before and it had to be pulled. I've managed to get some shape back and then started on the filler, which I've used up so no more work on the car for today.

Before I started to fix it:
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Here's where i'm up to:
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It's really rough but the shape is almost there, I've reinforced it with ally mesh as a bridge which I bent to match the profile on Rowans FTO, it helped).
After I've finished with the filler should I use some putty stuff or something else, or sand it and then use putty?
I'm finding that the filler is setting really quickly and not giving me much time to work with it, probably due to the heat up here.

Oh and before anyone asks - the aerial is jammed in due to the impact and I couldn't remove it.
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After some more filling and sanding, still more to do of course but it's getting there and i'm happy with how it's turning out.
I would have preferred a professional job on it but this has cost me considerably less than 4K, just filler and sand paper so far.
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I can now see where I've got to put the extra work in after blocking it, i.e. more filler and then re-blocking.
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Great work Rob. Props for tackling it yourself. I hope somehow you can catch the bastards who did it and recoup costs somehow.
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If he does there'll be no evidence of the damage left. :lol:
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Vectose wrote:If he does there'll be no evidence of the damage left. :lol:
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Hey, pictures at least!
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Progress from the weekend.
Not quite ready for paint yet but I think I've done enough with filler.
Next up will be a high build spray putty/primer, i'm hoping this will help smooth it out as I think if I sprayed it now it would look very rippled. This is all new to me by the way so don't really know what i'm doing, just putting in the hours.

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Re: Fixing FTO rear left 1/4 panel - progress

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Like to see someone having a go. Personally i would have removed the bar and cut the antennae off to make blocking easier.
Generally with something that big lots of incremental slide hammering from the outside working toward the center is the go. Can finish up with a bit of heat shrinking and dolly work. But you are beyond that now.
What grade paper are you knocking that filler back with? I would be smashing it with 36 grit and get the general shape of the panel. Finish off with a flyweight filler. If you are going to use a spray putty at least go 2k, acrylic will just cause issues down the track.
I would be looking at getting it as close to perfect without putty and just using a 2k hi fill primer, got enough heavy fill in it already.
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