Need Body work advice

[GSEclipse620]

Alright. So a couple weeks ago some A$$hole backs/ opens door into me and pops in my side panel!! and just leaves! Well obviously you know where that leaves me. So i tryed popping it out from the inside but there are strucural peices giving the sides streangth that prevent me from being able to get to it and push it out. ( oh yeah, i had already tryed a dent puller (a couple of them, along with a series of plungers )and that didn't work because the crease in the dent gave it too much streanth.damn) anyways,,, so i took a malot and tapped around the creased egde of the metal and pushed the dent away to dent hell. I got the shape of the side back But now there are a hole bunch of wee li'l dents there. What would be the best way to attack this? I was thinking of sanding and bondo-ing. Think that would hold good or crack after a while? And are there any techniques while painting to make it so you can't see where i had to repaint. I would like to do this myself if possible cause paying for body work blows doggs for quarters. Any help is apprieciated!!

 

[96gsdsm]

Bondo would work fine, and is the easiest of the body repair materials to sand, just make sure it's mixed properly and not put on too thick or it will crack.

You want to scuff your stock paint with a 250 grit to rough it up a bit and promote adhesion

apply the bondo

sand as needed to surface level and flush the bondo up with the panel

feather in the edges with a 600 grit paper

mask off your door, and wet sand the rest of the stock paint with 800 grit to get rid of the "orange peel" look

primer

lightly sand the primer with 320 grit

paint

If there still is an orange peel look to the paint you could carefully wet sand with 1000 grit paper untill it's gone.

 

[dreamwalker]

Well said 96gsdsm. I was also thinking if he wanted to he could hot blend the site rather then paiting the entire door. But, painting the entire door would look nicer if you dont know how to hot blend. If you did know how to hot blend you could paint just that spot and it would look fine. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

 

[96gsdsm]

Yes, I agree with hot blending, but I just assumed that GSeclipse620 didn't know how / didn't have the skill.... mainly because I dont

 

[Galaxy]

Why don't you enlighten us on hotblending dreamwalker? This is the first I've heard of that technique since I started paying attention to paint and body stuff about a month ago.

 

[dreamwalker]

Well, I will try to explain it. I was a painters helper for awhile. So I will do my best. Basically when you all over paint a car its a smooth even coat. But when you hot blend you go from a light coat to an even coat over the spot being painted to a light coat again. that way the spot being painted gets the even coat but the area around it only gets lights coats which can be blended in during the wet sand stage. i will try to draw a picture of how you set this up. Basically tape up all the surrounding area except for a 1 foot area on either side. tape that area but you want the paper to come up off the car sort of like a tunnel. so you have a tunnel facing the spot, the spot and then another tunnel facing the spot. These tunnels help you get a light coat while you paint the spot evenly. Good luck. I hope that kind of explained it. i will try to draw a diagram sometime today and post it. If you have any other questions. Please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them.