Nasty dent
-
- Posts: 306
- Joined: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:53 pm
- Member's Photo Album: http://www.delica.ca/Photos/
- Vehicle: '92 L300 Super Duper Exceed
- Location: Vancouver
- Location: Vancouver
Nasty dent
It was a nasty dent on the back hatch. I managed to get most of it out. But now I'm left with small ripples and I can't seem to get in there and make it nice. I tried posting pictures, but I am having trouble with the file size (because I am on my iPhone?). Has anyone got any tips on either body work or picture posting?
- thedjjack
- Posts: 2025
- Joined: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:13 am
- Member's Photo Album: http://www.delica.ca/forum/ucp.php?i=164
- Vehicle: 1989 L300 HITOP!!
- Location: Port McNeill
- Location: Port McNeill
- Contact:
Re: Nasty dent
do bother fixing wait for same colour l300 being parted....
pictures have to be tiny to post on here....
pictures have to be tiny to post on here....
-
- Posts: 306
- Joined: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:53 pm
- Member's Photo Album: http://www.delica.ca/Photos/
- Vehicle: '92 L300 Super Duper Exceed
- Location: Vancouver
- Location: Vancouver
Re: Nasty dent
Yeah, that's kinda what I'm thinking, too.thedjjack wrote:do bother fixing wait for same colour l300 being parted....
-
- Posts: 647
- Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:29 pm
- Member's Photo Album: http://www.delica.ca/Photos/
- Vehicle: delica
- Location: Victoria
Re: Nasty dent
There's a good feeling to be had doing the bodywork yourself though. Not too hard to smooth with Bondo and a longboard, and easy enough to get paint made to match. The biggest issue really is that your hatch paint will look.so much newer than anything else, so them you feel compelled to paint the whole thing. When I ever sell mine I'll shoot a new paint job and it'll look like new again.
My new novel A Dark and Promised Land has just been released by Dundurn Press. "On the eve of war he is compelled to reclaim her love, setting himself against his people amid a conflict that will form a nation." http://www.darkpromisedland.com/
- thedjjack
- Posts: 2025
- Joined: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:13 am
- Member's Photo Album: http://www.delica.ca/forum/ucp.php?i=164
- Vehicle: 1989 L300 HITOP!!
- Location: Port McNeill
- Location: Port McNeill
- Contact:
Re: Nasty dent
shooting paint is so messy...here is my last paint job....tremclad + foam rollers...
(funny note on the windshield only available from 1 company in the USA (who gets them from India) and it shipped and imported in to Canada cost hundreds less than dealers sale L400 windshield for???)
(Moderators please fix the site so larger images can be loaded (even if the posting auto sizes them) your settings are so small you actually have to edit them to make them that small (windows auto sizer is bigger)....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
(funny note on the windshield only available from 1 company in the USA (who gets them from India) and it shipped and imported in to Canada cost hundreds less than dealers sale L400 windshield for???)
(Moderators please fix the site so larger images can be loaded (even if the posting auto sizes them) your settings are so small you actually have to edit them to make them that small (windows auto sizer is bigger)....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
-
- Posts: 647
- Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:29 pm
- Member's Photo Album: http://www.delica.ca/Photos/
- Vehicle: delica
- Location: Victoria
Re: Nasty dent
Brush and roller and tremclad can work -I've done it too-but to get a really nice finish means a lot of wet sanding and elbow grease.
My new novel A Dark and Promised Land has just been released by Dundurn Press. "On the eve of war he is compelled to reclaim her love, setting himself against his people amid a conflict that will form a nation." http://www.darkpromisedland.com/