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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: meegaveesix on 03 May 2007, 20:37:32
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....Today I managed to reverse my pride and joy into my garage door. Just finished rewiring the towbar electrics, and had replaced the nearside rear light which had a crack in it. Reversed it on to our driveway, the front wheels held for a moment on the kerb so I increased the throttle at just the wrong time. Before I had a chance to hit the breake, it rolled back, into the garage door, frame and just caught the wall.
I spent the next 3 hours rebuilding my garage door - it's seriously knackered. Nearly burst into tears when I saw the damage. Its scraped and dented the nearside quarter panel, damaged the bumper and killed the new light that was fitted.
Is anyone good with bodywork?
Has anyone had a worse day than me?
To top it all off, when I wrenched the garage door off so I could start fixing it, one if the blooody springs from the door pinged off and crashed on to my ankle, so now that is throbbing and ballooned up. Roll on the weekend.
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:'(
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I'm absolutely gutted TB. Still, look at the glass half full I guess.
Does anyone know how much it'd roughly cost to fully replace the nearside quarter?
I've managed to stroke out the worst of the dent apart from at the start of the rear of the arch. It just looks awful at the mo. I'd just taxed it at the weekend too!
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Sorry to hear that mate :'( But yes i have had a sh1t day with my LC rep trying to replace the clutch master cylinder >:(
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I feel for you that is terrible
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I'm absolutely gutted TB. Still, look at the glass half full I guess.
Does anyone know how much it'd roughly cost to fully replace the nearside quarter?
I've managed to stroke out the worst of the dent apart from at the start of the rear of the arch. It just looks awful at the mo. I'd just taxed it at the weekend too!
Sorry to say, but I think replacing the rear wings comes under the 'insurance write off' banner for prefacelifts :(
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Sorry to hear that mate :'( But yes i have had a sh1t day with my LC rep trying to replace the clutch master cylinder >:(
he he lovely job that one on a carlton!! NOT!!!!! done it a few times and think its the most hated job on there!!!
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Has anyone had a worse day than me?
I'm useless with repairs on anything and everything
i seem to recall bo bo having a worse day than you while trying to chase parked cars
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Sounds like a potential Ronnie fix to me..... Remember this one? (click to enlarge)
BEFORE:
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1483.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1483.jpg)
AFTER:
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1610.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1610.jpg)
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Thats cheating Ronnie. >:(
I can clearly see the car from the second pic in the corner of the first. All you've done is move camera positions :D
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Aha.... That was actually remarkable. I bought another 2.5TD estate, N-reg this time with exavctly the same colour! That was another gearbox change one. No, the damaged one was genuinly fixed by me. Had a number of other issues like running on chip fat that needed sorting tpoo, but a great car once done.
indeed here it is:
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1613.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1613.jpg)
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1612.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1612.jpg)
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1577.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1577.jpg)
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1576.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1576.jpg)
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Aha.... That was actually remarkable. I bought another 2.5TD estate, N-reg this time with exavctly the same colour! That was another gearbox change one. No, the damaged one was genuinly fixed by me. Had a number of other issues like running on chip fat that needed sorting tpoo, but a great car once done.
indeed here it is:
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1613.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1613.jpg)
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1612.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1612.jpg)
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1577.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1577.jpg)
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_1576.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_1576.jpg)
wow i remember that one :)
megaveesix terrible blow mate - can you post some piccies so we can see the damage and advise...
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I'll take some pics this morning. Not going to go into work today, my ankle is still painful this morning and I think I'd best go see the doc just in case.
May have surced a bumper with the help of Chris (ClarCE) but still in need of a near side outer boot light if anyone has one going cheap?
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rear light I might have in the shed. I will check this morning. If I have it is yours for the postage.
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Cheers Ronnie, much appreciated. :y
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Pics of the damage (I've replaced the tail light with the cracked one I had before because I've got to nip to Chris' later to pick up a bumper. Excuse my crap attempt at knocking the worst of it out......
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h189/vecv6sri/100_0120.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h189/vecv6sri/100_0119.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h189/vecv6sri/100_0118.jpg)
The worst of it is sitiing behind the rear arch, I can't get a hammer or piece of wood in there to be able to stroke it out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Oh, and if you look behind the first pic, you can vaguely see the mess I made of the garage door. Quite proud of myself though, the door opens and closes following lots of cursing and hammering. The white post was four foot inside the front of the garage, and the right hand side of the door was pretty much with it.
I never realised how much of a pain it is to hang garage doors - the springs are a nightmare!
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Would a suction cup puller not get the worst of the dent out? Got to be worth a try if you haven't already
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WHO'S THE DADDY?
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_0082.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_0082.jpg) <<< CLICK TO ENLARGE
Yours for the postage cost. PM me your address, I'll send it. You can pay me whenever. How's about that then......
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Have you had some dental work done there, Fin? ;D ;D
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Yes. Mainly on the front bumper of an Opel Rekord in Johannesburg in 1988.
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WHO'S THE DADDY?
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_0082.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_0082.jpg) <<< CLICK TO ENLARGE
Yours for the postage cost. PM me your address, I'll send it. You can pay me whenever. How's about that then......
CLICK HERE TO ENLARGE? I dont rather think so :o
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WHO'S THE DADDY?
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_0082.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_0082.jpg) <<< CLICK TO ENLARGE
Yours for the postage cost. PM me your address, I'll send it. You can pay me whenever. How's about that then......
OMG you look like dancing chicken in that shot ;D :o :y
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WHO'S THE DADDY?
(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/th_IMG_0082.jpg) (http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/ronaldmcburger/IMG_0082.jpg) <<< CLICK TO ENLARGE
Yours for the postage cost. PM me your address, I'll send it. You can pay me whenever. How's about that then......
OMG you look like dancing chicken in that shot ;D :o :y
A striking similarity..... ;D
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Many thanks to Chris who sold me the back bumper off of my old Omega on Friday :y And another set of thanks to Ronnie McBurger for finding me a spare light unit at the bottom of his shed.
Took the damaged bumper off this afternoon and started to strip it down seeing as the central part of the bumper is just a coloured skin. The orginal central part is salvageable with a little bit of filler, saves me having to respray a red one black. Also realised that the very bottom of the bumpers are colour coded. So have been to Halfrauds and got some filler primer and what i thought was the right colour black spary paint. However, in true Halfords style there was a different black in the slot on the shelf that I thought was Diamond Black. Some of the bottom of the bumper is now midnight black :-/. Shall be going back down there tomorrow to get the right colour so I can get cracking.
I also bought a set of dollys and body hammers off of Ebay combined with a slide hammer kit for a respectable £30. So for the next couple of weeks I'll be teaching myself bodywork - if it all goes wrong I'll have to bite the bullet and put it in a bodyshop, but half the fun of learning is making mistakes.
Big thank you to everyone on here that has offered advice and encouragement. Never had this much support on VXON.
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Many thanks to Chris who sold me the back bumper off of my old Omega on Friday :y And another set of thanks to Ronnie McBurger for finding me a spare light unit at the bottom of his shed.
Took the damaged bumper off this afternoon and started to strip it down seeing as the central part of the bumper is just a coloured skin. The orginal central part is salvageable with a little bit of filler, saves me having to respray a red one black. Also realised that the very bottom of the bumpers are colour coded. So have been to Halfrauds and got some filler primer and what i thought was the right colour black spary paint. However, in true Halfords style there was a different black in the slot on the shelf that I thought was Diamond Black. Some of the bottom of the bumper is now midnight black :-/. Shall be going back down there tomorrow to get the right colour so I can get cracking.
I also bought a set of dollys and body hammers off of Ebay combined with a slide hammer kit for a respectable £30. So for the next couple of weeks I'll be teaching myself bodywork - if it all goes wrong I'll have to bite the bullet and put it in a bodyshop, but half the fun of learning is making mistakes.
Big thank you to everyone on here that has offered advice and encouragement. Never had this much support on VXON.
I guess, wrt to bodywork (something that always scares me), is that as you say, if it all goes wrong, send it to bodyshop....
Good luck with it, and we want to see progress piccies :y
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Cheers TB, if nothing else, it'll add more tools to the tool pool ;D