Body damage info

[JoDan]

Well, I lost out on my chance to get my rust free festiva yesterday so I'm wanting to get this blue LX looking purty but it has some body damage on rear quarter panel and I was wondering if anyone with knowledge on body work could help me out and see if this is repairable or I'm going to have to break out the welder. It has some rust on it also but that ain't a problem for me.







Sorry if the pics aren't the greatest its nighttime, so if you need some more detail pics I could take some tomorrow in daylight if need be.

[wybnrml]

It looks like you could get it out from the inside of the car, but you would have to work on that bodyline from the outsideome. But I think you could hammer and dolly it pretty straight without to many problems.

[JoDan]

K you might need to explain that to me a lil more since I'm pretty much a "noob" when it comes to body work lol

[wybnrml]

You can get some Body Hammers and Dollys at Harbor Freight or Northern Tool if you don't already have any. But if you took out the interior panels you could get to the back of the dent and knock it out, then you use the Dolly to help smooth it out, what you do with the dolly is you hold it against the metal from the outside of the car then you tap the dent from inside with the hammer, might take two people for that. But right above the body line you would have to tap that dent back in from the outside of the car.

[darrenryall]

The dent doesn't look that bad.. should be repairable with a bit of elbow grease.

[MONSOON]

Only problem I see are the creases. You wont get those out. But you should be able to get it all to a point where youll need minimal filler.

[ghosthunter242]

your 1/4 panel is way better than mine was.
my friend brought the hammer dolly kit over and what worked best was seriously a 2x4 through the access panels in the back seat area. the metal is so thin you can actually push most of it out. i have pics on the post 'new skin on my festiva' the before pics of the rear look way better than it really was. any bump in the road and i was literally cutting the back tire up.. i knocked the high spots down with a mallet and then massaged them into place with the 2x4. got loads more leverage.
if you get your hands on a slide hammer, be careful, i thought i broke my hand trying to get the rear panel pushed out.
best of luck.

[WmWatt]

Figure out how the metal was pushed in and push back out as if you were redoing the accident in reverse.