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rear end repairs

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:10 pm
by 246gts
A couple of months ago I wrote about accident damage to rear end of my daughter's 2 door,( see OUCH!!!!)
I have stripped off the bumper, tow bar and rear wing and can now see that damage has been done to the boot floor where the bumper mounts go into floor and where the central fixing of tow bar was fixed.
Luckily the car was in good rust free condition and the damage seems to have stopped rearward of the rear spring fixing and behind the tank opening but has bent the rearmost section of the inner wing because of the two bolts fixing the bumper iron to the bottom of rear wing
My question is, is it better to try to jack out the damage or as there appear to be replacement panels would it be better to cut out the damaged floor sections, strighten out the inner wing and then weld in replacement rear boot floor and boot lid bottom closure panel?
I will try to post pictures in next few days
While I am on the subject can I just say thanks to Flying for his excellent postings.
Dave

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:54 pm
by flying
sorry to hear about your daughters misfortune.....i went and had a look at the pictures and from what i saw you would be better off replacing the back boot floor pan and rear boot lid bottom closure panel than trying to recover the panels....for the amount of time that would take you could have the new panels in by then....i got those panels out and in a day ....thank you for your comment on my posting...i hope its to some use to help in the repacement of the panels