I had recently bought this car about 2 or so weeks ago, this is my new project that brought me back into Honda. So far I've sanded the car to its existing primer, now in these two pictures. You can see slight body damage, its not deep at all to be honest. I myself don't have the time to do the body repair. But a body shop my friend used to work at, said they will do it for $800 for the complete body repair, primer to the fixed area, and new side moldings as well. What do you guys think? TIA!




Once that gets done I can finally finish up the car, and get wheels, lowered then engine swap.

 

i wouldnt pay 800 dollars to fix that. if i was you, i'd just sand it down to bare metal and fill that **** in with bondo haha

 

i would pay it, thats not tooooo bad of a price, besides you cant just fill dents in with filler and be done, the dent has to be pounded out and use filler to smooth it out. try other body shops also, you might get a better price. good luck

 

take out the interior panels...
and use a hammer and dolly to hammer it out

after you get it out..fill it with some bondo
sand the bondo with 80 grit to shape it...


aint that hard...
i do it in class all the time..

and i learn on my own since my teacher hardly knows english..lol

 

you guys wouldn't use a dent puller?

 

nawww man why use a dent puller when you can just wack it from behind. Ive never worked on a teg but it looks like you can probally get in there with a dolly and just pop that back out.well atleast shape it out a bit

 

no no no, dont fill that with bondo. pull the interior, hammer and dolley it out. you should be able to get that out pretty far and stretch the metal in that quarter a little bit, you're going to be taking it out then hammering it back in until its as smoth as you can get it, then you can skim coat it with evercoat rage and sand that smooth. you dont want to use alot of plastic on it, you goal should be to get to a point where you barley need to use any filler at all.

 

Thanks guys , I was thinking of doing the dolly as well and hammering it out, do a few coats of filler, and sand it to shape, $800 might seem much, not sure, but there is a body shop down my street i might check that out.

 

$800 sounds pretty cheap if they are known to do a good job. That's alot of work especially if you've never done it before. And yeah, you could hammer and dolly it out yadda yadda, but If you can't fix it, it might cost more to undo what you do to it. Just weigh your options and figure out what's important. If your friend is a real friend, he'll know the painter and hook you with with some paint for the trunk and roof.

 

Thanks , the owner of the body shop is well aware that Im friends with his old co-worker and gave me a good price, and their work is amazing from what I've seen in person. They work mainly on high end vehicles. When I go to the shop, I see nothing but european cars, bmw 5, 7 series etc, mercedes s-class sl class etc, porsches etc. Makes my car look like a cereal box toy, when I bring my car there . I hope to get the body work done soon, so I can finally finish up the car.