I scratched up the side skirt on the passenger side. There are multiple white lines. A small part of actually dented in. What can I do to fix it up?

 

you can use touch up paint on the scratches, your assed out on the dent though.

 

If it's JUST the sideskirt, take it off and get it painted if its so bad touch up paint wont work. If its dented you're screwed because thats plastic. You'll have to buy another side skirt... and I don't know that you can buy just one side.

 

He could fiberglass it, or get someone to do it.

 

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yup

 

Thanks for the suggestions.

Can the side skirt alone be taken off? Isn't it like attached to the whole panel?

As for the fiberglass suggestion, how much would that cost?

 

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Can the side skirt alone be taken off? Isn't it like attached to the whole panel?

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If you really have a side skirt, then yes it can be taken off easily. Can you post a picture? That way, I can see if you actually have a side skirt, or if you are mistakenly calling the rocker, a side skirt.

If you indeed, do have a side skirt, it is either simply attached by double stick tape, or a few screws. Either way, it is very easy to take it off.

I'm not sure how much it would cost. If you knew how to do it yourself, it could be under $50 (including all glasswork, resprayed, and re-installed). I can't really give you much more of a ballpark, without seeing the damage. But being that you don't know how to do it, you will need to take it to a shop for an estimate. Expect a shop to charge you at least double (if they are nice), to do the fiberglass work. I'm not sure if it'd be more cost effective for a shop to fiberglass it, or to just have them put a whole new side skirt or your car.

Ask them for an estimate for both options.

Again, please post pics of the damage, so I can help you more.

 

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I am not sure Fiberglassing would work. These shirts are made from molded injected plastic. They are somewhat flexable. Since Fiberglass is much stiffer, I would think fiberglass would crack where it bonds to the plastic, when under stress (cornering, high speed). I could be completely wrong, I have never done fiberglass on plastic. However, I did notice fiberglass is pretty stiff when making sub-woofer enclosures.

 

mighty putty for the dent.
mold it, sand it, paint it.
https://www.mightyputty.com/spark/index.php?ai=8

 

Is the sideskirt made of the same stuff as the front lip? if so, i put fixed a front lip with bondo and it looks good haha.

 

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I am not sure Fiberglassing would work. These shirts are made from molded injected plastic. They are somewhat flexable. Since Fiberglass is much stiffer, I would think fiberglass would crack where it bonds to the plastic, when under stress (cornering, high speed). I could be completely wrong, I have never done fiberglass on plastic. However, I did notice fiberglass is pretty stiff when making sub-woofer enclosures.

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Really depends how thick you make it. When you make a sub enclosure, you probably use a lot of mesh and resin. A side skirt isn't really subjected to too much stress from the actual car. Unless there was direct force applied to it, I don't foresee it cracking. My brother and I fixed the front bumper on his GF's saturn with fiberglass, about 8 months ago. She is a terrible driver and it's already the third bumper on the car, and she's hit stuff with it, since we fixed it, and our repair job held up very nicely.