Messed up my driver's side door
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Messed up my driver's side door
So I had to push my car into the garage a week or so ago and while pushing it backward to point it towards the garage door, I caught the driver's door on a dirt berm. This hyperextend the hinge and caught the edge of the fender. Now the door sits slightly further back in the frame and the fender is pretty well crinkled. I'm guessing the door fittment (or lack thereof) means the hinge is tweaked. Frome what I've read, getting the fenders off is kind of a pain in the ***, but I'm sure I can manage. What I'm more concerned about is the hinge. I feel like this is harder to fix than to replace, but finding a replacement hinge doesn't seem to be that easy either. What are my options here? Should I shell out the cash to take it to a bodyshop?
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I did this same thing to mine literally 25 years ago. I drove without a fender for a long time. Take heart, it can be fixed. A new hinge and a good body shop is what you need. The damage extends beyond just the hinge. You would never know now that happened to mine. Good luck.
So I had to push my car into the garage a week or so ago and while pushing it backward to point it towards the garage door, I caught the driver's door on a dirt berm. This hyperextend the hinge and caught the edge of the fender. Now the door sits slightly further back in the frame and the fender is pretty well crinkled. I'm guessing the door fittment (or lack thereof) means the hinge is tweaked. Frome what I've read, getting the fenders off is kind of a pain in the ***, but I'm sure I can manage. What I'm more concerned about is the hinge. I feel like this is harder to fix than to replace, but finding a replacement hinge doesn't seem to be that easy either. What are my options here? Should I shell out the cash to take it to a bodyshop?
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I did this same thing to mine literally 25 years ago. I drove without a fender for a long time. Take heart, it can be fixed. A new hinge and a good body shop is what you need. The damage extends beyond just the hinge. You would never know now that happened to mine. Good luck.
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So, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this fender off. There doesn't seem to be anything in the body shop repair manual about it, and some searching on here hasn't yeilded anything either. Maybe I'm just incompetent, but can someone give me some guidance?
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Bumper clips on to the front, prob better to just remove bumper as well. Some bolts under hood area / top of fender. One inside the door opening area, two underneath by rocker panel, and one or two connecting to lower valence area. There might be one hiding inside the headlight area too. I forget it's been awhile.
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I work at a body shop, you can tweak the hinges back. All you have to do is get a block of wood and open the door, put the block of wood Where the hinges are and close the door. When you feel the door catch on the wood, push on it a couple of times, that will tweak it back.do that one hinge at a time until you have a good gap.if you move it to far, all you do is open the door alocks the way and flex it a little more
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Bumper clips on to the front, prob better to just remove bumper as well. Some bolts under hood area / top of fender. One inside the door opening area, two underneath by rocker panel, and one or two connecting to lower valence area. There might be one hiding inside the headlight area too. I forget it's been awhile.
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