Welding is the strongest way to go but not always the best. Make sure to only try it if you have a lot of experience. Getting it too hot can easily warp the panels and look WAY worse than bondo. Once they are warped, you will never have a perfect looking panel and your paint will forever look wavy.


Another alternative is packing it with that liquid fiberglass crap. That **** is strong as hell. I have done some amazing jobs with it on my show cars. Prep the spots really good and fill away. Then finish up with a very thin layer of bondo. It won't crack if done right.

 

How do you "do it right" ? MAke sure there are no air bubbles in the fiberglass? Not apply the bondo too thick? details would be awesome, this is sounding like a good idea.

 

i wouldnt do it....i have seen it and it looks cool for about five minutes and then it looks really weird. just get s5 mouldings and paint them body color

 

and justget the urethane foam and then sand it down and get the shape alright and then lay glass over it and then bondo over that. simple and easy

 

It's just all about technique and practice. Don't just slop it in there. Prep the area real good by sanding off all the paint to bare metal and then making deep scratches in the metal to help it grab better. Then clean the metal real good with some paint thinner or something like that. Take the liquid fiberglass and pack it in there hard. Make sure you have correct amounts of hardner, don't want it drying to fast or slow. You can sand the fiberglass pretty good but it won't be perfect. Just follow up with a thin layer of bondo or puddy.


It's just all about practice. Practice on some old fenders you have lying around or get a piece of metal and bang some holes in it with a hammer. Then just practice filling and sanding to flatness.

 

just out of curiosity, why would u want to remove ur moldings, the car looks better with them on.