Right now, my '84 is in the shop for a complete exterior face lift including
repair of dent in sliding door.  Estimated cost is $4K plus all new body
rubber from Ron at The Bus Depot.

John Lauterbach
Macon, GA

----- Original Message -----
From: "developtrust" <developtrust@COX.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: Dented passenger door, broken heart

> While shopping at Home depot one of their lumber carts rolled into my
> passenger door while I was parking and dented it. Not badly at all just
> under the door handle and below the gasoline refill port. Easy to fix I
> think but the auto body place wants $1,900 for the job. That seems like a
> rip off but Home depot is going to pay for it.
>
> I'm going to fix it myself and keep the money. I've done some body work
> before but my heart just sunk when I saw the damage. I'll have to drill
out
> the rivets on the window lock mechanism in order to access the dent to
pound
> it out and then rivet it back in or just bolt it back. Any advice?
>
> William