I will take explicite pictures of that tomorrow, but basically, the top part
of the skin is overlaped, the new one over the remaining upper one, to
smooth the junction, microfiber is aplyed and some bondo (the question is
what kind of bondo... me, i don't like that English name?), if you use
proper product, putty, as i like to name it it a very good and strong and
nice finish, but, before there is bondo, microfiber, skins are glued
together... for life.. this glue is almost scary!!! this product is making
body work easy for everyone!

Only (in that case) the upper part of any skin (as we alway work on the
botom skin of our vans) is overlaped, each side are glued-welded like they
were when VW put the van together, the lower portion is also overlaped but
it was like that originally. Some may think that "overlaping" will show, but
it will not! 1mm or 1/16in is not enough, overlaping reinforce the skins,
now, it's just a question of "look", it's whre you need bondo-putty to blend
the 2 parts... i use Evercoat Spot lite:
http://www.evercoat.com/productDetail.aspx?pID=5

Expensive stuff, but men!!! so nice to work with... i basically use ONLY
Evercoat product...

Enough for now... me tired...

Later, Ben
http://www.benplace.com/

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This is something I was curious about too. I was looking at some tech info
on installing panels this way. I think it specifically directed that the
perimeter of the void was NOT to be flanged first. I don't understand how or
what you bond to without a flanged edge. If one simply laid the panel over
the edge, how would you possibly feather out the edge without it being a
noticeable bulge?