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Subject:Re: @#$%! Trees!
From:Neil N
Date:Mon, 16 May 2016 13:01:12 -0700

That sucks. Sorry to hear of damage.

I"m sure the collective "we" can kind of see what you mean in terms
of body damage but a pic of damage would help when time permits.

My guess is that at very least, you're looking at pulling the dent(s) out.
Some say a tool like this is great for that

http://www.eastwood.com/stud-welder-dent-pulling-system.html

But if you have a compound set of dents at or near the headlight, that will
be tricky.

I've used Goop to repair the plastic grill but it sounds like your
grill is quite damaged.

Neil.

On 5/16/16, Tyler Hardison <tyler@seraph-net.net> wrote:

> I was able to almost stop but not quite.. Took out the grille and passenger
> side headlight. Also put a dent in the passenger side to the left of where
> the edge of the grill was.
>
> The question I have is..
>
> Does anyone have a headlight and grille they can part with until I can
> afford the South African upgrade in a month or two?
>
> Also, anyone have experience pulling a dent out like this? How did you do
> it?
>
> --t
>

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Neil n

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