

| Subject: | Re: @#$%! Trees! |
| Date: | Tue, 17 May 2016 01:47:33 -0400 |
In a message dated 5/16/2016 4:35:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jim.felder@GMAIL.COM writes: Also your dent looks like a piece of cake to fix. You can get a harbor freight slide puller, drill it pull it and Bondo it you be surprised how easy that is. Jim NOOOO...... come on this isnt 1980... please do not drill holes in the van to use a slide puller..i have seen MANY vehicles that have RUSTED OUT because people have done this back in the day... i had a '90 vanagon that someone did this to the sliding door ...they drillled holes and used a slide puller and then bondo'd it... several years later the bondo - which is NOT waterproof like fiberglass is- will bubble out around each hole that was drilled in the sheetmetal... its looks like a boat hull that develops blisters... do NOT drill holes in your van to pull out dents!! do it the right way and weld washers or nuts onto the dent in the crease, and then pull them out with a slide puller.. if you dont have a welder, any bodyshop will weld a few washers onto the damaged area for you.. then you can pull it out yourself and fill it...i recommend fiberglass based fillers.... not a fan of bondo.
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