Ugh, help me with knowledge Oppo

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux) 04/22/2015 at 09:13 • Filed to: None

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Okay so my lovely lady is getting her WJ Jeep next weekend, so we are pumped to get rid of her POS WK. As it sat we just had a bunch of work done, and I had all the rest of the parts to finish the job to get the car up to 100% to put it on the market - book value being roughly a little higher than what she owed. Until this shit happened. Other night we were out in the rain storm in it and the wind ripped the door out of my hand and bent a hinge ever so slightly. Which was fine, I closed the door and said we will adjust it later. Opened fine, closed fine another time (with a slight kiss of door to metal). THEN she was at work and wasnt thinking and opened the door up in a hurry and bent the fender in. FAAAAAACK I didn’t want to spend ANY more money on it till it sold. So options are, new fender plus paint plus finding that stupid wide pin rope striping to match, which I have never seen. Bending the fender out, filler and touching up, or finding a boneyard fender already painted and also having to find that stupid stripe. Is there some way to remove that stripe in one piece? What would you do, I want it fixed before sale so we can get top dollar. I will say it again - the WK is a steaming pile of shit. The door didnt even get pulled forward that hard and the hinge bent. Come on WJ!

Here is a more detailed shot of the stripe

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:16

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Attempt to bend it out as well as you can and just leave it. Surely it’s not worth the cost/ time of trying to paint it and stuff.

505Turbeaux > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 04/22/2015 at 09:17

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yeah the paint is broken in 2 spots on it though. I am not sure, it is an awfully close margin between what we just paid to her loan company to get the title back and what we could reasonably sell it for

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:21

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How badly broken through is the paint? If it’s just the chipping on the edge of the door, get some metal primer and touch up paint then dab it on with a Q tip to hide it. If you dab it on thin enough you can hardly tell it’s there.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:22

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I have no expectation that that stripe will come off in one piece at all. You might be able to get the fender straightened most of the way as-is, but it probably would have to come off the car for that, and the paint... You might get just one end of the stripe lifted, enough to touch up the paint. Maybe.

505Turbeaux > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 04/22/2015 at 09:23

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Oh yeah I wish, one break is about an inch tall where the fender folded, and about .25 inch between the fender edge and the fold point - plus all of the chipping on the edge too

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/22/2015 at 09:25

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I am hoping so! The bottoms of both fenders are starting to rust too in true jeep fashion so they were going to get stripped and touched up anyhow, so this might be a good option

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:25

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Ah that’s a shame, is it hard to find a matching fender with those stripes? In my experience those stripes are an absolute bastard to get off without damaging the paint.

flying lap > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:26

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Ouch. Looks like at least a nickel, maybe more. Where do you live? Maaco would fix, on-the-cheap.

jariten1781 > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:27

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I don’t think, if it’s bent back to near ok, you’ll lose more on the sale than you would to fixing it to 100%. I’d bend it out as best I could, do quick touch up (cheap paint, maybe hand compound, but I wouldn’t go as far as to wet sand or break out the DA polished), then clean the crap out of the interior but leave a bit of dust on the outside to mask the wart.

505Turbeaux > flying lap 04/22/2015 at 09:27

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hmm interesting thought. I have a Maaco up the street. If we are selling anyways might be worth a shot to bring it by

505Turbeaux > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 04/22/2015 at 09:28

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I have never seen them on anything, I will have to look around and see. Ramblin said they might be able to lift one end of the stripes...maybe. I think worth a shot

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:32

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It is worth a try, although you’ll be lucky if it actually works. They tend to stiffen up and turn plasticky over time so instead of peeling off they chip off in little bits.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 09:33

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A pressure washer removed part of my stripe without even me trying.

505Turbeaux > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 04/22/2015 at 09:35

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I have pulled off enough pins in my time that this makes me fearful. Why did people stop doing hand pinstriping if they wanted to look like a baller? God damn plastic

BigBlock440 > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 10:12

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Junkyard fender would probably be the easiest/cheapest way to fix the dent and match the paint. Don’t have any suggestions for the stripe though.

Meatcoma > 505Turbeaux 04/22/2015 at 10:55

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Uh Oh better get Maaco!