What is the worst body work you've seen or done?

[bucket]

No pics but it DID happen years ago.

A co-workers son had an accident that caved in the driver's side door. He asked me to help him repair it. I pulled the dent as well as I could (all he had was a dent puller, not wanting to disassemble inside door to do it right, no dollies, no body hammers) and then I told him it would make the bondo too thick unless we did it right. He only cared that it looked good until he could find a new door.

Soooo, I pulled dent as well as I could and caked on the bondo for him. When I sanded it, it needed a couple more coats. He said he wanted to finish it. I left. He painted over it "as-is" and came to work next day saying I did the body work and that's why it looked like that! BS!

That was the LAST time I ever did a repair without doing it the way I knew it should be done and NEVER left a repair without finishing it. Lesson: NEVER half-a$$ a repair even if the owner wants to. Makes you look bad. I should have known better.

Luckily, when people at work asked me about it and I explained what happened they knew my reputation as being truthful and his as being less than a stand-up guy. Obviously, I set myself up but I thought he would finish it then claim credit for the job but guess he got lazy and decided to dump the blame on me. I figure I had that one coming for not insisting to fix it the right way or not at all. Let this be a lesson to you if someone asks you to do a "temporary" repair.

I once did a repair that I'm still ashamed of to this day. It was a regular customer with a '96 Firebird, he was always crashing the darn thing. One of the times, it got blasted in the driver door, smashing the rocker panel in pretty good too. His insurance had already canceled his policy, so my boss said we could patch it back together for him and he could just pay the bill in increments. Well that meant that the car got a used door and some pull time on the rocker, that was it. I really really wanted to put a rocker on the car, but my boss insisted that I just mud it over after I pulled it. The rocker had been mangled mind you.

I ended up drilling countless 1/8 inch holes in the area that was going to need a THICK coat of mud, then ran a #8 panhead screw into each hole. Using a straight edge as a guide, I ran all the screws in just far enough that the they would be about 3/16 inch below the surface once it was sanded smooth. Then proceeded to apply one hell of a thick coat of mud, being sure to force it in around all of the screws.

The car looked great when it left the shop. I really hope nobody ever discovered that repair.

 

[80BrownK10]

No, but I sort of wish I was, did you see his latest video on "body work"?

I do have my own crappy ass channel though:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUivNPw6v-xeEG7GY8RpiIsw

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Yea, I did!! Haha. That's why I posted what I did.

 

[Snoots]

When I look in the mirror.

 

[jjester6000]

Look at this guys expert repair, I saw this in the parking lot at work.

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[Donald]

The worst I've seen was a guy I know had a C 20 . The front fender back by the door had a very big rust hole at least 4" or 5 " . He filled it with drywall mud smoothed it out through some primer on it and sold it to a friend .

 

[jjester6000]

The worst I've seen was a guy I know had a C 20 . The front fender back by the door had a very big rust hole at least 4" or 5 " . He filled it with drywall mud smoothed it out through some primer on it and sold it to a friend .

Wouldn't that just fall at the first sight of rain.

 

[jjester6000]

This is my co-workers dodge caravan (or what's left of one).

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(notice the expandafoam)

We are about to do a HackNPack repair job on it with Rivets, Sheet metal, and some bedliner.

 

[gotyourgoat]

This is my co-workers dodge caravan (or what's left of one).

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(notice the expandafoam)

We are about to do a HackNPack repair job on it with Rivets, Sheet metal, and some bedliner.

There's no fixing that. Enjoy being able to drive it instead of having to scrap it because it doesn't pass inspection.

 

[jjester6000]

There's no fixing that. Enjoy being able to drive it instead of having to scrap it because it doesn't pass inspection.

Well, there is no inspection in Illinois, so he could drive it until it literially splits in half.

But in all seriousness, I am going to brace up the body by welding some angle iron where the jack rail was.

We don't want to spend a cent on this repair (the van doesn't deserve anything more).

I found some corrugated sheet metal in a ditch, and plan to build new door bottoms out of it.

We may also steal the downspout off somebody's house in order to build rocker panels.

It looks like a lot of fun to us.

 

[dvdswan]

My buddy had a Honda del Sol that he bought years ago. Apparently it was drifted into a guardrail (best guess). RR 1/4 was showing 1" of tire and the 1/4 was pushed in 2" with bondo building it up. After finding this we replaced the RR 1/4 completely. Then repainted the car.

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[80BrownK10]

I found some corrugated sheet metal in a ditch, and plan to build new door bottoms out of it.

hahaha

 

[jjester6000]

We decided to spruce the van up a bit yesterday.

Did not really fix any holes yet, but we did grind down any loose rust/paint, and sprayed some rusty metal primer on it.

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(Also added a racing stripe)

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I also buffed where the clear coat had pealed with some boiled linseed oil.

We're going to do all the rust repair this weekend.

 

[Doppleganger]

Dodge has always had garbage steel.....worse than the early Honduhs. Couldn't give me one. I've seen 5 yr old trucks around here with holes in the bumpers you could put your hand in.

When I was a kid my dad and I were at the dealership (he had a Golden Eagle pickup at the time he had bought new there - unloaded it 2 yrs later because the bed was rotting so bad). The truck arrived loaded with new Cordoba's. The rims were all rusted - looked like they had bug bombed Dutch Boy primer on them at assembly. I mentioned it to the salesmen and he said 'thats nothing - many times the fender edges are bubbled and we have to fix them before they go on the lot..' WTF?

 

[idahovette]

Dodge has always had garbage steel.....worse than the early Honduhs. Couldn't give me one. I've seen 5 yr old trucks around here with holes in the bumpers you could put your hand in.

When I was a kid my dad and I were at the dealership (he had a Golden Eagle pickup at the time he had bought new there - unloaded it 2 yrs later because the bed was rotting so bad). The truck arrived loaded with new Cordoba's. The rims were all rusted - looked like they had bug bombed Dutch Boy primer on them at assembly. I mentioned it to the salesmen and he said 'thats nothing - many times the fender edges are bubbled and we have to fix them before they go on the lot..' WTF?

"Quality Control" Chris!!

 

[jjester6000]

Dodge has always had garbage steel.....worse than the early Honduhs. Couldn't give me one. I've seen 5 yr old trucks around here with holes in the bumpers you could put your hand in.

When I was a kid my dad and I were at the dealership (he had a Golden Eagle pickup at the time he had bought new there - unloaded it 2 yrs later because the bed was rotting so bad). The truck arrived loaded with new Cordoba's. The rims were all rusted - looked like they had bug bombed Dutch Boy primer on them at assembly. I mentioned it to the salesmen and he said 'thats nothing - many times the fender edges are bubbled and we have to fix them before they go on the lot..' WTF?

Rust is standard equipment on most chrysler products.