I am thinking about buying an s13 with a damaged quarter panel. If I buy it I will be fixing it myself. The dent is probably 2-3 inches deep and goes from the rear edge of the drivers side wheel well to the tip of the corner of the tail light. How would this have affected the car structurally? I was gonna use a slide hammer. What do yous guys think?

 

oooo.... I have the exact same dent except mine's on the passenger's side. I found that you can actually access the dent from the trunk after removing the carpet (I got a s13 fastback). so I am pretty confident that you can hammer it out yourself (then bondo and paint....... etc). However I didn't have have time to do it yet. Well keep me update. good luck.

 

wow. this seems to be common. my friend backed into an s10 and did the same exact thing , drivers side too. Im helping him repair it. well i should say doing it myself, he knows nothing about cars. ( what a waste of a 240) only way to get it out is to cut it out, and weld a new one in ( they are unibody) or beat it out, bondo it, and paint...maybe a widebody piece [thats what we are doing] so yea. wide body kits? best one i found is at extreme dimensions, the M-1 sport fenders

 

Extreme dimensions suck...cheap ****ty fitting knockoffs. Fenders may not be too bad, I'd still get another brand besides their brand.

 

haha yea, but hey its his car and its what he wants, hes got the stupid @$$ ricer attitude, it just has to look good. O well. you get what you pay for. as for me. Im getting a full C-West body kit, and have the S15 front end conversion done by Ride Revolutions. Just need to find a place to get quality , real Silvia HID headlights and the front conversion fenders. but yea ive heard bad things abotu ED. but like i said, cheapest ones ive found. But then again "cheap" is a curse word in the car world.