Quarter Panel Replacement

Save Your Car from an Ugly Future, Change Your Quarter Panel Now

A rusted quarter panel can act as cancer for your car. It eats away all the metal until you change or replace it. Quarter panel needs to be changed if it is damaged or rusted or corroded because there is no way to get rid of this situation. Here are some tips that may be followed while changing or replacing the control panel of your car. But it is suggested that you always seek advice of a skilled mechanic and keep a user manual by your side before starting the work.

What All Things Are Needed

Here is a list of all the necessary equipments required to replace a damaged quarter panel with a brand new one. But it is recommended that you cross check all these equipments with your user manual so that you do not miss out any.

• Sheet metal snippers.
• Vice grips and pliers
• Screw drivers and sheet metal screws
• Bondo body fillers
• Epoxy and metal fillers
• JB Welder
• Glazing spot putty compound
• High build automotive primer
• Rust treatment spray
• Dollies and body hammers
• Safety gloves
• MIG welder
• safety mask
• Safety glasses
• Wire brush and drill machine
• Dust face Mask

Second stage

• Check out the damaged area carefully.
• Think before cutting any extra metal from car so that you do not cut metal from the area other than the damaged one.
• Now get ready with your gloves and do not forget to wear the apron and safety glasses along with the face mask.
• Now take out the metal snipper or the cutting grinder and smoothly cut the edges of the metal.
• Now clean the metal using sand paper or rust scuffer pad. Wire brush can also be used for cleaning the metal piece.
• Now spray some Rust Treatment Spray on the metal pieces.
• Now use your dollies and hammers to shape your metal.
• Clean all the screws and bolts that you removed from the while cutting the metal and clean them properly so that there is no chance of getting the rust again.
• Then apply rust treatment spray on all the screws.
• Now take out all the welding related equipments and place them nearby.
• After doing all the cleaning work, now is the time to do the welding.
• Use vice grips or pliers to hold the metal piece while welding it.
• After that the gaps needs to be filled using metal from a tube and then you can grind all the high spots. JB Weld is used to fill small holes that are in the metal.
• Do not discard any left out metal as it may be used some time later.
• Now when the welding and cleaning is done, you can make use of Bondo body filler, to give final touch to the work.
• Bondo body filler can help in covering the welding marks.
• Since the Bondo filler is hard it may leave marks on the surface of the car, so you may always use a grit sandpaper to lighten it.
• Then finally apply the high build primer as a final touch and see that your car has evolved as a brand new vehicle.