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Old 09-24-2008, 01:56 AM
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If, say, a branch or a ladder falls on the top of your 944 and dents it up around the sunroof, can you replace that metal somehow?
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ouch, I have one on mine but it's not THAT big; I don't know; can the headliner be removed and the dents be pushed out? then some bondo or something and repaint?
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If you can get at the back of the metal i bet our PDR guy could get most of that out. Or if you want to spend some money i Promise that Paragon Collision in N Raleigh could make it look etter than new... I have seen AMAZING work from them...

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Mark you may have noticed I have a (much smaller) dent like this on my car, but the picture above isn't alpine white...

That being said maybe this dent will show up in your shop sometime for you to have a look at.
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I have a very small dent in my roof between the sunroof opening and the windscreen. A PDR guy looked at it and figured he would be able to remove the dent if I wanted. Mine is alpine white as well so the dent isn't noticable unless I point it out. I plan on sometime this winter replacing the entire roof with a fiberglass sheet and losing the sunroof completely so I never bothered to have the dent fixed. I'm deleting my sunroof because I get tired of changing the white tape I use to hold it down every couple weeks. Without the tape, it pops open at 130 mph. Last time I redid the latches it popped open at about 150mph and lemme tell you...that HURT. My ears weren't right for about a month after....err uhh babbling...anyway back to your dent...

...If yours is similar it should come out just fine.



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