Bilal928S4

Is the rear quarter panel above the rub strip accessible from the inside or from the wheel well?
I have some dings and am wondering if I can get a ding wizard or similar company to take them out or is it double walled?
90 S4
Bilal

Ducman82

don't think its double walled, but the fender skin sits over the interior wall..... so no direct access from inside. thats how it is on my 81 any who....

928 at last

In my experience, no access from inside.
Dent guys won't touch our cars.

Ducman82

steel rear quarters... to hard i think.

JHowell37

It's single walled and the entire backside of the quarter panel can be accessed from the wheel well.

M. Requin

True. The gas filler side is a bit more of a pain, but it is accessible. Been there, worked on that.

KLVA

Me too........ Best to go ahead and remove all the wheel well stuff and just take a look to see if you can 'tap on' the indentation very carefully from the inside...if you do not have to scrape all of the rubberized insulation away then that would be better......using a dent rocker tool to try and lightly 'tap' the indents is the 1st thing to try...I agree that the Dent Wizard guys wil prolly not have any luck with it...you'll see what I am talking about when you get in there....

Jadz928

Guys, you need to get some coffee...

PDR guys works miracles! LINK

Perl's before and after:





Like Martin and Jay says, quite a bit of access.

Also, instead of first tapping on the dent, tap around the dent to stress-relieve the impact.
Think of the dent as a wave (dropping a pebble in the water). You want to work from the outer waves, inward.
At least that is what my PDR guy told me as I watch him work for a couple hours.

Bilal928S4

Jim,
That was below the rub strip location, mine is above the rub strip.
Bilal

Jerry Feather

Which side is the dent on? If it is on the left side, like Bilal's dent, you have access all the way up to the bottom of the window. If it is on the other side there is a plastic cannister-like thing that I think is a charcoal devise to collect fuel vapors, all along the very upper inside of the right rear wheel well. Even there you have quite a bit of access above the wheel arch opening quite a ways foreward, to the door jam, and aft to the fuel tank which is pretty close to the tire on the right. If you want pictures, I'll go take a couple after a while.

Jerry Feather

Jerry Feather

P.S. The quarter panel is not double walled. JF

928 at last

I stand corrected......this is what I get for listening to other people.
Now I've got to get in there and see what can be done..