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Old 08-14-2006, 12:38 AM   #1
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So, I screwed up a door...what are my options?

Story in a nutshell is I was backing an '01 Hyundai Accent out of the garage and left the door cracked open (being lazy). Of course, the door swung open a bit and ended up clipping the rail for my garage door track at a couple miles an hour in reverse. I ended up bending the top of the door frame where the window rolls up and down through. It being Sunday, the only body shop in town is closed today. And apparently tomorrow as well.

Pics of the door are http://www.boomspeed.com/greshmahg/door1.JPG (door is closed) and http://www.boomspeed.com/greshmahg/door2.JPG (door open). Sorry for slow load times, using a buddy's hosting service.

My question is this, as an automotive neophyte. Can this just be hammered out back into shape or do I need to purchase a whole new door? I'm not terribly concerned with aesthetics from the cracked rubber on the exterior. The car is 5 years old and about to get traded in anyways. I am, however, on something of a budget and 7 or 8 hundred dollars for something as silly as this would put a crimp in me, especially since I think my deductible is higher than the total cost of that prospect. A smaller figure to give it to a body shop and have them hammer it out? That I can hang with.
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Old 08-17-2006, 11:50 PM   #2
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Re: So, I screwed up a door...what are my options?

i don't know if it's possible to form it back into shape, but it would have to be pressed slowly, not hammered.

at best go and find a scrapyard/stolen-recovery place and try to find a new door. i dont think you could re-form the damaged door.
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