Desert Stallion
01-18-2006, 11:01 PM
Cliff Note's version, a while back we picked up an '89 Grand Am, 2.5L, it's your basic econo car but it serves its purpose.
A couple months after buying it, the significant other's older brother asked to borrow it for 'a couple weeks' after his Civic was totalled in a freeway accident where he got rearended by a 16 year old in his parents' car.
Anyway, he has the GA a week and gets it t-boned while pulling out of a parking lot, passenger side between the wheel well and door, pushes the B-pillar in and reshapes the wheel mount.
http://tinypic.com/m7uedx
I work miracles and the car's driving again in a week with a new axle beam assembly and some prying on the passenger side door to get it to open again.
So now it's 6 or 7 months later, he's just now gotten around to getting a new car for himself and gotten the GA back to us.
So, any hope of pulling that pillar back out myself? The car cost $500, and I'm NOT putting five grand into body work. I'm fair with body work, pulled out panels and smoothed/shaved emblems/door handles, but this is certainly more than I've tackled personally.
I'm thinking come-along anchored to something abreast the car and pulling the pillar out with various lengths of backing material pressing against the pillar on the inside. :D
A couple months after buying it, the significant other's older brother asked to borrow it for 'a couple weeks' after his Civic was totalled in a freeway accident where he got rearended by a 16 year old in his parents' car.
Anyway, he has the GA a week and gets it t-boned while pulling out of a parking lot, passenger side between the wheel well and door, pushes the B-pillar in and reshapes the wheel mount.
http://tinypic.com/m7uedx
I work miracles and the car's driving again in a week with a new axle beam assembly and some prying on the passenger side door to get it to open again.
So now it's 6 or 7 months later, he's just now gotten around to getting a new car for himself and gotten the GA back to us.
So, any hope of pulling that pillar back out myself? The car cost $500, and I'm NOT putting five grand into body work. I'm fair with body work, pulled out panels and smoothed/shaved emblems/door handles, but this is certainly more than I've tackled personally.
I'm thinking come-along anchored to something abreast the car and pulling the pillar out with various lengths of backing material pressing against the pillar on the inside. :D