Hello,
1998 sl2, has anyone repaired cracks on the body?
Any recommended adhesives or fiberglass type of materials to make a lasting repair?
Thanks

 

Why not bolt on a new fender .... what could it take a couple hours at most for a blind on armed man.

 

Why yes I could bolt on a new fender,
however what i was looking to do is repair some damage that has occured to the rt frt fender, door, and rear 1/4 pnl.
Small cracks that do not warrant replacement. IMHO
thanks , but im looking to repair if this is possible.
Thank-you for the reply though.

 

They do make a two part adhesive for these plastic panels that works very well. You will still need to access the back side to do it properly.

 

Hey thanks, I will try an auto body supply distributor, this week.
Ill post with results after I attempt this.

 

I agree, you can get a fender cheap from a junkyard. It'll take less time to replace it.

 

when it comes to plastic there so much you can do to repair it, my general thing is to clamp the pieces so that they sit flush with each other and use a soldering gun and melt them together and i sand them down clean them up and hut both sides with a little bondo and sand again once the bondo tries or depending on what is being repaired you can use pop rivets and some bondo (i refer to bondo because its the cheapest and most readily available to me without making a trip to get actual 3m fiberglass overall its not that hard of a process just takes a little bit because of the bondo drying and the "melting" of the two pieces together.

 

Yes Yes this is what i was looking for. I am going to try this repair, the melting of panels etc as you described. Trying to keep this on the cheap.
Wont get to it until I replace the evaporator. Its gonna be hot soon , need the ac first.
Thanks! Russ

 

Straight forward fiberglass repair techniques should work well on the plastic panels. The basics, sand down below surface, lay in fiber glass cloth, re-sand, a skim coat of bondo and it should be good for a long period of time. How good? Depends on how good you are at doing it. As in everything if you have access to the back side and many panels comm. off easy enough, that would be better if not? Well then you get what you get.

 

yea plastic is very easy and can easily be done cheap, like my saturn its got a small crack so ill probably just either melt it together or pop rivet a piece behind the crack and grind the rivets down and bondo over it but, ive done quite a bit of body work and quite a few surfaces, most techniques will work for most projects,so no prob need anymore tips send me a message i can always help, body work is like a second language to me