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 Post subject: Looking for the cleanest removal of pinch weld
PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:49 am 
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Anyone have any suggestions for removing without making it look like a five year old attacked it with a hammer lol

Some pictures would be awesome

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 Post subject: Re: Looking for the cleanest removal of pinch weld
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Do not cut (or remove it), it is part of the unibody system.
Just hammer it over, the plastic wheel well covers it up..
As long as you take your time to sand/heat/sand, it will look factory.

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 Post subject: Re: Looking for the cleanest removal of pinch weld
PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:17 am 
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infernicus wrote:
Do not cut (or remove it), it is part of the unibody system.
Just hammer it over, the plastic wheel well covers it up..
As long as you take your time to sand/heat/sand, it will look factory.




Can you explain? I mean the part about the plastic..

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 Post subject: Re: Looking for the cleanest removal of pinch weld
PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:25 am 
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easiest way I have found is to heat the plastic up some, it cuts like butter then
cut a v shape out wider than the pinch weld area,
bend over the pinch weld and flatten as much as possible, then slowly heating the plastic you can form it back out over the cut area smooth it over and done
Oh and paint the area where you beat the pinch weld over at before replacing the plastic

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 Post subject: Re: Looking for the cleanest removal of pinch weld
PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 2:34 am 
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a secondary fix that's more or so visual than anything else, is once you've beat the pinch, take a piece of steel step flashing, they're about 10" long or so and have a 90* bend in them and very cheap, about 25 cents a piece

cut a patch out of it and rivet it to the inner wheel liner over the gap and spray everything over with whatever rubberized undercoating you can find

the flashing is thin enough to bend to accept any bulges left from the pinch not being entirely flat but strong enough that the rivets aren't going to pull through it and the rubberized spray will give it plenty of weather proofing to prevent water from getting trapped behind it

but either paint or rubberize the pinch area after you beat it down for good measure anyway

just a secondary method

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