"That'll buff out"

Is what my brother said when i crushed my door. I went rock crawling with a bunch of jeeps and got beat to shit by their short wheel base. came home with quite the carnage none of which bothers me more than my dented rear passenger door. rubbed right up against a tree that was chopped low so i couldnt see it. Any advice on 'buffing' that out? strip the inside and rubber mallet to push it back out then a cut polish? ive got plenty of pin striping from trees so the scratch doesnt bother me so much as the dent.

The door doesnt quite open properly either, i have to give it a good tug and downward on the handle to get it open

 

yeah hit it from the backside once

 

The rest of the carnage

Excuse to get a plate bumper.


Free mount and balance from Kal Tire (after they pissed me off)


I was going to relocate that into the bumper with a 4/7pin plug anyways

 

You don't rock crawl a Tacoma it is not built for it

 

Looks like you had some fun.

 

Leave the scar...wrap that thing in armor all the way around and underneath

 

Too late for that. i went just about everywhere they did. just came out a little rough around the edges.

 

Just leave them and go crawl some more rocks.

 

A little rough and out of alignment(your door).

 

I would be sick.....

Looks like you had fun though so that's all that matters.

 

Thats the plan(the armor), i had just installed sliders and wanted to test them out, i did not expect this insane trail. It was a backup run because some people bailed on us (my brother and i) who knew a different, most likely much more friendly trail.

 

I did have fun, until that damn door thing. that put a damper on the day.

 

I bet man... That sucks!

 

id go find a wrecker and throw a used door on or just man up and chalk it up to battle scars.

riteway in chilliwack usually has a fair amount of wrecked Tacoma's and they are pretty good at giving a deal.

 

thanks! maybe i can make another trip down for that.. i picked up my sliders from Cruisin Off Road in Chilliwhack and then went and stayed with my brother in Ladner. I was only down for the weekend from Kelowna

 

I know you said you weren't getting it totally fixed, but FYI, my son had a similar result due to running by a mailbox. Ended up costing me $1600 to get fully fixed by a body shop.

 

I'm not sure, but isnt there a support that runs side to side right about where that dent is, for "occupant protection"? Supposed to help in the event of a t-bone crash. Might be difficult to knock out the dent from inside the door because of that

 

suction cups / dry ice / hair dryer will pull most of that out

 

I heard Go Pro suction mounts work pretty good for pullin dents.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILVWPzO_swY

poof magic idk if this will work on your kind of dent though worth a try...