G'day Folks,

Like the title says - has anyone ever done it?

Has anyone ever done it in a better way than that described in chapter 66-330 in the FSM?

Has anyone ever done it and the car has lived to tell the tail????

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Bump!

Not even a comment about the bad joke then?

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Love to help but I sure havent done it.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

I haven't done it on a Mercedes, but I have done other cars.

Are you repairing collision damage? Rust damage?

I usually place the new wing(fender or 1/4 panel for those of the North American persuasion) over the old one, then decide how much of the new panel I'm going to use. If the damaged area is small, then I'll cut out that bit, plus another 2 inches(50cm) and then draw around that while it's over the old panel. Then I go an inch inside the marked line and cut it out. Depending on the welding skills available, one can either do butt welds(edge to edge) of use a joggler to create and offset in the old panel for the new piece to overlap on. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHEET-METAL-JOGGLER-EDGE-SETTER-WITHOUT-HOLE-PUNCH-/280617475928http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHEET-METAL-JOGGLER-EDGE-SETTER-WITHOUT-HOLE-PUNCH-/280617475928 I prefer the model with the hole punch, but you get the idea.

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I choose to be happy, even when the Mercedes is being awkward, lol

I have one of those tools but I'm trying to avoid patching stuff. In a perfect world I'd like to repair the rust I have in the rear wheel arches by replacing panels and spot welding factory style everything back together.

I've started this thread here showing how far I haven't got!

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/body-repair-restoration/303669-my-w123-saloon-sedan-old-accident-repair-bit-rust-repair-thread.html

I'm slightly concerned that if I just cut the %%^&&er off then I'll never get the panel fit back again...

At the moment I'm aiming for a super duper perfect 100% fantastic job. (And that's one of the reasons I've taken so long getting nowhere to date)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!