Need help with fixing a rear ending...
 

The PO had been midly rear ended on my sedan. I would guess it was a sports car, becase instead of denting the bumper, the nose slid under the bumper and pushed the lower body panel into the spare tire wall and accordioned the trunk floor just a wee bit. Becuse of this the trunk lid sits askew as the trunk lip is now curved up a bit. My question is how to fix. A friend has suggested that I back the car over a wall and use the wall as a fulcrum with a crow bar and move everything back into place? This is the best suggestion I have heard so far. Any others?

It will take alot of force
 

Think of the PSI involved in any impact. You will have to use at least that amount of force to get things close to where they were. Body shops use a frame machine to pull things back into place. There are also portable devices to do this but you have to have both the car and the device well anchored. Both the frame machine and the portable tool (Porta Power is a brand name) use hydraulics to do the pushing and pulling to straighten out panels and frames.

You may be able to get enough force with a crow bar but with not much control. With the hydraulics you have much more control.

Depends on how you used the crowbar. It could cause more harm than good.

It sounds like you need to pull the opposite of the rear ending, down and back. I used a block and tackle coupled to a phone pole to straighten out the rear bumper on my truck.

Do you know any good body shop workers? They can tell you the best home made way.

DON'T DRIVE INTO A WALL!!! :rolleyes:
I'd recommend either going to a bodyshop with a frame puller (cost you some money, will end up the best)

or get a chain hoist (attached to ceiling to pick up things usually)
attach the chain hoist to a tree, and pull on the back of the with that. (kinda redneck, but may work, until tires begin to skid)

or you could buy a 10 ton "porto-power" hydrolic (sp?) ram, it comes with several rams and stuff that you could wedge in the trunk and push out on the back with.

Just please be careful, with the type of pressure required to straighten stuff like this, a chain can come loose and rip right through you and anything near you.

This happened once with a frame puller at a college near here, no one was hurt, but they've got a hole through the wall now.

Keep it safe guys.

Here is a link to an interesting site showing detailed repair (including frame pulling) of minor damage:

http://www.251.org/vgon_dent.html