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Old 11-05-2013, 10:04 AM
Dan Stokes Dan Stokes is offline
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The best thing is to scrap the car.

Or you could do what I recently did with my pickup. Go to PnP and grab a door, Unless you have paint skills, drop it off at MAACO (or similar) and have them paint it BEFORE you screw it on. That way they can spray the jambs all the way around (called "jambing). You'll need to be careful when reinstalling a painted door but I've done many and it works fine. Then once the door is hung you're done.

Be VERRY careful when you prepare to close the door for the first time as this is where you're most likely to rub the new paint on something and skin it up.

That door might be fixable but it would take careful handling and some metal shrinking. This is stuff for skilled hands. After your PnP door is on and that project is done you might want to tackle the repair project as a skill-builder. Always good to learn new stuff and this way if it's not perfect it doesn't matter.

Dan
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