'96 850 wagon tailgate repair?

Looks like something bad happened to my 850 Wagon in a parking lot.

The driver side lower light is broken and the tailgate has a large but
shallow dent.

I bought a new tail light off of eBay. Is there a website that explains
exactly how to swap out the old one and put in the new one?

Also any ideas on how much it would cost to get a tailgait dent
repaired? (I'm in upstate NY)

It almost looks like you could take the inside panel off and pound out
the dent from the inside.

Any advice/comments would be appreciated.

 

If the paint is ok they have paintless dent removal services, I've heard
they work ok in some situations. If the paint is damaged then a body shop
will repaint the whole panel, that's a few hundred bucks.

 

It'll be fairly easy to figure out how the taillight comes off once you
have the new one. There's just a few nuts that are accessible from
inside after removing the bulb changing cover and one floor panel.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

 

O.K. Thanks....