'96 850 wagon tailgate repair?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Atif I. Chaudhry
  • Start date Start date
A

Atif I. Chaudhry

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.
 
Atif I. Chaudhry said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Atif I. Chaudhry said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top