I had a little fun today, actually did bodywork. We have this '97 Honda Accord V6 that needed a fender a little tiny bit.
We have had this car at the shop for a few months now, it's a long story. But one of the hangups is that fender, it's not available,
anywhere. Not new, not aftermarket, not used, nowhere. It's because it's a V6, the darn fender is longer than a four banger. Anyway, we have the rest of the car done and we are waiting for a fender that was purchased on Amazon, that doesn't exist. I have learned this is one of Amazons little games, they sell you things
then they find it. Well if they can't find it......it's been I believe four weeks and it still hasn't shipped......that's because it doesn't exist people!
Anyway, I heard of a Honda specialist wrecking yard that may have one and I called them today. When the guy heard what I want he said "Buy another car" LOLOL, they are
that hard to find.
I walked out and grabbed the one we took off the car and set off fixing it.
It was buckled everywhere throughout the structure and all.
I brought my shrinking disc in today and after about an hour of work to even get the fender onto the car (this thing was MASHED into the hinge pillar and rad support.) I went to work and in no time it was looking pretty good.
And with just one skim coat of filler I got 99% of it, WHOO HOOOOO! If I had gotten it spread out a little faster I wouldn't have even needed that but right as I finished around the wheel well it started hardening.
But I had a blast doing it being I don't do this anymore and haven't done anything this big in a few years now.
And yes Henry, I get mouthy crap too at work, there are always guys with little pee pees who have to do that. So a few of them had never even worked with me in the shop and always look at me like an estimator who doesn't know anything. One of them was saying crap about the grinder and shrinking disc obviously not knowing what it was. But just saying stupid crap like I don't know what I am doing. When he came up and looked at the fender and felt it the color drained from his face and his chin dropped. It was like I had done it from home with my mind. It was hilarious! I would have loved to keep going and metal finish it, it really was coming right along, I was hoping to do that just to really blow him away but all the millions of tiny stuff that would need to be done was taking too long. But I had a blast none the less.
Brian