I'm sanding both door panels and some other choice things. Any ideas on how to fill in this lil whole? If you can't tell, its an 03+ sunfire door panel.
cant see the pic at work, but how big is the hole? spot putty isnt really a good way to fill holes
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Joey Baggs (Eazy716) wrote:cant see the pic at work, but how big is the hole? spot putty isnt really a good way to fill holes
a #2 pencil could fit in it snuggly.
The hole is less than the size of a dime, or thereabout. I would put some bondo in there personaly, and be careful with power tools next time
Mark wrote:The hole is less than the size of a dime, or thereabout. I would put some bondo in there personaly, and be careful with power tools next time
its filler......not "bondo" and i wouldnt do that either. it will crack out guaranteed.
for the size of a pencil...i would agree with Ben. you can get small kits of plastic repair stuff that could work. depending on location of the hole, id tape the front shut and add from the back.
I appreciate the help and advice. i was doing a fiberglass project with my door panels and was gluing the fabric down. i sat the hot glue gun down and turn my back for a second and i guess the gun fell over and melted a whole in the panel. lol
i assume this spot/hole is not something that was in the area of your fiberglass modifications where it could be covered?
It would have been covered up. Before i got to far into the fiberglassing project, I changed my mind and decided to just sand everything down and paint it. I have the first door sanded down with 60 grit. The doors is going to be two tone color.
ok, then i would definately look into one of those small plastic repair kits. you can get them at any autozone, advanced auto, walmart, etc
patch from behind the door panel with anything durable. a piece of plastic. whatever. JB weld that behind it. then flip panel around and fill the hole with JB WELD. it works. my dash face (95 cavalier) had that common crack on the passenger side from whoever tried taking it off before me and i put JB weld between the crack, a little on top and from behind. sanded it down. used a little light body filler, paint and it looks great, like it wasnt ever there. holding up stong ever since and i've takin my dash face off several times since (which requires a little bending and lots of manuvering around)
yeah. thats right... jb weld on plastic. it bonds really good and is really strong.
this is what my dash looks like after i fixed that crack and painted it (and still looks like). it was about 2.5" long starting from the edge and worked its way up. like i said.. like it wasn't even there. give it a try.
i guess i could see JB welding a piece to the back to fill over top of, but i would NEVER fill the entire hole with JB weld...thats just a hack job
laith rei wrote:yeah. thats right... jb weld on plastic. it bonds really good and is really strong.
this is what my dash looks like after i fixed that crack and painted it (and still looks like). it was about 2.5" long starting from the edge and worked its way up. like i said.. like it wasn't even there. give it a try.
Thats what my Bezel looks like. Is it charcoal metallic? I used Duplicolor and a lot of time to do mine, it came out great in the end.
Spray gun in the spring....Or if i paint anything anytime soon.
if you dont want to use it then dont... im just sayin that it worked great for me. and if JB WELD themself said that then they dont know there own product very well. (even though it says it works on plastic right on the front of the package).anyways, i showed a pic of it working great and like i said, it still looks like that now. so if you can visually show me that it doesn't work then.... well i guess you'd prove my wrong. lol. but if it was me, that hole isn't that big, what could possible go wrong with jb weld if its made to hold things like machinery equipment together and if by some miracle chance if it did bond well (like i proved).
i used duplicolors black. cant remember what exact color name black it was but it wasn't metallic or anything. then i loaded on the clear and it it turned out awesome. it definitely took awhile and a lot of sanding but it was worth it. i even wax it with a little meguiars every once in awhile.
jb weld package:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hZRtw2FaL.jpg
laith rei wrote:if you dont want to use it then dont... im just sayin that it worked great for me. and if JB WELD themself said that then they dont know there own product very well. (even though it says it works on plastic right on the front of the package).anyways, i showed a pic of it working great and like i said, it still looks like that now. so if you can visually show me that it doesn't work then.... well i guess you'd prove my wrong. lol. but if it was me, that hole isn't that big, what could possible go wrong with jb weld if its made to hold things like machinery equipment together and if by some miracle chance if it did bond well (like i proved).
i used duplicolors black. cant remember what exact color name black it was but it wasn't metallic or anything. then i loaded on the clear and it it turned out awesome. it definitely took awhile and a lot of sanding but it was worth it. i even wax it with a little meguiars every once in awhile.
jb weld package:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hZRtw2FaL.jpg
thats great and all, but fixing a crack is alot different than filling a hole. so i stick to my original statement. i wouldnt use JB Weld in this project
