PANELBEATERS???

[alan.chalkley]

A tree branch fell onto the back of my car and only caused two tiny dents on the rear quarter panel , up near the rear window glass.
I have taken it to a few panel beaters and paintless dent removal guys.
Here are their comments.-
1/ The rear glass has to be removed and the whole rear of the car resprayed.
This would need $650 insurance excess.
2/ An easy glue pull can fix the dents , but would damage the paint and the
whole rear of the car would need a respray.
3/ It would be too much work to remove the inside trim and airbag to only have
limited access and so just live with the tiny dents.
It seems the panel beaters in Sydney just love insurance claims or are too scared to work on a brz.
My camry is already in the panel beaters shop after someone with a towbar reversed into the rear door and drove away.

[Tcoat]

What airbag are they pulling for repairs to a rear quarter?

[alan.chalkley]

Is there an airbag at the rear quarter?
i don't know and i guess panel beaters don't either.
There are utube videos about glue pull dent removal , but i am not confident enough to try.
If there was enough access from behind i am also not confident about magnetic ball pushing.
The panel beaters want to respray the back of the car and i don't want the tiny dents bogged up and resprayed.

[Malt]

Originally Posted by alan.chalkley

Is there an airbag at the rear quarter?
i don't know and i guess panel beaters don't either.
There are utube videos about glue pull dent removal , but i am not confident enough to try.
If there was enough access from behind i am also not confident about magnetic ball pushing.
The panel beaters want to respray the back of the car and i don't want the tiny dents bogged up and resprayed.

Yes there is an air bag behind that panel.

[AtlasMick]

Originally Posted by alan.chalkley

Is there an airbag at the rear quarter?
i don't know and i guess panel beaters don't either.
There are utube videos about glue pull dent removal , but i am not confident enough to try.
If there was enough access from behind i am also not confident about magnetic ball pushing.
The panel beaters want to respray the back of the car and i don't want the tiny dents bogged up and resprayed.

Super easy to get to it from the inside. Put your hands up underneath the big rectangle panel covering the rear window, or from the hoodliner side and pull away from the car.

There are blue plastic pieces that pull out of the panel, so keep pulling until they are as far out as they'll go, then twist each one sideways one at a time to get them out of the hole in the panel. (It comes out easily, its just difficult to describe).

Then unscrew the panel over the rear parcel shelf, and then pull it out. (This guy is much more difficult to get back in due to angle, and the white plastic pop screw wanting to fall back behind other panels so when re-installing use some electric tape and tape the plastic pop screw in place.

Then unscrew the airbag and viola.