Help finding car part
Posted by looking4luna@reddit | Autos | View on Reddit | 10 comments
hey everyone! I have this smart forfour hatchback 66kw from 2018 that I scraped on a wall and I'm trying to find at least the black part but can't find a name, reference, anything. could anyone help out? thanks!
wiseoracle@reddit
You would need to find the same car at a junk yard. Get a cut off wheel and cut in a few spots above and then drill out the spot welds. Use a pry bar to pop it off. If it first fully pop off you might have missed a spot weld in the area that is stuck.
Then you’ll need to do the same thing on your car. Line up the cut out part, draw it on your body of car. Cut a below the line. Line up the part and get it as accurate as you can. Then you’ll need to weld everything on it.
Does that seem like a lot? Sure but it’s the right way.
Otherwise a visit to the body shop
Domowoi@reddit
I think you underestimat how difficult that will be. I think the door will be easy to find, but the other part is not something you can just swap.
I think touching it up will be the way to go here.
RossLH@reddit
That there is the unibody. Replacing part of it is a cut and weld job.
sabertoot@reddit
The car is 4 feet long how do you possibly side swipe a wall?
tedward_the_honorabl@reddit
That is part of the sheet metal cockpit you would need to cut the rear quarter out and weld a new one in or replace the cab entirely, orrr just pull the dents and get the paint touched up.
GRN225@reddit
How fun, you get to learn how to weld!
tehlurkingnoob@reddit
That’s part of your quarter panel. It’s welded to the car.
You will not be able to simply unbolt and replace it.
mpgomatic@reddit
Quarter panel?
Lunatack47@reddit
That is your quarter panel
TheSigma3@reddit
That is basically the whole side of the car. It runs from the a pillar to c pillar and across the skirt. This will need repairing rather than replacing