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| | | Am I Wrong? #765820 September 25th 2020 3:34 am | Joined: May 2018 Posts: 16 stranger | OP stranger Joined: May 2018 Posts: 16 | Body work is an art. I appreciate all the hard work that is involved and how hard it takes to make it perfect. Bondo is the devil's icing. It swells, cracks, and makes a complete mess. Only movies can get away with bondo. I've been to so many car shows where "custom" cars are cracking from chopped roofs and molded fenders and quarter panels. A lot of people seem to watch TV shows where they mold this or that with body filler (Bondo is just a brand of body filler). It's a hack job and will create problems in a few years. Like cracked paint, body panel separation, body filler bulging and creating lumps in doors as it expands such as shaving door handles. Frenched antennas are usually inset and when water gets into them the bondo also expands and cracks. You can always protect your bondo buggy by keeping it indoors at a reasonable temperature. But you still have a brittle clay hotwheels with an expensive paint job. | | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 1,510 Likes: 172 Master Yard Rat | Master Yard Rat Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 1,510 Likes: 172 | Yeah, I'm more into the 70's street vans with meaty tires and a rake.
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers This town ain't big enough for the both of us And it ain't me who's gonna leave
| | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Jun 2020 Posts: 257 Likes: 48 enthusiast | enthusiast Joined: Jun 2020 Posts: 257 Likes: 48 | As a 28 year old, I've learned to steer clear of pretty much any sites or blogs that mention the words "vanlife". I've found most of that content is tailored for idiots, or social media trends. And the focus is never on the vehicles themselves, always amenities inside of them. Most folks my age interested in vans could care less what kind of van they've got. I'd go even farther and say in my experience, they are typically very mechanically challenged.
1987 G20 1993 Jeep Cherokee 2010 BMW station wagon | | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 1,510 Likes: 172 Master Yard Rat | Master Yard Rat Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 1,510 Likes: 172 | As a 28 year old, I've learned to steer clear of pretty much any sites or blogs that mention the words "vanlife". I've found most of that content is tailored for idiots, or social media trends. And the focus is never on the vehicles themselves, always amenities inside of them. Most folks my age interested in vans could care less what kind of van they've got. I'd go even farther and say in my experience, they are typically very mechanically challenged. More money than mechanical inclination.
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers This town ain't big enough for the both of us And it ain't me who's gonna leave
| | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 887 Likes: 14 old hand | old hand Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 887 Likes: 14 | You're not wrong. Bondo or really any filler, unless it's EXTREMELY minor surface coat, will crack eventually. Body shops (good ones anyway) use it fairly regularly but only very light skim coats and they know how to prep the metal properly as well, which minimizes the risk of falling out or cracking. If it's going to be too heavy, they replace the panel or section it. | | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 372 Likes: 16 enthusiast | enthusiast Joined: Dec 2018 Posts: 372 Likes: 16 | use of body filler or a filler primer is commonplace with proper techniques it should be just fine, molding in rough metal work isn’t going to last as long. Full metal body work is also done, much less common look up Wray Schelin/proshaper work, the master, a lot people out there that have learned from him. Even with metal work to go from 90% up to 100% perfect is a massive amount of work, and hence coin.
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| | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Dec 2017 Posts: 494 Likes: 21 addict | addict Joined: Dec 2017 Posts: 494 Likes: 21 | You may not necessarily be "wrong", but it seems your garage may need better ventilation. | | | Re: Am I Wrong? | Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 1,266 Likes: 43 old hand | old hand Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 1,266 Likes: 43 | What is this thread even about?
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