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Addressing Body Damage for Flares

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$500 Jeep Gets Upgrades! You decide if they're worth it!!

What happens here

Josh uses pliers and then a pry bar to try and straighten the bent metal around the wheel wells, where the new fender flares will attach. He realizes that the metal is very sturdy and the damage is significant, possibly from a tire coming loose. He concludes that proper repair would involve cutting out the old metal and welding in new pieces, but given it's a $500 Jeep, he decides to simply install the fender flares over the existing damage for now.

Goal: Josh attempts to fix bent body metal around the wheel wells using basic tools, but decides to proceed with flare installation for now.

Tools and materials

  • Pliers
  • Pry Bar

What they say

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and a little bit of fab work now you Pro body guys and you Pro Jeep guys are gonna be all on my case about what I'm getting ready to do here but this is an inexpensive Jeep there's a hole drilled right here and looks like maybe the tire flew off at some point there's black rubber stain on this piece of metal I think that's what happened maybe the tire got loose and fell off so we got the fuel filler neck right here that's kind of in the way of me bending this back in place I'm not so sure my idea but these pliers is gonna work think we're gonna have to get a pry bar just so happen to have one there's no nails in here - bull son look there we go getting a little something there oh good gracious boy that's some good metal no rust here I know if I don't fix this it's gonna annoy me to no end but man that's some that's some heavy-duty metal right there I do believe the wheel has fallen off of this at some point this was a tow vehicle from what I can tell it's got a tow bar on the front or a mounting setup for a tow bar I don't know that that 170,000 miles you guys have to let me know will it still rack up miles on the odometer on the Jeep if you're towing it in neutral oh yeah baby now that's what I'm talking about they want some moving now yeah money leave me alone with Gator please dude it's not we're dying for this is not it's not worth addressing right now really needs to be cut out and a new piece needs to be put in I think we're just going to install our fender flares after all we do have a $500 Jeep here that we're just going to enjoy here on the farm so at some point we may cut that out and if you guys can think of any other solution let me know but really we need a little piece of quarter panel right there to replace that we just need to cut it out and put new metal in that's the right thing to do I think we're going to put the fender flare on and at some point we'll fix this properly then they're flaring

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