Front end work

[whudafux]

You think a body shop would be able to straighten this out for me?
If you look closely the gap on left is wider than the gap on the right and when the lights flip up the right headlight rubs against the hood.
Also, if you kno......approx how much would it cost to get straightened out?

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

You think a body shop would be able to straighten this out for me?
If you look closely the gap on left is wider than the gap on the right and when the lights flip up the right headlight rubs against the hood.
Also, if you kno......approx how much would it cost to get straightened out?

i think you might be able to do that yourself. that top piece is like a little plastic strip. and it can be removed as well but itself. by the looks of it it just seems like one side might be mounted too loose and one tootight.

 

[whudafux]

I wish it was that simple lol. I forgot to mention a few parts. The previous owner was in an accident. Although he never told me. The upper tie bar, the thing the radiator and headlights are bolted to, is a little crumpled on the right side looking at it from that angle. I'll take a picture of it tomorrow and post it up. Toyota is selling it for $95. But I'm a little worried that if i take the old one out the new one wont go in because the angle of the engine bay would be off a little.

 

[supra90turbo]

Worst case scenario, you buy the part and it doesn't fit correctly. By that time, it's already at the body shop, so they bring it over to the frame machine. Give it a tug here and there, then it fits. I suggest buy the part before you can't get it anymore.

 

[da89soup]

Hello,
Ok when I got my car a couple years ago it had a caved in front fender headlight and the car had been sitting wrecked for so long that a hail storm came through and pretty much screwed the rest of the car. Needless to say about every pannel on my car has been replaced. I did it all myself with the help of ebay and ups. I shipped fenders a hood, a door, targa, rear hatch and a spoiler. so it can be done. As far a adjusting I took my time and had another person to help push hold ect. The hood and fenders and headlight gaps are all adjustable it just takes lots of adjusting. My sugestion is to pull off the hood, inner fenders,fenders, front clip, headlights ect and look at all of the brackets and see what needs to be straightened or replaced. I personally would do all the body work on the pulled parts while they are off but thats up to you. After everything is done and everything looks good get a buddy and line shit up. None of it is hard everything comes off real easy there are some hidden bolts/ nuts on fenders. I would get yourself a manual it should have all info you need as far as how to remove parts ect. Or shoot me a email I am happy to help. With a Supra you need to be able to do it yourself or you will get poor real fast.
Da soup

 

[whudafux]

Yea, I've taken both fenders off along with the driver side door, twice. I've tried to take the headlights out in a junkyard one time, but i had a little trouble with them. Wasnt really focusing on taking them out tho. I was more interested in the fender. And how would i go about straightening everything out while i have everything off?

 

[da89soup]

Hello,
Ok when I got my car a couple years ago it had a caved in front fender headlight and the car had been sitting wrecked for so long that a hail storm came through and pretty much screwed the rest of the car. Needless to say about every pannel on my car has been replaced. I did it all myself with the help of ebay and ups. I shipped fenders a hood, a door, targa, rear hatch and a spoiler. so it can be done. As far a adjusting I took my time and had another person to help push hold ect. The hood and fenders and headlight gaps are all adjustable it just takes lots of adjusting. My sugestion is to pull off the hood, inner fenders,fenders, front clip, headlights ect and look at all of the brackets and see what needs to be straightened or replaced. I personally would do all the body work on the pulled parts while they are off but thats up to you. After everything is done and everything looks good get a buddy and line shit up. None of it is hard everything comes off real easy there are some hidden bolts/ nuts on fenders. I would get yourself a manual it should have all info you need as far as how to remove parts ect. Or shoot me a email I am happy to help. With a Supra you need to be able to do it yourself or you will get poor real fast.
Da soup

 

[Godspeed]

when my car got hit i went to a friends house and he said the shop near his house would charge about $150 to straighten mine for me and i think mine may be worse than yours. he bent my frame horn in the front as well as the rad. support

 

[whudafux]

Wow. Well that price is Supra-friendly. Damn im sittin here thinkin its gonna be like 600 to fix. Did you get yours fixed? If you did, how does it look now? And theres also another part of my car that i will post about in a few mins that looks doubtful for bodywork.