The car needs paint bad, and there isn't a straight panel on the car.

Crack: Left front fender has a giant crack. What's the best way to repair this?



Rock chips: The front nose and passenger fender have really bad, really deep rock chips/gouges



Split: Nose is split where my little sister backed into the car at 10 mph, also cracked the sidemarker. Not sure even how to begin fixing this? Sidemarker I can just replace.



Someone backed into my door REALLY hard and ran off. The metal behind the panel was bent when I had the door apart, had to pound it back into shape with a hammer.



Spidercracking: I think that's what this is called. The entire roof and top of the rear clip looks like this. I think it's the paint and not the panel, and I have to sand it down to the bare plastic? Or is the panel itself damaged?





Pitting: The entire rear bumper, on the top surfaces of the black parts, has pitting like this. Should I spread bumper repair material on top and sand it down flat again?





Decklid: Just like the top, just not as bad. I'd like to fill the luggage rack holes and add a spoiler, though.



Passenger side: There's some overspray in areas like someone tried to fix it before, but didn't bother to do any kind of prep, and gave up. Lots more clearcoat almost gone.



The top of the bumper is really badly discolored. The car came with a front end mask, which I'm guessing was on it since it left the dealership.



The local autobody supply place reccommended SEM Bumper repair for the front and rear bumpers, can this also be used on the fenders and doors? The also reccommended Evercoat Fibertech for the SMC panels (roof, decklid, and hood). Anyone used these before?



HELP!

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1984 Fiero SE

Where your bumper is broken is going to be hard to permanently fix, Id find a replacement.

The cracking in the paint is only in the paint, you will have to sand it down to at least the orig primer

peeling and fadiing clearcoat needs removed by sanding at least down to the base color on the full panel...that may be ok.

The rack holes can be filled by dishing them in both inside and outside. Use the SMC repair kit, put a piece of fiberglass cloth or matt on the inside. Just put some tape over the hole on the outside, put filler on the inside and while still wet push the matt into it and another coat of filler on...all at once while still wet. they pull off the tape on the outside and do the same. On the outside cut the matt round like a coin so it sets slightly down into the hole.

I would start e-baying parts good used parts..

Just my .2

I am in Michigan and am parting out a 84 with some good panels on it LMK if you are interested.

Unfortunately I don't have the time or gas money to make a 10-hour round trip to drive downstate and pickup the body panels. The local junkyards either don't have them, or they want $150 a piece for parts that are in the same or worse shape. There's some cheap ones in the Detroit area, but again that's 10 hours. eBay parts are fairly cheap, ut shipping is ridiculous, since the parts are so big, and I don't trust USPS/UPS/Fedex not to mangle the parts before they get here. Maybe I can get the parts when I'm down there for the 25th Show...

I would try bargaining with the junkyards... they give you a price but you can usually haggle them around for quite some time. The last thing they really want is to have you walk out the door without buying something.

You might want to try and find another vehicle just for the body panels. You'll probably end up spending less that way and you won't have to repair cracked parts. Roger's advice on the cracked paint is right on......sand that down to the original primer and repaint. The damaged panels are much easier to replace than repair, and even with the cost of another Fiero ( if the price is right ) you can get away spending less time and money.

Mark