Originally Posted by gsxr750

Sorry to say that in the end all you can really do is get those screws body filled in and painted over, try and get the gaps fixed and then sell the car off or trade it.

Most of the time when a car gets into a major accident that requires replacement panels to be cut out and welded in , the car will never really be the same again. That is why you never buy a used car that has been in an accident.

I had a nissian pickup that was 5yrs old and it got in a side collision that needed a whole new bed side welded on, in the end the welds would constantly break, started getting alot of rust on the replacement panel. I ended up selling it off, as it really should have had a new bed put on it. But all the insurance company would pay for is a new panel to be welded in.

Other ppl I know that had major collision work done were never really happy with the end result, and sold the cars off. In collision work you can really only get good results if there are only small dents that can be pulled out and fix the car with new oem bolt on panels.