The Nearside Headlight Repair

Ok so ive jumped forward a bit in time now but i wasn't planning on doing a blog back when i took on the headlight surrounds so your just gonna have to bare with me. As you can see from the photo, i attacked the car with a wire wheel and found an amazing amount of filler with a good amount of rust underneath. The most worrying thing was the sheer amount of dimples and dents all over the wing! The headlight surround was looking BAD. The lip all the way around it was pretty much non existent so it had to go. Ive never taken on this repair before so lots of measuring later, i bit the bullet and went for it!

Absolutely chuffed to bits with how this turned out. Everything lined up pretty well and the measurements i took before the cut came in very handy for making sure it was in the right place. My main concern was after the headlight was installed it would angle too far up, down, left or right. The last thing i wanted was to stand back and look at the car when it was all built up and painted, only to find it had wonky eyes! Not good!

Although very "dimply" the wing metal was in pretty good condition and allowed me to get a good weld on it.

So after i was finally happy with the position, i finished off the weld.

A wee bit of cleaning up and a dab of primer and its ready for a skim fill.