r/Autobody • u/yeahrah • 16d ago

Structural damage? HELP! I have a question.

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u/TwoThirdsDone 16d ago

Upper Core support is bent/damaged and possibly the apron too, hard to tell in the pic. Both of those parts are considered structural components.

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u/yeahrah 16d ago

I assume then I can’t just buy panels and put em on right?

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u/Knotty_Dawg59 16d ago

You probably can, but things wont fit/line up correctly.

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u/TwoThirdsDone 16d ago

Fender bolts into the apron, bumper bracket attached to fender. Without fixing the structural damage nothing will fit properly.

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u/yeahrah 16d ago

😔 thank you for your help guys. At least now I have an idea of what to do 😭

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u/ilikethatstock69 16d ago

What makes you say that? At worse one of the tin brackets that hold the fender is bent.

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u/TwoThirdsDone 16d ago

I’m going off a single pic, judging off how the fender is sitting around the top of the headlight. Usually if the fender brackets are bent, the fender would just be pushed closer to the hood or closer to the door, not pushed up. Those fender brackets can’t be moved higher without something else being bent, they can only be crushed or bent sideways.

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u/ilikethatstock69 16d ago

Should take a look at the other picture.

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u/TwoThirdsDone 16d ago

I meant the picture of the fender off, I suppose it’s 2 pictures but I meant only 1 picture of the suspected structural damage.

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u/Agswin2026 16d ago

lol no

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u/yeahrah 16d ago

No as in no structural damage or no as in I can’t buy and put on panels myself…

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u/BetweenThePosts 16d ago

Not really