Tailgate Trim Panel Repair
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Tailgate Trim Panel Repair
The XLT aluminum trim panel on my truck is in fairly good shape with the exception of a few minor dents. Does anyone know if there is a good way to go about smoothing them out?
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Yup, buy a new one. "fixing" them will just make it look like you tried to fix them
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Well a new one isn't in the budget. They want far to much money for what the part is. I bought a new one for the old truck for about $300, and thought that was steep. Now they want almost $500, which is not really worth it.
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300 is rediculious. U need to go to a junkyard. It might take some time to find a good one, but im sure u would
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I was thinking of trying something like dixie460 or stak suggested. The dents are very minimal in depth and are not creased.
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I haven't seen a nice used one in a few years unless it was on a nice truck that wasn't wrecked.
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It won't look brand new but it might help. Might f'k it up worse too, I don't know. Mine was all banged up so I just took it off and welded the holes up. If you look at it from a certain angle you can see where I welded, but this ain't a show truck it's a DD and weekend play toy.
If you want new then you have to buy new, as Brad said. I don't think there's much you can do to make the aluminum look perfect again, given the finish on it.
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Best bet is keeping an eye out in junkyards. I bought one of craigslist that is pretty darn nice for $100. My original I still have, the plastic is perfect on it but it has hail dings. Thought about seeing if one of those paintless hail remover guys could fix it!
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I was curious if the PDR guys could do it too.
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