This is just in a general call for help my son backed my Excursion into a tree, there's a big dent in a right rear quarter panel that I do not believe is going to be able to be pulled because of the complexity of the bend. Does anyone have a line on a right rear quarter panel for a 2000 Excursion 7.3. I've been to a body shop and checked with the Nationwide Ford dealer Network and no one can locate a new panel right now I'm looking for a fairly straight used panel anybody has a line on one, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

How far up is the damage? A Super Duty quartet will fit the lines, but the tail lamp opening is different.

 

Of course, the damage starts directly above the tail light...
Thanks for the reply though.

 

Local junk yard is probably your best bet.
Any year Excursion will do.

 

There's one in line to get cut up at the extrication pad at work. It's an xlt with grey leather interior and the right rear quarter panel looks fine and it's gonna be destroyed, there's nothing I can do about it and IT'S KILLING ME

 

I have tried the local junk yard, and the body shop I took two is tied into some junkyard Network or something, they can't find one, I'm going to start calling junk yards on the phone on Monday.

 

Hasteranger.
tell me where you work, I may go shopping with my Sawzall😉

 

Isn't it a van panel side?

 

Dunno how close you are to Texas, but there might be one at The Gold Mine that @Nicmike frequently gets stuff for us at.

Stewart

 

Fire department training grounds.... Try to always have a variety of vehicles on hand to simulate different scenarios for extrication, entrapment, car fires, etc. We train on Jaws of life (though no one calls them that anymore,) and many more advanced methods, down to taking a door off with a ratchet and socket in the event the power tools fail.

The day we got the excursion in I sighed and it's been sitting there. I'm not sure what happened, it has damage to one side but things inside are dislodged like it was a much bigger impact so maybe it flipped completely over.

We have a Cadillac limo and a uhaul truck sitting there too, and we just cut up a 2014 Subaru forester a couple weeks ago. Like I said, they like a variety. We usually have 20 or 30 vehicles.

 

MDH16,

Where are you in Indiana? Also if you take a pic and post it I can see what I have. Just picked up a body from Texas.

 

​​​​​​​What color? I recently ran across a red ex at a junkyard in Shreveport, La. Rear body is in good shape.

 

I'm near Corydon, about 20 miles east of Louisville, KY. Below is a pic of the damage.
If you guys can help it would be great!
Thanks,
MDH

 

Looks fixable to me. Expensive but fixable.

If you have a wyotech type trade school near by hit them up and let the students do the body work to save a few bucks.

 

that looks fixable if you remove the plstic trim inside from that corner an may be able to use a 2x4 to hammer out the corner or if you got a welder handy could remove the light and drill a hole in the different dents get a wide washer and strong bolt to pass through the hole from within the body an few good pulls with some good vice grips and a pipe, had a job similar on a e250 wont be 100% due to metal fatigue after being dented but wont be nearly as bad