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Scenic - Jacking disaster

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#1 ·
Right, you can all have a good laugh at me on this one, i just got a puncture in the rear nearside tyre and had to change the wheel in the dark..... i got all the kit out and jacked up on the jacking point....... except it wasn't the jacking point, just some plastic cap on the bottom of the sill which was the same size as the jacking head.... so you can guess what happened next, the car lifting initially then the head of the jack ripped straight through the sill.... i think i deserve a :loser: at this point

so anyway, whats done is done, i've bent it back in as best i can and covered it in gaffer tape to keep the water and crap out of it.

next step is getting it fixed. now that sill is a mighty large piece of metal/plastic all together - running from front to back bumper and right up over the top of the doors etc, all one piece it looks like.

anyone like to guess how much i might be looking at to replace it, or if its possible to patch the damaged piece without replacing the whole thing.

suddenly the new tyre doesn't seem so expensive. :(
 
#3 ·
It depends on what sort of finish you want on the job.I would think a weld repair to the area and quick bit of paint over it would be no more than £50,if you want an invisable repair then your probably talking four or five times that.Any chance of a decent pic of the damage?.
 
#5 ·
Any chance of a decent pic of the damage?.
I second that request.

I have a similar-type of repair this coming weekend on a '59 plate VW Golf which fell off the jack (which was mounted onto the edge of the sill - rather than anchored onto the correct point).

My repair sounds less catastrophic than yours (remove wheel & wheelarch liner, and bend it back into shape - followed by a lick of paint), but a picture tells its own tale.

Paul
 
#6 ·
i'm at work right now, but i'll get a picture when i'm at home tonight, it'll be worth it for comedy value alone :d

Just had a look at my efforts in the cold light of day, can't believe i've been so effing stupid is the first thing that comes to mind, its so blatently obvious in the daylight that the piece i've used is blatently not a jacking point, and there is a big dirty great jacking point about an inch and a half away from it..... marvellous stuff is daylight, i think i'm going to carry a torch in my car from now on.....

anyway, thanks for the replies so far, don't worry, i've got no plans to teach myself welding and attempt it myself :eek:

Ideally i would like an invisible repair. that said its not like the rest of the car is perfect.

if it cost me 2 or 300 quid to get fixed, i could live with that, any more and i'll have to save some pennies first

anyway, i'll post a pic later
 
#7 ·
TBH, if its not compromising the structure of the car, and isn't too obvious from the pavement - a skim of Plastic Padding filler and a generous coating of underseal (on both sills naturally), and that should suffice at a cost of under £25.

A couple of pics (one from underneath, and the other from a standing position) should help determine if that's possible.

HTH

Paul
 
#8 ·
it has ripped up the side of the sill quite a bit when the car dropped on the jack, so it is visible from the pavement, i had to hammer a sizable chunk back in that was sticking out before i taped it all up

picture paints a thousand words tho, so i'll get one stuck up rather than try and describe it
 
#10 ·
ah right, well mine doesn't go as high up the sill as that one, lookes like its bent the top of the sill into the door etc, top couple of inches of sill is fine on mine, but that one has slipped and scraped, where as mine has punctured the sill and made a big old hole
 
#12 ·
I believe that can be filled, smoothed and undersealed.

Its not structural or load bearing (as you now know), and tbh, on a nearly 7-year old car, its value wouldn't be adversely affected by a reasonably competent home repair.

Paul
 
#14 ·
Sorry, wasn't being cruel - just couldn't resist clarifying my point through humour...

Is there a kickplate in the door above? This might provide a bit of access to place and hold a section of wire mesh which would brace a skim of filler (remember, I'm talking about Plastic Padding - nothing brittle).

Got to be thinking out of the box with this one, but a full day would see it right.

HTH

Paul
 
#15 ·
its OK, i didnt take offence, i thought it was funny - you have to laugh at these things, there's more important things in life to get upset about then a bit of twisted metal

off the top of my head (posting from work again, car is at home) i think there are kick plates on the front doors but not the back

realistically, i don't think i'm going to attempt anything myself, i'm going to get a couple of quotes from local coachworks - i'm sure they can help with a cheap repair vs an all singing all dancing good as new invisible repair.
 
#16 ·
well, 9 months or so down the line, and my mot is due next week so i figured it was about time i replaced the gaffer tape which has been covering the hole since it happened for some kind of competent repair which will get me a new ticket :d

so the car is with a local backstreet bodyshop who will hopefully do a decent job, should get it back on wednesday and i'll post some pics and we'll see how much it costs......
 
#21 ·
it'll do me like :d


got my new mot today too, for the first time ever it went straight through with no work required, testament to the time and effort getting everything sorted the last few weeks i guess

so having budgeted 200 for the repair and 200 for the mot its come in at under 200 for both together so i'm quite pleased at the minute


what you gonna chuck at me now mr scenic?!!?!!
 
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