Last Friday, I posted about my stupidity in putting the jack under the wrong point of the car and bending the panel so I couldn’t open the passenger door. My dad had a solution, which ultimately worked.

He figured that an opposing force would put the panel back into position. He used a metal brace (the kind used on house frames), attached it to the bottom of the panel, and secured the brace under the jack, which was in the correct position to jack up the car. As the jack lifted the car, it would place downwards pressure on the brace, which would then pull the panel down (as it was bent up). It worked :) I can now open my passenger side door again. I had my doubts that it would actually work, but it did.

Divine Angel said:

Last Friday, I posted about my stupidity in putting the jack under the wrong point of the car and bending the panel so I couldn’t open the passenger door. My dad had a solution, which ultimately worked.

He figured that an opposing force would put the panel back into position. He used a metal brace (the kind used on house frames), attached it to the bottom of the panel, and secured the brace under the jack, which was in the correct position to jack up the car. As the jack lifted the car, it would place downwards pressure on the brace, which would then pull the panel down (as it was bent up). It worked :) I can now open my passenger side door again. I had my doubts that it would actually work, but it did.

when i was involved in speedway, the best way to aid repairing damage was to figure out which direction the impact on the car came from, tie that bit to the back of the shed and tow the car out, pulling the damage out in the opposite way it had gone in.
The rest was just cosmetics and re-bracing :)

can’t you buy suction thingos specifically to pull dents out?

The problem was that there were no visible dents. The buckling happened behind the panel- it was visibly bent but the buckling wasn’t on the surface of the car.