Got a problem - bent tailgate door :-(

[tom4bren]

I'm guessing that it's do-able. I still have my old door with that section of cladding removed. Lemme know if it would help to post a pic of what's behind the cladding.

If I were trying to straighten it, I think I'd make a sacrificial tool (unless you have access to some body shop tools). Take a 2x6 about 3 feet long. Cut a 1 inch wide, 4 inch deep knotch in one end (sorta like a 2 prong fork). Use it to try and bend the damage out ... GENTLY.

[VX4EJR]

I'm guessing that it's do-able. I still have my old door with that section of cladding removed. Lemme know if it would help to post a pic of what's behind the cladding.

If I were trying to straighten it, I think I'd make a sacrificial tool (unless you have access to some body shop tools). Take a 2x6 about 3 feet long. Cut a 1 inch wide, 4 inch deep knotch in one end (sorta like a 2 prong fork). Use it to try and bend the damage out ... GENTLY.

A pic would be helpful sure! I get your idea, and was thinking along the same lines...a steady reverse pressure of how the damage occurred...but it would have to be on the backside of the thin part of the bottom of the door pushing outward. It's the whole bottom that is out of whack, not just the door bottom tip, and even one side of the lower (left) part of the license plate was tweaked inward from the impact, which was a subtle one but had enough force to bend a lot. It looks like a tricky fix to get everything back outward, without removing the door, perhaps a counter force from behind but then I'd have to figure a way to brace the door and also what is pushing. Kinda sux.

[tom4bren]

Lemme know if it would help to post a pic of what's behind the cladding.

I didn't forget. It's tough to get pix when it's dark when you leave for work ... & dark when you get back home from work. OK, the truth is that I procrastinate real goodly.