240SX Rear Fender, CRUNCHED!!

[pa0pa0]

Hey everybody/anybody, my 1989 240SX Coupe's rear driver's side fender was crushed at my school parking lot last week. I found out I have to pay for all the damages myself because my insurance doesn't cover collision damage on my car, just the damage on cars that I hit. Since it was a hit and run, I can't have the person who hit my car pay for it with their insurance. Sucks right?

Well, I was looking up rear fenders for my car on ebay (and such) and found a few decent ones. But when I inspected my car today, the rear fender and the roof looks like its one whole piece. The rear fenders I found where only the fenders. No extension to the roof of the car.

Does this make sense or am I looking up the wrong fenders here? If I buy the fenders I found online, do they have to surgically cut and place them on my car or something? Thanks.

[SirWarrior]

if they are overfenders, they go OVER the regular one.
and it is a unibody frame, so rear fender is one with the roofline, if you want OEM, you're SOL, take it to a body shop

[OdessaS13]

yeah that sucks, your insurance is called liability for future reference,
the fenders you are looking at on ebay are probly wide fenders , they go on top of your currents rear quater panel and then bondoed to make it look like part of the body. To fix it it either need to be pounded out from the inside and even then you still need to fill the surface becase its going to be uneven and then paint over it. getting hit in the rear is all bad cuz like u said it mostly all one part. your more costly alternative is cutting the rear panel of a junkyard 240 and then having a shop cut out you old one and weld the new one in, however cost of this is not worth it.
btw how bad is it, pics?

EDIT: damnit warrior you just had to answer before me while is was typing all this shit huh, haha :bash:

[ni[x]it]

Alot of uni-body repair fenders are just parts. You cut out the damaged panel then tack in the new panels. Once tacked, you weld in the whole thing. then grind/prep/epoxy/blend/base/color/polish/clear/polish. in that order.

[jy116]

make sure ur not lookin at hatchback rear quarterpanel... s13 hatchs can remove rr right? Just the coupes are connected to the C-pillar...

Like they said, just get some widebody over fenders for like $300[?] rivet em on, and ur good :]

[projectRDM]

There is no Nissan vehicle I know of that has removable quarter panels. You're smoking rock.

The NSX and some Ferraris have bolt on quarters, but 99% of cars are unibody as mentioned. Cut and weld.

[derux]

the rear panel only connects at the C pillar. It is not part of it. you need to cut one off of a good car and weld it on to yours

[40daws]

and new OEM quarter panels are still available from nissan. I bought one a month ago for my left rear on my coupe.

[thejester03]

Been there, just pounded mine out for the moment, gonna bondo and primer one day when Im feelin froggy(AKA never).
Edit: Eww, forgot about the steelies, those were HIDIOUS!!

[Shri2222]

240sx is a unibody, you can't just unbolt the 1/4 pannels. They are removable, but inorder to do so you must first locate all the spot welds and then dripp them out,, pull the pannel out, mount the new one drill piot holes into the new replacement, rivit it in place, and then take a mig weld and do plug welds all around . The end, I'm a bodyman so should settle that. If the damage isn't to bad, i'ed say do a fender over widebody rear 1/4 and rivit it on, and use fiberglass or fiberglass kitty hair bondo. to even it out.

[Shri2222]

Been there, just pounded mine out for the moment, gonna bondo and primer one day when Im feelin froggy(AKA never).
Edit: Eww, forgot about the steelies, those were HIDIOUS!!


if you lived in Jersey i could help you pull that with my unispoter. as much as possible.

[DP_Michelle G]

from the looks of the pic the damage isn't to bad. just pull it out as much as you can and put on a over fender.

[thejester03]

Fayetteville Arkansas, no QUITE worth the drive, lol, the problem is, its in a terrible spot to pound it out, there is some chassis in the way in the trunk, so it will take a little finness(spelling?). But Im too lazy, all well.....
Thanks for the offer though!!!
Although, the original poster does live in Jersey...