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Originally Posted by Timo
Mike,
Thanks for explanation of body fillers and their proper use. A resto shop owner once told me the exact same thing about the mis-use of bondo/body fillers and how these products are getting a bad rap because of it.
I'm currently doing a brand X rolling resto job on an old BMW. I was wondering what you thought about using the aformentioned body fillers(any and all the ones you mentioned)and if they were suitable for filling up small holes in the panels where some "aftermarket crazed idiot" (pardon my judemental expression) mis-drilled holes for mounting non OEM badges and name plates ect...in places where they were not meant to be. These holes for mounting the badges seem to be farily standard in size for most cars and in this case they are about 1/8 in diameter maximum.
Most, if not all, of these holes will be covered by the badges when they are remounted in thier correct location. Do you think it better to just weld them up as opposed to using body filler? Thanks in advance.
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I had a similar situation and found that weldong comes in real handy. I welded in the holes that happened to me. Came out real nice and still holding after 9 years. . .
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