[StingRay]

Gee Wes it does sound like you need a new bodyman. I've been though the same kind of thing. I have literally writtten down instructions of what repairs and the way I wanted repairs done and have come back to find nothing even vaguely approximating what I wanted. The worst part is I said just do it and I'm not asking for the cost or the time right now just do it right.

I try to do most of my own bodywork but when an insurance repair needs doing it has to go to the bodyshop and there is usually some little thing I want done outside the claim since it's going into the booth anyway. Afterwards I always ask myself WHY I let somebody else work on my car.

In my younger and stupider years I drilled a few holes and used slide hammers too. Once in a while even now I find a reason here or there to use a hole but I mig it up when I'm done. I don't have a stud welder so most of the ime I just tack a nail to the panel and slide hammer on that, then I cut the nail off and grind it smooth. I am not even close to being a bodyman and even I can figure that out. You know for a professional bodyman I am surprised he DOESN'T have a stud welder. I've been thinking of getting one.