Been awhile since I updated my build thread. Had a couple of mishaps and a few changes. We live out in the TX Hill Country, sufficiently far from civilization to have a substantially different lifestyle than the average urbanite. The Hill Country is composed of limestone and granite upwarps, so there is a good diversity of rock crawling terrain. We live in a limestone dominated area, on a hill, so we have rocks galore. However, our driveway is crushed granite and makes its way into every crevice. Who knows where a rock will turn up (dishwasher? laundry? your toilet bowl). Well, anyway, my son picked up a larger rock that had made its way to the mouth of our garage. They've been instructed to throw them away from the house. So he picks up a rock and throws it, only to have it hit the raised garage door and ricochet into the Jeep windshield (which was parked just outside the garage). I didn't have the heart to take a pic, but here's one after the new windshield was installed!
The next day I was changing my oil and a freak wind blew my hood all the way open so it hit the header above the windshield and dented the hood. I worked some of it out with a piece of soft wood and a rubber mallet, but I can't do much more at the folding seam on each side of the upper hood. Thankfully, it's not very noticeable, so I'm just going to move on. A total repair and repaint was $1100 and PDR was $175, but would only correct about 90%. Let's move on in life...it's a Jeep...You may be able to see part of it toward the left side of the pic above, on the seam that goes up on the hood.
The next day I was changing my oil and a freak wind blew my hood all the way open so it hit the header above the windshield and dented the hood. I worked some of it out with a piece of soft wood and a rubber mallet, but I can't do much more at the folding seam on each side of the upper hood. Thankfully, it's not very noticeable, so I'm just going to move on. A total repair and repaint was $1100 and PDR was $175, but would only correct about 90%. Let's move on in life...it's a Jeep...You may be able to see part of it toward the left side of the pic above, on the seam that goes up on the hood.