Need some help locating parts! Wrecked 07 GX (1 Viewer)

[Guynstein505]

Well I appreciate the input for sure, however before I posted this straightening wasn't an option I was gonna drill and replace apron, core support. I was looking for oem parts. I've looked deeply into it and yea gonna gonna replace the core support for sure, inner apron probably gonna heat and stretch. I didn't ask the forum for tips on frame work I asked the forum

I worked at a body shop years ago that worked on aluminum jaguar bodies and other high end cars. They didn't have a fancy rack and fixed everything like they were back in Vietnam and it was all exceptional work.

There's nothing magic about what they do and before laser leveling racks and frame stretching tables, people were fixing cars successfully. There's tons of shops that still do it that way.

Buy yourself a tripod and a construction laser level and get after it. Once you do the tear down and get all the junk parts off, you'll see it's really minimal work to get that straight.

You have a wrecked car right now. It's not like you're contemplating cutting up a pristine GX. It's a crumpled inner fender and a

I worked at a body shop years ago that worked on aluminum jaguar bodies and other high end cars. They didn't have a fancy rack and fixed everything like they were back in Vietnam and it was all exceptional work.

There's nothing magic about what they do and before laser leveling racks and frame stretching tables, people were fixing cars successfully. There's tons of shops that still do it that way.

Buy yourself a tripod and a construction laser level and get after it. Once you do the tear down and get all the junk parts off, you'll see it's really minimal work to get that straight.

You have a wrecked car right now. It's not like you're contemplating cutting up a pristine GX. It's a crumpled inner fender and a great learning

I worked at a body shop years ago that worked on aluminum jaguar bodies and other high end cars. They didn't have a fancy rack and fixed everything like they were back in Vietnam and it was all exceptional work.

There's nothing magic about what they do and before laser leveling racks and frame stretching tables, people were fixing cars successfully. There's tons of shops that still do it that way.

Buy yourself a tripod and a construction laser level and get after it. Once you do the tear down and get all the junk parts off, you'll see it's really minimal work to get that straight.

You have a wrecked car right now. It's not like you're contemplating cutting up a pristine GX. It's a crumpled inner fender and a great learning experience.

Tell that to jiggletits lol

 

[Guynstein505]

I worked at a body shop years ago that worked on aluminum jaguar bodies and other high end cars. They didn't have a fancy rack and fixed everything like they were back in Vietnam and it was all exceptional work.

There's nothing magic about what they do and before laser leveling racks and frame stretching tables, people were fixing cars successfully. There's tons of shops that still do it that way.

Buy yourself a tripod and a construction laser level and get after it. Once you do the tear down and get all the junk parts off, you'll see it's really minimal work to get that straight.

You have a wrecked car right now. It's not like you're contemplating cutting up a pristine GX. It's a crumpled inner fender and a great learning experience.

But really you're right. Time to start pulling s*** parts and gathering replacements..

 

[greenscobie86]

Doesn't look impossible. Check my build thread, I didn't have as much core support damage, instead it was mostly center core support/frame x-member. A come along/sledge hammers is really all it took. Yours should be no different.

If you. cant find parts locally and in color then ebay or car-part.com might work for you. It did for me at the time, sadly this was pre pandemic so parts were cheaper/readily available...