yep............the same thing has happened to my car as a few of you guys, some bloody dickwad has put their knee in to the side of my car just above the front wheel............we should set up a lynch mob to "look after" these ass holes.

Not happy

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/

By knee in to the front wheel arch thing.... do you mean something like this??

Thats what my mini looked like when i bought it

besides the dent there is also a little "tear" in the seem which you can just see in the photo, this tear makes the panel flex in and out really easily.

is this repairable with some welding and beating? or should i change the panel?

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1975 Hairy Lime/White Clubby
Build Thread: http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=80657

bastards!! I've had enough things ripped off and smashed on my mini, I don't want a knee in the side of it either.

previous owner of my daily used to shut the doors with his knees , why couldnt he use the door handles??

maybe he had no arms?

what do these people get out of farkin up other peoples things? just last night i was a work and was working in the back dock, and i looked out into the carpark and there was this group of 5 kids throwing rocks at the big spotlights set in the wall, pressumably to break it they are either really stupid or really REALLY bored...

There are solar panels ontop of lights around my area.. i guess to save on electricity for the council.. stupid kids have gone and smashed all the panels with rocks.. must have been fun

G'Day Thorlek,
Definately repairable as you should be able to get to the back of most of that part of the panel. Steel panels are relatively soft so dont need a big hammer on the flatter parts, just lots of little taps with a panel beaters hammer and dolly, otherwise you will stretch the metal and then you will have a big "oil-can". Work on getting the curve back at the side of the headlight first as that bend holds the rest of the shape further back. When you get that bit right the rest of the panel should just about pop back by itself. Make up some cardboard templates from the good side and use them as a guide to show you how far out things are.
Once the shape is set then (carefully) MIG up the tear.

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Over 1,000,000Km, but now my retirement restoration project

The other night while i was at work, night packer, some drunken f*** throw up down the back of my car and left a nice boot print with a dent and cracked paint to proved he'd been there. If i had of been there i would have left him with a nice dent.

yea it sucks ass working at night in toormi, unprotected car park...
but luckily enough deano at work has a mini too, so i always park further away from the entrance to the car park than him, incase one of the little shits goes "ohhh mini, lets kick it stupid "... theyll hopefully see his first

dean will be comin down with his clubby for the 26th of feb cruise

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No more Minis!......For now.

Well you do work in toormina

I am amazed you could see those kids in the dark

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67' Matic
73' S

My Minivan was jumped on by kids at the railway station a few years ago. Hence I drive the Corona to the station now. So far it doesn't attract attention.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Wouldn't you love to jump on their heads?

Lance: They should be f*cking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
Vincent: Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it.
Lance: What a f*cker!
Vincent: What's more chickensh*t than f*cking with a man's automobile? I mean, don't f*ck with another man's vehicle.

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Metal to burn, sparks to fly...