Car Bodies: Handbooks - Dent Removal, Welding and Spraying

Haynes Car Bodywork Repair Manual: Car bodywork and paintwork - From paint touch-up to major repairs

Haynes manual over bodywork repair, of the wegwerken of simple scratches until the replacement of complete panels.

• Useful advice for estimating damage after accidents and working with the spray gun.
• Step-by-step instructions with more than 500 photos.

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Author:	Martynn Randall
Details:	240 pages, 10.6 x 8.25 x 0.35 in (27 x 21 x 0.9 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	500 b&w and 50 color photos
Language:	English (technical dictionaries in 19 languages are available for free download here)
Publisher:	Haynes Publishing (GB, 2015)
Series:	Haynes Manual (4198)
ISBN:	9781785210044

The Complete Guide to Auto Body Repair (2nd Edition)

Knowing how to repair car bodywork without using a body shop is a useful skill for any car enthusiast. Whether you plan to restore, modify, or simply maintain a vehicle, from a classic car to a custom build, this book offers clear and practical guidance.

In this revised and updated edition, author Dennis Parks presents modern tools and methods adapted to current vehicle standards and technologies. New photographs and step-by-step projects explain the use of panel adhesives, improved repair methods, unibody construction, media blasting, panel repair and replacement, and tools suited to water-based paint systems.

This guide covers the full range of damage a car may suffer, as well as the work involved in a full restoration. It explains tools, materials, and techniques in a clear and structured way. Readers learn how to remove, repair, and refit body panels, and how to prepare surfaces for painting. The book enables readers to restore a vehicle properly and reduce the need for professional body shop services.

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Author:	Dennis Parks
Details:	208 pages, 10.6 x 8.25 in (27 x 21 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	483 color photos
Language:	English
Publisher:	Motorbooks International (USA, 2015)
Series:	Workshop Manual
ISBN:	9780760349458

Automotive Bodywork and Rust Repair

There comes a time when just about every car on the road will need some form of rust or body repair. Quite often, if the car is a daily driver for running errands, repairs are never made, and the car eventually ends up in junkyard heaven.
For our beloved collector cars, hot rods, and muscle cars, dents, dings, and rust are not an option, and neither is the scrap heap. And for just about any restoration project, the bodywork is by far the most expensive part of the process.

In "Automotive Bodywork and Rust Repair", veteran restorer Matt Joseph shows you the ins and out of tackling both simple and difficult rust and metalwork projects.

This book teaches you how to select the proper tools for the job, common-sense approaches to the task ahead of you, preparing and cleaning sheet metal, section fabrications and repair patches, welding options such as gas and electric, forming, fitting and smoothing, cutting metal, final metal finishing including filling and sanding, the secrets of lead filling, making panels fit properly, and more. Also included is a comprehensive resource guide.

Whether you decide you want to tackle a full restoration project, or just want to save money by doing minor repairs yourself, Automotive Bodywork and Rust Repair is the book to get you through it.

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Author:	Matt Joseph
Details:	160 pages, 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.39 in (27.5 x 21.5 x 1 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	450 color photos
Language:	English
Publisher:	CarTech Inc (USA, 2010)
Series:	S-A Design Workbench (SA166)
ISBN:	9781932494976

Fix It! - How to Repair Automotive Scratches, Dings, Dents, Tears, Stains and Odors

A complete guide for any car or truck owner who wants their ride to look, feel, and smell like it did the day they bought it. Years of use will take its toll on a car. Coffee spills, paint scratches and fades, hoods and fenders acquire dents and rust, and smells linger in the upholstery and ventilation. It all adds up to a car that's not as fun to drive as it used to be and maybe even embarrassing.
Whether breathing new life into your reliable ride or getting it ready to sell, you can solve these problems with a few basic tools and products, and the right instruction on how to use them.

This book provides step-by-step projects anyone at any skill level can accomplish to help keep their car looking its best. From buffing a scratch to popping a dent, doing it yourself has never been easier.

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Author:	Kris Palmer
Details:	160 pages, 10.6 x 8.25 x 0.39 in (27 x 21 x 1 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	400 illustrations in color
Language:	English
Publisher:	Motorbooks International (USA, 2011)
Series:	Workshop Manual
ISBN:	9780760339893

The Complete Guide to Auto Body Repair

Whether from hailstorms, parking lots, or plain bad judgment, everybody needs to know how to repair automotive bodywork at some point during their car-owning years.

This book provides all the information you'll need to deal with any bumps, bangs, and bruises your car encounters. From tools to materials to techniques, this book takes the reader all the way through the process. Beginning with creating a strategy, then moving through disassembly, repair, reassembly, and preparing the surface for paint, author Dennis W. Parks shows how to repair damage from collisions, neglect, and rust.

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Author:	Dennis Parks
Details:	192 pages, 10.6 x 8.25 x 0.63 in (27 x 21 x 1.6 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	350 color photos, 15 diagrams
Language:	English
Publisher:	Motorbooks International (USA, 2008)
ISBN:	9780760332788

Auto Body Repair Technology (6th Edition)

This 6th edition features extensive new and updated material reflecting the latest automotive technology and current industry best practices. In addition to incorporating current NATEF Collision Repair and Refinish Program Standards and Task Lists, this market-leading book provides detailed information on working with hybrid and electric vehicles, using environmentally friendly water-based paints, and other cutting-edge methods and materials.

Celebrated for its clear, reader-friendly explanations and detailed, accurate information, this proven guide also includes abundant full-color photos and illustrations to make even complex concepts easier to understand and apply.

Providing comprehensive coverage of collision repair-from initial evaluation and estimating, to structural and mechanical repairs, to repainting and refinishing-this trusted guide helps you quickly and confidently learn the skills and procedures you need to succeed as a professional automotive technician.

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Author:	James Duffy
Details:	1088 pages, 11 x 8.9 x 1.5 in (28 x 22.5 x 3.8 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	many color photos and drawings
Language:	English
Publisher:	Cengage Learning, Inc (USA, 2015)
ISBN:	9781133702856

Restaurez Réparez votre carosserie (2ème édition)

Do you want to restore the beauty of your vehicle? Would you like to take care of restoring its shine yourself? This book is here to help you, but also to help you determine whether you think you have the skills to carry out these operations successfully.

With this book, carry out small bodywork repairs with complete peace of mind and judge the feasibility before embarking on an intervention.
Let yourself be guided to change an element, straighten a wing, form a body part, weld a piece of sheet metal, repair a polyester part, carry out painting. Good equipment, the right gesture, the right tools, all you have to do is get to work.

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Author:	Sylvie Méneret
Details:	144 pages, 10.6 x 8.25 in (27 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	850 b&w and color photos
Language:	French
Publisher:	ETAI (F, 2018)
Series:	Restaurez
ISBN:	9791028302856

Die Karosserie - Oldtimer & Youngtimer - Pflege & Reparatur

Damage to the bodywork is one of the most annoying things that can happen to your car, because even if it is not serious, it is the first thing that catches the eye.

Pages of the book "Die Karosserie - Oldtimer & Youngtimer - Pflege & Reparatur"

In this guide, Christoph Pandikow shows you in an informative and expert way how you can protect your bodywork in a preventative manner and what you can do to safely repair the damage if problems do occur. Whether it's paint care or painting yourself, denting the bodywork or removing rust - Pandikow explains exactly how you should approach the care and repair.

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Author:	Christoph Pandikow
Details:	224 pages, 10.4 x 7.9 in (26.5 x 20 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	252 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2015)
ISBN:	9783613037526

Die Karosserie - Reparatur von Karrosserieschäden

The recognized standard work for all bodywork in a revised new edition. This guide for training and further education in the bodywork trade provides comprehensive and competent information on tools and equipment, working methods and straightening processes, welding, painting and repair work as well as the comprehensive field of plastics processing.
Indispensable for the specialist, but also an important guide for anyone who carries out repairs to the bodywork themselves.

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Author:	P.H. Olving
Details:	376 pages, 9.25 x 6.1 in (23.5 x 15.5 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	500 b&w photos and drawings
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2017)
ISBN:	9783613040854

Praxishandbuch Korrosionsschutz: Vorsorgen - Behandeln - Konservieren

It is a constant topic for all classic and vintage car owners: rust! The appropriate strategies for keeping the "brown plague" away from the beloved metal for as long as possible are discussed no less eagerly. But which method is the most suitable? Preservative wax, oils or perhaps grease?

The specialists at Oldtimer Markt investigated this question in a complex five-year long-term test. It is well known that the decision to use cavity protection is a bond for life: once it's in, you can never get it out again! After all, it's about preserving hundreds of hours of restoration or an untampered original condition for as long as possible.
It's about emotions and value retention and the good feeling of having really done everything in the fight against rust.

Other topics in this title of the "Oldtimer Markt Praxishandbuch" series cover interesting aspects of the corrosion problem, such as the processing technology of cavity protection, powder coating and blasting techniques. In addition, well-known restorers from the scene allow a look over their shoulders and are happy to share their secrets.

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Details:	160 pages, 12 x 8.5 x 0.79 in (30.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	200 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Heel-Verlag GmbH (D, 2014)
ISBN:	9783868527001

Karosserie - Blech, Lack und Reparatur | Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst

This guide provides valuable tips and tricks for everything to do with bodywork. How to make your car fit for the seasons, how to recognize accident damage, what you have to consider when removing dents, painting and repairing - this book provides precise and competent answers.

Pages of the book "Karosserie - Blech, Lack und Reparatur"

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Author:	Dieter Korp
Details:	240 pages, 10.4 x 7.9 in (26.5 x 20 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	many photos and drawings
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2011)
Series:	Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst (175)
ISBN:	9783613030824