When I got the car, the rear drivers side wing had what looked like a new and neat repair done to it. I was loathe to dig into it with the grinder, as it looked like whoever had done it had rebuilt the top half of the fin. After finding all the other needless filler, I decided to investigate.

There seemed to be no dents I could feel inside the wing, which was odd as I could feel a thick layer of filler behind the mountings. Using the sander, I dug into filler on the top. After going through at least a quarter of an inch, I hit metal. I worked along and found no dents or rust, just good metal. Just in case, I decided to sand the mountings down, and again found metal. As you can see in the picture there was a complete new wing shape made of filler. Once all of it was cleaned off, the light surround fitted better than before.
I took it all out down to the metal and found a dent about half an inch deep and about an inch long on the tip, and some bad hammer work that had left dents in the wing. You could have done the whole lot with a thin skim. It took about an hours worth of hammering to get it smooth enough to use a really thin skim to finish. Bob was over giving me a hand, and he finish welded the floor repair I’d done ages ago while I sanded the rest of the wing.

I took even more filler out of the wing to find no dents, dings scratches anything. I’m beginning to think that whoever had the car before me had shares in a filler factory. It’s starting to look less like a tatty old car and more like one that’s being rebuilt. Bob had cleaned the bodywork on the door pillar and sill yesterday and I’d painted it over wih primer to stop it rusting too quickly. I think I’m going to take some time off and finish the cleaning while the neighbours are in work!