June 2007 - After doing all that stuff it was time to start on the driver's door. This was a huge fiasco but I learned a bunch about doing bodywork because of it. After I sanded all the paint off the drivers door it was obvious that the car had been hit in the door too. The whole area inside the black line was 1/4 - 3/8" low. Since this area is behind the impact beam, the only thing I could do was either fill it up or try and pull it out with the stud gun. I also thought about removing the impact beam but I wasn't sure how much that would change the shape of the door frame and skin. Since this is my first attempt at bodywork and I had never tried to "fit" a door to a car before, I really overworked the metal. Used waaaay too many pulling studs. I ended up doing about 3 rounds of stud welding, straightening, grinding the stud heads off, filling and shaping the door.