{"id":536,"date":"2016-02-25T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2016-02-25T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T11:00:56","slug":"collision-repair-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/25\/collision-repair-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision Repair at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter my sister had a little run-in with a guardrail when she lost traction in the slush on the road. It was a pretty slow hit so it didn&#8217;t do too much damage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-542\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016_02_25_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_02_25_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The height of the guardrail was just right so that the bumper missed it and the only parts that got hit were the left fender and headlight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-544\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016_02_25_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_02_25_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went to a junkyard and picked up a used headlight for fifty bucks, and did my best to bend the fender back into decent shape, because a fender would be harder to find in the right color, if I didn&#8217;t want to paint one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016_02_25_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_02_25_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After no more than a couple hours I had everything back together and looking pretty good. I&#8217;m not a collision repair tech, so anything I do like this isn&#8217;t going to be nearly as good as they could do, but it doesn&#8217;t look hacked together like some pictures you see.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To get in touch and see more pictures throughtout the week, follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Just search for Mechanical Malarkey.<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter my sister had a little run-in with a guardrail when she lost traction in the slush on the road. It was a pretty slow hit so it didn&#8217;t do too much damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[26,31],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-family-cars","tag-damage","tag-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}