I’ve been driving around with a little door damage caused by some worthless waste of flesh a while back. I wanted to try to repair the damage myself, so I finally upgraded my wire welder to a MIG. The cylinder cost me twice what I paid for the used welder in the first place, but now I have have it for future projects. I figure the money I’m saving more than paid for it anyway.
I had to take the inside door panel off 
to start with. This is easy if you know where all the attachment points are and where to pry, but it is a bit of a pain if you are not a pro. Here is the torn up sheet metal.
Of course, when I bent it back, the shape was all off. I tried using a hammer and dolly to beat it back in shape, but I couldn’t get it to come back out to the right shape. I gave up and decided I’d use filler to get the shape right later. 
I welded a piece of sheet metal behind the door to strengthen the area a bit. It was pretty floppy before I did this.
All I had on hand was white primer, so that is what I sprayed on the bare metal as the sun was going down. I installed the Jimmi’ Jammer before I reconnected the control rods. This little fitted plate adds a bit of armor to protect from this kind of break in.
Nice work. Wanna do some dent pulling on my truck, next? My van needs some work, too.
Yes, bring it over, I need more practice.
Are you aware that all you will get to do is pull dents? I will not let you near my vehicles with a welder of any kind.
I need to weld on some pull studs in order to pull out sheet metal. Come on man, the van is a perfect practice vehicle. When we are done, we can shoot at it, as long as we miss the glass and engine and fuel tank, right?
I was thinking we could shoot Betty. You blew our chances with Wilma a while back.