Thanks guys. Yeah I'd still love to have tried the panel bond to see if it worked. It looked good on some sides:

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But you can see on the drivers side (even from this angle and distance), that it just wasn't going to fit (the panel is already shaped to the shape it was MEANT to be, I should add..

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You can clearly see the gap at the rear of the front window sheet and the body...