Fixing (more) bad body repairs

I thought the scourge of bad bodywork repairs from years ago was gone, but I guess I was just in denial...

Part of the work that I paid a third party for was to deseam the A-pillar, C-pillar and the rear bumper. The bad work on the rear bumper has been fixed (https://mearcat.blogspot.com/2018/12/replacing-rear-panel-work.html) and I knew the deseaming on the pillar seams had to get fixed, but had mentally prepared myself to sort that out during body/paint prep. Unfortunately, I recently tried to hang the doors and found that the hinges were not mounting flat on the wheel arch panel and the door would not close completely.

I had to take yet another side-step from the other work I had planned and fix the A-pillar seams so I could fit the doors. Placing a ruler over the upper hinge holes on the drivers side indicated a 2mm indendation in the panel. The gap in another area of the seam was 3.5mm!  The passengers side was just as bad.

The first step was to use a kerf disk on my grinder to cut a slot along the seam

Panel beating and repairing the entire length of the cut is going to be easier if the shell is sitting on it's side (bolted to the rotisserie) so for now I decided to fix only the section around the hinge holes (panel-beat it flat) so I could fit the doors.

The same was done for the passengers side...

The doors were then fitted and whilst aligning them, I found that both the drivers and passengers door window frames were not square with the rest of the door. This required some heavy handed work with a sledge hammer and some timber pieces to bend the frames back into place.

Before (out of square indicated with a 600mm square)

After :