Help popping fend joint back together!

Hi all,

I am a new forum member, but my wife has been a member (or at least a lurker...) since we bought her 2008 Touring.

A couple of days ago, while on a small highway, a dog ran out from a orchard and onto the road in front of us! I managed to move across the road and managed to only kiss it with a glancing blow on the front right corner panels, right under the headlight. The dog was big, like a pit bull, but apparently unharmed as it ran off so fast I couldn't see it, once I was stopped.

The upshot of this encounter is that the joint between the corner panel and the next one back (right under the headlight) is pushed in a bit and the joint came unconnected. I can see the joint tabs in the opening.

Anyone here have any experience popping this joint back together? I searched, but found nothing in the archives about this. I expect that using a hair dryer to warm up the plastic might make it easier to bend the tab(s)so they will go back together, but I am looking for advice.

Thanks for any comments/suggestions, but not looking for flames, as my flameproof "johns" are at the cleaners after the scare that dog gave us!

Phil

 

Thanks, ER2... will check into that.