[LT7A]

That's a neat truck, good grab! I had similar dents in one of my trucks. The PO lost his wife to cancer, blamed the doctor, went out and took it out on his truck. Now my truck. Would be 95% straight, clean, and factory finish – well maybe 91%, if not for that episode. But life messes with us sometimes and that pain and anger has to go somewhere. I've done my best to massage it back out of the truck, but my results are similar to yours on the driver side, but a little worse. If you figure out how to get the ripples out without going full bodywork, please post here. I have the isolated panel of basecoat/clearcoat syndrome on another truck, haha. I think your plan of bringing the other paint up as far as you can and then scuffing the clear down is a good plan. I'm going to try it.