OK, thanks.
I don't have equipment or skills to clamp and pull... that would be something I'd have to pay a shop to do. Maybe a PDR tech could do it?
I was hoping I could get away with a slide hammer to pull on welded studs while I hammered the creases down but that may be wishful thinking.
Someone already stretched the panel above the bumper when they hammered those big dings from inside near my #2 crease. I have had some success with a shrinking disc on dings but never dealt with this much damage.
It's not clear to me the entire panel was displaced front to rear. I will run a straightedge along the trunk lid edge and compare this damaged side to the other. The top face, rear face, and radiused edge circled here all appear undamaged.
Same along the mid body line and lower panel sections... no sign of compression damage (reflections are not waves):
But this buckle on the upper panel is the unknown. I am hoping if I pull out where the "x"s are, it might relieve the compression up there??? It is clearly pushed in here.
If not, then that may be where pulling it away from the buckle would help. Grabbing it to accomplish this might be a challenge... maybe at the weld but it would have to act through all the bends:
Here's the other side for reference:
Mike