commiserations, no personal experience but Lifes seem to be dealers and Kevin vernon the real body specialist, he helped a fellow mogger rebuild a cat c car and its superb.
BTW my plus 8 got side swiped (dent in the rear wing) so not as bad as yours, trouble was it was on the Isle of Man mog event in a hotel car park exclusive to Morgans, no note on my car and no-one ever tried to contact me over the whole weekend to own up. that somewhat tainted my weekend as you can imagine.