Old front door - filling small holes, cracks? Car stuff?

[Sparkysea]

Hi All

I am preparing for Spring and need to paint my original Victorian oak/pine external front door. Inside and out it has quite a few small dents and marks where locks have been changed etc. Someone said to me the best thing to use is a car body hardener....? Does anyone know about this?

Do you fill the bear wood first and then sand and prime?
Your thoughts and experience would be really welcome,

Season Greetings

Sparky

[Sparkysea]

Funny

[Sparkysea]

So can you use the same primer on wood, Beetnik?

[Sparkysea]

Thank you Slagahorse but I will be filling bare wood... I stripped all paint off

[Sparkysea]

Wow Hyphen sounds like you know what you're doing! But filler over the whole door? won't that be hard with filler that goes off in seconds?
I won't start mine till spring but I suppose could start the inside

[Sparkysea]

Hyphen ... its looking good, easier though than when trying to do it in situ