Question on door alignment. Help!
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Question on door alignment. Help!
Okay, so I've gotten one side of the body mounts removed and replaced. (Not me personally, I have to gratefully thank my body shop for obliging to do this for me). Well, to my dismay, what I was expecting to happen did not. I thought that it would line my doors up alot better than they did. I tool a couple of pictures of it so maybe you guys can give me some advice on fixing the problem.
Do I need to shim up the back, the front or what? This is really a pet peeve of mine, and I'd like to get this resolved once and for all. HELP!!!!!
[Modified by dukvet76, 6:27 PM 2/3/2003]
Do I need to shim up the back, the front or what? This is really a pet peeve of mine, and I'd like to get this resolved once and for all. HELP!!!!!
[Modified by dukvet76, 6:27 PM 2/3/2003]
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Re: Question on door alignment. Help! (dukvet76)
Hi Rob
The big pics will easily kill a dial up connection, might want to consider using a link and/or smaller pics so more members can view your message.
My first reaction was, does this shop have much Corvette experience. Either your body was way off to begin with or they didn't put it back together right.
I'm not a body and fender expert, but if it were my car and the shop did this kind of work, I'd be very concerned, even upset that they would dare suggest the work was finished.
Do they now want to charge you more to line up the rest of the panels? Why wasn't that included in the original estimate? Were they surprised that the body mounts replacement changed the alignment? If they were surprised, how much experience do they really have?
Maybe fixing the other side will make a difference or make it worse. But you better find out if these guys know what they are doing, or if they are just learning on your car and are charging you by the hour for their education.
The big pics will easily kill a dial up connection, might want to consider using a link and/or smaller pics so more members can view your message.
My first reaction was, does this shop have much Corvette experience. Either your body was way off to begin with or they didn't put it back together right.
I'm not a body and fender expert, but if it were my car and the shop did this kind of work, I'd be very concerned, even upset that they would dare suggest the work was finished.
Do they now want to charge you more to line up the rest of the panels? Why wasn't that included in the original estimate? Were they surprised that the body mounts replacement changed the alignment? If they were surprised, how much experience do they really have?
Maybe fixing the other side will make a difference or make it worse. But you better find out if these guys know what they are doing, or if they are just learning on your car and are charging you by the hour for their education.
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Re: Question on door alignment. Help! (dukvet76)
What's been done to the car other than the body mounts? Are you in the process of repainting the car? When I remounted the front clip on my car prior to paint, I had to re-shim the hinges and add fiberglass to the fender edges to make the seems acceptable.
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Re: Question on door alignment. Help! (Doug2500)
Hi Rob
The big pics will easily kill a dial up connection, might want to consider using a link and/or smaller pics so more members can view your message.
My first reaction was, does this shop have much Corvette experience. Either your body was way off to begin with or they didn't put it back together right.
I'm not a body and fender expert, but if it were my car and the shop did this kind of work, I'd be very concerned, even upset that they would dare suggest the work was finished.
Do they now want to charge you more to line up the rest of the panels? Why wasn't that included in the original estimate? Were they surprised that the body mounts replacement changed the alignment? If they were surprised, how much experience do they really have?
Maybe fixing the other side will make a difference or make it worse. But you better find out if these guys know what they are doing, or if they are just learning on your car and are charging you by the hour for their education.
The big pics will easily kill a dial up connection, might want to consider using a link and/or smaller pics so more members can view your message.
My first reaction was, does this shop have much Corvette experience. Either your body was way off to begin with or they didn't put it back together right.
I'm not a body and fender expert, but if it were my car and the shop did this kind of work, I'd be very concerned, even upset that they would dare suggest the work was finished.
Do they now want to charge you more to line up the rest of the panels? Why wasn't that included in the original estimate? Were they surprised that the body mounts replacement changed the alignment? If they were surprised, how much experience do they really have?
Maybe fixing the other side will make a difference or make it worse. But you better find out if these guys know what they are doing, or if they are just learning on your car and are charging you by the hour for their education.
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Re: Question on door alignment. Help! (Roadster71)
What's been done to the car other than the body mounts? Are you in the process of repainting the car? When I remounted the front clip on my car prior to paint, I had to re-shim the hinges and add fiberglass to the fender edges to make the seems acceptable.
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Re: Question on door alignment. Help! (dukvet76)
I had to glass the fenders because I was fixing a Buba repair by the previous owner. Before doing any glassing have the shop revisit everything they did. If it's worst now than it was before, then a mistake was made somewhere. There is a lot of room for adjusting by adding/taking shims and sliding the hinges, but by the pictures yours looks like its to far off.
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