cjbiagi wrote:Ok, so you are moving the whole lower part of the fender and nose piece out when you adjust it?
Yep, the nose follows the fender when you align it. There's quite a bit of twist available in the front lower part. BUT.. if you can't get all the adjustment needed, you may want to start from scratch and remove the front nose. Readjust the front fenders outward a bit more with the inward facing bolts that were hidden by the nose.
There's also another possibility I got to tired to type out last night.. Under the urethane lower cover at those protruding and unsightly corners there is a rubber spacer for some reason. The bolt it attaches with corrodes or the aluminum corrodes,(probably snow belt cars only) and puffs the urethane out just a bit too much.
Worth a check.
I have no problem accepting the notion that a few cars if not many slipped through the quality checks, and had bad corners from the factory, and I'll get to exactly why in a bit..
I do contend that most of the time, the car was was parked a little to far over a tall curb. Or the car was backed down a steep driveway..or any number of reasons the front may have been tweaked (not hard to knock 'em it out of whack)..
I didn't have a reason to go to my storage area tonight, but I'm going to go now and see if maybe I didn't get this fixed like I think I have sitting here at the comp.
As for the factory screw ups.. I spent a full a full afternoon aligning and re-aligning my front nose/hood/fenders..to get everything just right..
with even gaps, and hood that latched properly..ect...
The worker had less than 60 seconds to get the fender on just right and all tight?? then the hood? Then the nose?? all perfect? Holy cow! Certainly there were smooth installs, but then there must have been plenty of "awww... fuck it" cars that would go by every hour.. And lot's of "oh well, good enough"..
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