miss aligned body panels
miss aligned body panels i just bought my 2002 z28 a week ago and picked it up this past thursday. when i bought the car i didnt notice that the front fender on the drivers side where it meets the door is miss aligned. it is out about a 1/2in. th passengers side is out a 1/4in. i ran a car fax and it said nothing about an wreck. my question is how to fix it and if you think the frame might be bent? the car dose pull to the right but i think it just needs a alignment. anything will help, thanks
Originally Posted by styoung
i just bought my 2002 z28 a week ago and picked it up this past thursday. when i bought the car i didnt notice that the front fender on the drivers side where it meets the door is miss aligned. it is out about a 1/2in. th passengers side is out a 1/4in. i ran a car fax and it said nothing about an wreck. my question is how to fix it and if you think the frame might be bent? the car dose pull to the right but i think it just needs a alignment. anything will help, thanks
Good chance it was jacked up incorrectly by someone. This is pretty common
on these cars and basically requires banging the living crap out of the small tab at the bottom of the fender to bring it back into alignment with the front edge of the door.
if its at the bottom of the car then u can fix that. my car was goin that and it has a metal brace bolting the fender on at the bottom. and u can take a 2x4 and a decent size hammer and tap it back. its probably went out. and needs to be straight up and down. i had my car at a body shop cause of some hail damage and stuff and that how they fixed it. didnt mess any thing up. Just put a wrag or somethin on the 2x4 makin contact with the metal bracket and tap it straight up and down again and the fender should aligan back up with the door.
