Topic: door/fender alignment 2
in Forum: C3 Body
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i was already about to make the doorholes wider to adjust my door til i noticed MixxMaster post and realized we kinda have the same prob.
only for me just one side of the car has this problem, the gap between the upper part of the door and the fender is just too large and i ran out of space in the doorholes for further adjustment .

when i took the body off , my car had no shims, because of some repair on the mounts , i welded 3mm "caps" on 4 mounts (1,2,7,8) and a 3mm plate under the rockerchannel at mount 3 & 4 ......... and put 3mm shimms on mount 5 & 6 .
so all in all i have leveled it out on all 8 mounts.. i thought
but actually i have no clue how to adjust this gap with shimms.. i mean.. where to put extra shimms . i can't imagine putting shimm on body mount 1 or 3 ( doorpillar) to make or point (A) come down or point B come up a little . maybe i should have taken off a bit on mount 1 to make point A come down? anyway...the only thing i could imagine was raising the front nose of the body on the front bumper ........ but that gave no effect
any sugestion?
thank you
art-corvette
art-corvette 2006-10-11 14:14:25
only for me just one side of the car has this problem, the gap between the upper part of the door and the fender is just too large and i ran out of space in the doorholes for further adjustment .

when i took the body off , my car had no shims, because of some repair on the mounts , i welded 3mm "caps" on 4 mounts (1,2,7,8) and a 3mm plate under the rockerchannel at mount 3 & 4 ......... and put 3mm shimms on mount 5 & 6 .
so all in all i have leveled it out on all 8 mounts.. i thought
but actually i have no clue how to adjust this gap with shimms.. i mean.. where to put extra shimms . i can't imagine putting shimm on body mount 1 or 3 ( doorpillar) to make or point (A) come down or point B come up a little . maybe i should have taken off a bit on mount 1 to make point A come down? anyway...the only thing i could imagine was raising the front nose of the body on the front bumper ........ but that gave no effect
any sugestion?
thank you
art-corvette
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problem solved, the guy at the bodyshop only used the holes in the door to adjust height, but with adjusting the hings inside the doorpillar i could adjust the hings enough to get the door inline with the fender
art-corvette
in Forum: C3 Body
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