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Can any one help with panel gaps! My doors have a 6mm gap at the b post and front wings. I can't get the wings any further back otherwise the bonnet won't fit. Do they just have big panel gaps or am I missing something?
Can any one help with panel gaps! My doors have a 6mm gap at the b post and front wings. I can't get the wings any further back otherwise the bonnet won't fit. Do they just have big panel gaps or am I missing something?
Steve
Back in the day had to except the big gaps . I repaired a gordini for a customer, two quarters ,door, a pair of wings etc and had the same problem, to the point we extended the doors with a 3mm rod on the end of the door skin . It done the trick , then started looking closer at other 5s and decided that 6mm gaps are as good as factory if not better , so it depends how fussy you are . Worrying about door gaps you must be nearly finished.
I need to fit doors and wings to paint the red section at the bottom. Nearly finished yeah right.... only all the running gear to go in, brakes, wheels to sort, flat and polish, decals to apply, lights get the bloody arches to fit properly and all the bushes to change. Etc etc etc
Mine is around the 5mm, looks fine. Think it's a case of when you are looking at the gaps you are concentrating on gaps alone and they will do your nut in! If they are square and equal they will be fine. When you move onto the next job you will be concentrating on that job and forget about the gaps!!
I test fitted before paint and all seemed well in primer for some reason it looks different in colour. Gaps are equal front and back and seem to fit nicely but just look bigger than I remember. I think the car has expanded in the oven
6mm is good! if you get them too tight at the front wing the doors catch and buckle the wing, trick is to get it uniform all the way round! Set doors up to back wing and roof then adjust the front wing to give parallel gaps, never easy
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