RE: Panel Gaps & Adjusting body panels

["Stian Birkeland" <delorean@xxxx>]

Hi James,

Yes, I'm pretty sure that I won't be adjusting the doors, since Stephen Wynne adjusted my driver's side to to perfection. We tried a lot at Wingrays, and it took a lot of time to get the door latches to correctly hit the striker pin. So, Stephen told me to adjust the panels. The reason why we didn'tdo it there and then, was because of our tight schedule to reach Eurofest last May. Until that time the door was in line with the body, but the door didn't close well. Now that problem is fixed.

Again, let me tell you the adjusting problem. When you view the car from the front towards the back on the driver's side, you can see a gap between the door and body. In other words, the front fender must be adjusted a bit outwards so that it aligns with the door. Same goes for a little bit on the back of the door. Here it is the quarterpanel that must be adjusted a bit outwards. Then the question arise, why don't you leave it the way it is sinceits only about a cm that needs to be adjusted right. Well, I would leave it like this, but I have a very irritating wind noise which appears only because of the mis-alignment. So I want it fixed, once and for all. 

So I need a detailed description of how to adjust the front fender. This isthe most difficult part since some screws involved again involves the front fascia which I really dont want to mess with too much.

Best wishes :)

Stian Birkeland
Norway

VIN # 06759

Web: http://home.online.no/~stianfb/

From: "jamesrguk" <dmc12@xxxx>
Subject: RE..........Panel Gaps & Adjusting body panels


*Adjusting Panels*

Stian, are you sure that you don't want to just try adjusting the 
doors again, I would have thought having anouther go at the doors 
would be much more appealing than adjusting the front and rear 
fenders which will most probably lead to you having to adjust the 
bonnet as well.

James RG