Quote:
Originally Posted by Packy
The dash also has clips that hold it down from the underside. If these clips are not secured properly or if they broke this could mean the dash isn't seated properly. Can you lift up on the dash at all? These buttons are kind of a PITA to fix and there are a lot of fasteners holding the dash in place.
do the doors close properly with a consistent reveal around the edges?
|
Nah. . .pretty darn solid. . I thought of that too, but when you look at the angles and what it would take to bring them into alignment you realize that in doing so the front of the dash (at the windshield) would sit up over an inch above the windshield seal, and the edge of the dash would be pointing more downward than normal. I thought of that, of heat warpage, of course had nightmares about a bad hack job on a clip car. . . It's 99.9% an interior mismatch here. (There's NO place like home. . there's NO place like home) LOL
The doors do close well, however they seem out of alignment at the bottom on both L and R. It's as if the bottom hinge needs to be adjusted inwards towards the center of the car where it attaches to the body, however there is no adjustment that I can find there (unless that particular adjustment is internal on the door itself with shims). . . Another weird thing is a bit of leakage on both sides. On the drivers side it will leave a few drops near the headlight switch. . but this appears to be coming in through a bad windshild seal. As best as I can tell it seems to be coming from behind the dash, and not from around the door seal.