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O.K. Steve that gap looks fairly uniform down the latch panel ( B pillar) have you tried moving the striker out?

Remember that the door seal is rather large. If you look at the manual for the seal gauge from memory it's about 9mm you can pretty much fit it into the seal with the door closed.... What I'm trying to say and doing it poorly, is there's a lot of movement there.

The gaps I aimed for where about 5mm so by the time my car was painted it would come down to 3mm.

The bottom section of the b pillar and through to the rocker originally hand probably 3-5mm of lead feathered out both back and up the rear fender.... It was pretty much the only place on my car that you couldn't see through the filler when I handed it to my painter.

It's hard to tell in the photo but the front fender panel looks strange like it's bent, but it may be just the photo.

With the gap looking pretty much uniform I'd take the striker off and see what line you get... Post a photo of that.

Whith it not matching your lower rocker line we do need to move it in so that you don't end up with a pile of bog on there.

The hinges on the door should be O.K. But the ones on the frame the are movable can be just out compared to one another, hence the big piece of wood.

How does the other side look??

Fitting these doors took me weeks, but considering when I took the car to bare metal it had about an inch of bog on both doors and rockers from the PO's previous paint job.....

By playing around with the hinge locations I ended up with about a credit car thickness worth of filler in the area that I mentioned above.
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