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Originally Posted by porwolf
My understanding is that some flexing is not a sign of structure disintegration. Targas and Cabriolets can never be as rigid as cars with the structural roof acting as a brace. But flexing is not necessarily a problem. Just watch airplane wings in a turbulence!
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Seriously, unless someone can produce a showroom-stock, no-miles example of a targa that the doors open on while jacked as they do while on the ground I'm not even remotely convinced it isn't inherent to the chassis.
Tests could be done to quantify all of this (and experience could potentially be enough to throw a red flag on a badly fatigued chassis), but if you're going to that end to check a chassis you should either buy another car or get over yourself.