Anybody have gaps on their bumpers?

[J-Villa]

It's because it's a uni-body car.

I talked to a body shop guy about it once b/c a Si I was looking at had really mis-aligned pannels. He said that becuase it's a unibody, every car is slightly different and every pannel has to be hugn slightly different. If it's done by someone who is not really good at their work, or becomes mis-aligned b/c of impact or something; it's quite difficult to get them to line back up unless your really good at what u do.

I'm no body expert like this guy was, so I really don't have a 2 cents to add onto what he told me. I believe it's plausible enough to be true.

 

[mr_mazda329]

I bought mine brand new 10 aug and it has the same thing wrong with it, also paint chips on the hatch...Don't know how that happened either

 

[steven88]

wait so your MS3 is bone stock and still has that gap?

I do not know if mine came like that from the factory...I just know after my HID install it started to do it...or maybe I just NOTICED after I did the install...who knows

 

[Tiffers]

no gaps

 

[J-Villa]

wait so your MS3 is bone stock and still has that gap?

I do not know if mine came like that from the factory...I just know after my HID install it started to do it...or maybe I just NOTICED after I did the install...who knows

I did a litle search, and a lot of people have the gap problem after the headlights are messed with. Maybe one of the mounting locations for the headlights is also an alignment point for the body, and u have to re-align the panels after you mess w/ said mounting location.

that or I'm completely lost (spank)

 

[steven88]

I tried messing around with the headlight....taking it off and putting it back on and see if there was any "adjustment"...well theres really no way you can adjust it...