06-30-2005, 11:41 AM
eric - you need to relax and stop taking this personally - i'm not taking shots at you or your car - it reads like you're pissed
i guess i'll have to take a look at your hood the next time i see the car - the rubber blocks should not be making forceful contact at all - if they are, the hood is too low - you weren't making contact at the bar with the vanity cover, so i have a hard time imagining anything else that would explain the contact
as far off as your doors were, i wouldn't be surprised if the hood is setting too low - a milimeter is a mile on this design - my thought is that since there was clearly repair done on the car before, it's very likely that things just didn't get put back exactly right
as an example of how common this is, i'm still sorting out alignments of panels now (hood was one of them), and i had my car completely done in a very long painstaking process that SHOULD have been right - i still have to adjust my passenger door mechanism
as for the other past problem on your car, your wheel was so far pushed back, it was very hard to imagine that much castor adjustment - that's why i said we needed to get it up on a rack and measure everything to find out before i said definitively "it's the frame" - that was my suspicion at the time, based on the amount of misplacement, and the fact that you said the car had been in an accident before (though i think you said it was a minor one), but thankfully it turned out not to be the case - that's why i sent you the diagrams with the measurements, and why i went down to the shop myself to take a look (and screwed my splitter in the process) - i was trying to help, not bash your car
as for calling out lucent, i would seriously hesitate to say it was a "bad alignment" (a quick conclusion on your part) - i suppose it's possible he made a mistake, but it is extremely rare - he's really good at what he does - i know you said you didn't hit anything (that time) but it's typically likely that there was some driving condition that pushed things out of whack, but you never know - stuff does happen - in either case, everybody else has had great results with that shop
p.s. - my motor mounts are perfect (i have issues with the vanity cover as it is) - i have clearance problems at the hood too if everything is not exactly right (found this out the hard way)
relax - i'd still be happy to take a look and make the adjustments needed wherever they are on the car
i guess i'll have to take a look at your hood the next time i see the car - the rubber blocks should not be making forceful contact at all - if they are, the hood is too low - you weren't making contact at the bar with the vanity cover, so i have a hard time imagining anything else that would explain the contact
as far off as your doors were, i wouldn't be surprised if the hood is setting too low - a milimeter is a mile on this design - my thought is that since there was clearly repair done on the car before, it's very likely that things just didn't get put back exactly right
as an example of how common this is, i'm still sorting out alignments of panels now (hood was one of them), and i had my car completely done in a very long painstaking process that SHOULD have been right - i still have to adjust my passenger door mechanism
as for the other past problem on your car, your wheel was so far pushed back, it was very hard to imagine that much castor adjustment - that's why i said we needed to get it up on a rack and measure everything to find out before i said definitively "it's the frame" - that was my suspicion at the time, based on the amount of misplacement, and the fact that you said the car had been in an accident before (though i think you said it was a minor one), but thankfully it turned out not to be the case - that's why i sent you the diagrams with the measurements, and why i went down to the shop myself to take a look (and screwed my splitter in the process) - i was trying to help, not bash your car
as for calling out lucent, i would seriously hesitate to say it was a "bad alignment" (a quick conclusion on your part) - i suppose it's possible he made a mistake, but it is extremely rare - he's really good at what he does - i know you said you didn't hit anything (that time) but it's typically likely that there was some driving condition that pushed things out of whack, but you never know - stuff does happen - in either case, everybody else has had great results with that shop
p.s. - my motor mounts are perfect (i have issues with the vanity cover as it is) - i have clearance problems at the hood too if everything is not exactly right (found this out the hard way)
relax - i'd still be happy to take a look and make the adjustments needed wherever they are on the car
94 Midnight Metallic Blue Cab Porsche 968 w/deviating cashmere/black interior and WAY too many mods to list - thanks to eric for creating www.968forums.com
"It isn't nearly as expensive to do it right as it is to do it wrong."
(This post was last modified: 06-30-2005, 12:00 PM by flash.)
