thea500
11-24-2010, 08:09 AM
Hello, I have a 2006 Vitz. I scratch the driver side door with a pillar. The day after I immediately took it to a panel beater so that I could fix it. The panel beater told me it could be done and the results are great (from what it was).
However now I noticed that the front bonnet does not seem to be closing properly. When I look to the front of the car I can see that on the driver side, the gap between the bonnet and the front is a few millimetres (not more then 5mm) wider then on the passengers side. It is not that it is a big eye sore but it is still annoying. What worries me the most is the fact that I did not hit the front of the car and all the damage was on the door. In other words the body of the car was never touched and in fact the panel beater told me that the car is in great shape.
Therefore I was wondering; could it be that when I hit the passenger door, this might have moved a little backward and pulled the bonnet backwards as well? What makes me feel like that is the fact that the gap between the front door and back door also get narrower.
In this case, does this mean that the body of the car is damaged? Also would professional Toyota repairs help me get the bonnet close properly and therefore the gaps look as if original (ex: align the parts)? Note that all the parts of the car are original (the door was not replaced).
However now I noticed that the front bonnet does not seem to be closing properly. When I look to the front of the car I can see that on the driver side, the gap between the bonnet and the front is a few millimetres (not more then 5mm) wider then on the passengers side. It is not that it is a big eye sore but it is still annoying. What worries me the most is the fact that I did not hit the front of the car and all the damage was on the door. In other words the body of the car was never touched and in fact the panel beater told me that the car is in great shape.
Therefore I was wondering; could it be that when I hit the passenger door, this might have moved a little backward and pulled the bonnet backwards as well? What makes me feel like that is the fact that the gap between the front door and back door also get narrower.
In this case, does this mean that the body of the car is damaged? Also would professional Toyota repairs help me get the bonnet close properly and therefore the gaps look as if original (ex: align the parts)? Note that all the parts of the car are original (the door was not replaced).