Crap...think my A pillar is tweaked!
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That's your typical GM fit and finish. I always noticed how poor their seams were finished. Even my '95 Olds has crappy looking lead filled joints. I noticed with my wagon, the windshield moulding wasn't the greatest fit.
These cars are all "factory tweaked".
These cars are all "factory tweaked".
They just got happy when finishing the lead joint with a file or grinder and cut the edge too far down. When you start looking for it, you'll see it on every one....either too high or too low. They were just getting them out the door, and most people don't look very hard at "new" cars.
If it was one piece of sheetmetal and was bent, there would be humped up metal somewhere...it has to go somewhere when it bends
If it was one piece of sheetmetal and was bent, there would be humped up metal somewhere...it has to go somewhere when it bends
If you want to feel better pull the apillar, bpillar, and rocker door sills...
The inner edges of the panels where the different pieces line up before being pinch welded together never line up. Trim just hides most of the variation car to car.
Back in the 80s it wasn't as much robotic arms and jigs lining up the panels as it was "Hey, JOE! Lay off the beer at lunch, that last car you eyeballed before layin the weld barely got covered by the trim!
The inner edges of the panels where the different pieces line up before being pinch welded together never line up. Trim just hides most of the variation car to car.
Back in the 80s it wasn't as much robotic arms and jigs lining up the panels as it was "Hey, JOE! Lay off the beer at lunch, that last car you eyeballed before layin the weld barely got covered by the trim!
Awesome. Thanks guys. Here are a few pics of the total A pillar. Its just nuts I've never noticed this before. I dont see any humped up metal. I really appreciate the input as i was truly worried my hydraulics some how bent these!
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Somehow I don't think the mighty 267 had anything to do with this....my daily. Look at that gap on the left side where the pieces come together by the windshield, and the notch on the right...GM's finest right there!
I still love them, though, and choose to drive them over newer stuff
Maybe they were scabs in '77 and got hired on full time, cause my 78 wagon has similar issues on the left side, lower piece is a good 1/4" from touching the piece under it and has ONE bird poop MIG weld bridging the gap.
this is what we in the industry call a "normal characteristic". just because the customer doesn't like it, doesn't make wrong. this falls under the "falls within normal assembly tolerance or allowance". besides, the guy who did it right, got fired for slowing the assembly line down.
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