heple1983

I am repairing my lightly damaged front end and have come to fit the bonnet and noticed that there seams to be no way of aligning the bonnet.

when it is closed there is a gap on the drivers side and no gap on the passenger side and it does not seam to line up with the wings which were undamaged in the crash.

Here are the Pics:

Drivers side gap



Passenger side





as you can see the bonnet sits out of line with the wing it is too close and too far forward.

Front




Here are the pics in full size

http://heple.fotopic.net/c318403.html



If anyone could help it would be much appreciated

Nick98

Can't help specifically but is that a genuine Subaru bonnet or a pattern part? If genuine then its only alignment (normally slotted holes on the hinges). If its a pattern part though then it may never fit 100% as they aren't made to the same tolerences as a real one - all you can do is even up the gap a bit and tinker with it to get it to look half right (but it will bever be spot on I'm afraid).

Good luck

Nick

heple1983

The holes on the hinges aren't slotted i was just wondering if they were any other way of aligning

scoobyfury

you need to adjust one side at a time, It looks to me as if you need to undo drivers side bolts and move the bonnet back, the hindges are slotted to move the bonnet forward or backwards. I've fitted loads of bonnets on impreza's.
Martin.

mark@wrx

It is possible to slightly bend the brackets to suit. We had to do this with a pattern bonnet recently.