I am currently working on fitting my quarter panels. This has been one of my biggest fears, for with the entire rear portion of my car being replaced other than the rails, reference points are not many!
PLUS, these are the FIRST full quarters I have ever put onto a car.
I have a FULL write-up of my quarter panel troubles on a thread in a different forum...
So I will do a brief overview here....
First a little info:
- Both quarters are Tri-plus (AMD) I do believe AMD is merely a reseller of this brand and it is not "their tooling". BUT, I am NO expert on this matter.
It quickly became apparent that the drivers side quarter would be my biggest foe. For it started fighting me almost immediately during fitment. I was having a HECK of a time to get the quarter panel to sit far enough back (evenly). This was causing poor gap between drivers door and quarter panel. It also makes it hard to get the panel back far enough to meet the trunk fill panel and the tail panel. When I did PULL it hard enough to get it back, you will see that it pulled the top of the quarter panel back but not the bottom (this also causes the body line to be wrong.)
This was the door gap I was getting...
Well... after a boat load of hours, and pulling the quarter on... off... on... off more times than I could count. God must have been looking over my shoulder, for I ended up with this:
With my door gap becoming:
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