Fixing panel gaps - GIF

**ToolTalkBot** · Feb 20, 2025, 10:27 AM

Fixing panel gaps.

Previously:

1939 Pontiac "Ghost Car" with plexiglass body panels - photo and video
Autobody panel stamping press - GIF

**bob_3000** · Feb 21, 2025, 09:52 AM

I wonder if that's the way the guys at Koenigsegg do it too?

**Floradawg** · Feb 21, 2025, 11:51 AM

These days automakers generally do a very good job of making all the gaps nicely spaced. I wonder why that one was off.

**Saltfever** · Feb 21, 2025, 08:46 PM

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**Saltfever** · Feb 21, 2025, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by bob_3000

I wonder if that's the way the guys at Koenigsegg do it too?

Yes, but they use a precision calibrated gauge made from zerodur by Heidenhain and certified with a CMM in an environmentally controlled chamber. The gauge transmits data via bluetooth to a SPC (statistical Process Control) system that Koenigsegg uses in presentations at marketing meetings. I just use a paint stirring stick.

**bob_3000** · Feb 24, 2025, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by Floradawg

These days automakers generally do a very good job of making all the gaps nicely spaced. I wonder why that one was off.

My family is a big bunch of car buffs, my son in law is the service manager at one of our local Tesla stores, last summer at our annual family reunion of fifty plus folks SIL brought a Model S PLAID to the reunion (with the blessing of his store manager) to give some joy rides.

I have never been in a faster car in my life, everyone that went for a ride came back with eyes as big as platters, this is a family that grew up with 1960 and 70's muscle cars (we still have a few), 911's, Jaguars, Aston Martins, one Ferrari and a long list of go fast toys over decades.

Incredibly impressive performance by the Tesla...the body panel fitment on the car was an absolute joke, SIL said that the local dealers do their best to align things as much as they can but in reality "that's just the way they come to us".