A very common zed body work issue is the alignment of the front wing where it meets the door and more so lower down at the sill.

Check out the pictures below the first showing how bad it can look, the problem is caused by damage to the lower part of the wing where it is fixed to the sill.

 

The damage can be cause in accidents but in the main is due to badly placed trolley jacks, tyre bays been the worst culprits.

 

The good news the fix is relatively easy, in the case shown a simple redressing of the wing fixing is all that was required, a flat bolster chisel is ideal and as the lower wing / sill start to move back in place it is easy to judge how far to go.

 

Take a look at the last two pictures, they show the how much improved the wing gap looks after just a minutes of tapping and aligning, remember of course to clean and re-coat the sill edge if any underseal is damaged, of course some damage can be worse than this and takes a bit more work but definitely worth it.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good tip Jeff, I had to do this on both the zed's i've had!

I got the same damage on my 300 (not as bad tho). Gonna look tomorrow and check if mine is out-of-line. Nice easy fix there Jeff, top bloke!!

 

Al.

the zx jack is an evil tool which imho should only be used if you have nothing else stuck on the side of the road...it rips the bottom lip to hell:nono::(

the zx jack is an evil tool which imho should only be used if you have nothing else stuck on the side of the road...it rips the bottom lip to hell:nono::(

 

Yer sticking it in the wrong place matey:tt2: Jack it up on the slot under the door not the wing :winkiss:

Good tip there for LeoE who now has my old zed, the small dent in the lower part of the wing used to annoy the hell out of me but i never knew the best way to approach it.

Yer sticking it in the wrong place matey:tt2: Jack it up on the slot under the door not the wing :winkiss:

 

:rofl::rofl: i know where it goes mate but others dont..thats the problem

:rofl::rofl: i know where it goes mate but others dont..thats the problem

 

very true, seems such a common problem that I bet some people think it's a factory standard :chris:

hi,my uk z has the same problem.i always knew it wasn`t accident damaged cos i`ve got full service history and 3 hpi reports from various years.now i know excellent stuff many thanks