Hi All,
Two questions. Has anyone noticed if your rocker panels just in front of the rear wheel have a small indentation or two? Does anyone have a diagram from the shop manual showing how the rocker panels are anchored on the car?
I have 2 tiny dents on the driver side and one on the passenger side within the same area (where the rocker panels curve out a little to stay with the shape of the body of the car, right in front of the rear wheel arch). I noticed them ~ a month ago when the GT was on the lift and the rocker panels were at eye level. My initial thought was that the small dents perhaps were caused by me taking the apexes a bit aggressive and ran over the cone, and maybe the rubber base of the cones bounced up and hit the rocker panels, when I used to take the GT on trackdays (haven’t done it with the GT for a few years now, since I bought the Ariel Atom for track duties and an Exige before the Atom…). Anyway, I had a paintless-dent vendor came over the house to remove these tiny dents. Upon inspecting the rocker panels, he said these small indentations are instead probably caused by the anchor brackets beneath the panels because 1. The “dents” look like they are being pulled in, hence he thinks when the car was being assembled, the anchor bolts might have been put on a tad too tightly, and 2. If the dents were caused by me hitting the rubber cones, there should have been some marking on the protective film, which there isn’t any; plus, the rocker panels can not be dented by hitting something because the rocker panels are plastic.
Now I’m curious if other GTs also have these tiny “dents” at the curve section of the rocker panels. And, if the paintless dent guy is correct, I should be able to bring the GT to the dealer and have them to “relax” the anchor brackets inside the panels, right? Thoughts?
Thx
GTED
Two questions. Has anyone noticed if your rocker panels just in front of the rear wheel have a small indentation or two? Does anyone have a diagram from the shop manual showing how the rocker panels are anchored on the car?
I have 2 tiny dents on the driver side and one on the passenger side within the same area (where the rocker panels curve out a little to stay with the shape of the body of the car, right in front of the rear wheel arch). I noticed them ~ a month ago when the GT was on the lift and the rocker panels were at eye level. My initial thought was that the small dents perhaps were caused by me taking the apexes a bit aggressive and ran over the cone, and maybe the rubber base of the cones bounced up and hit the rocker panels, when I used to take the GT on trackdays (haven’t done it with the GT for a few years now, since I bought the Ariel Atom for track duties and an Exige before the Atom…). Anyway, I had a paintless-dent vendor came over the house to remove these tiny dents. Upon inspecting the rocker panels, he said these small indentations are instead probably caused by the anchor brackets beneath the panels because 1. The “dents” look like they are being pulled in, hence he thinks when the car was being assembled, the anchor bolts might have been put on a tad too tightly, and 2. If the dents were caused by me hitting the rubber cones, there should have been some marking on the protective film, which there isn’t any; plus, the rocker panels can not be dented by hitting something because the rocker panels are plastic.
Now I’m curious if other GTs also have these tiny “dents” at the curve section of the rocker panels. And, if the paintless dent guy is correct, I should be able to bring the GT to the dealer and have them to “relax” the anchor brackets inside the panels, right? Thoughts?
Thx
GTED
