My hood is lined up nicely with both fenders and both headlights, and at the corner of the bumper skin where the driver's side turn signal is. On the passenger's side however, there's a good 3/8" gap between the hood and the bumper skin, right above the turn signal. The bumper skin feels nice and tight so I doubt it has just loosened. Can that one section of the bumper skin be pulled inline while leaving the rest alone? As well, the gap between the bumper skin and the fender is slightly larger (less than 1/8") on the passenger's side than the driver's side. How can I fix this? I'll try to get some pics. Any ideas?

 

Can you post a picture of the exact are you're describing. Did my Camaro wing today...extreme sumbeech!

 

Figures, it looks fine in this pic... lol Standing above the hood this gap is far more noticable.

Okay, white circle: There's a good 3/8"-1/2" gap here between the bumper skin and the hood, tapering down to a little over 1/8" on the other side (which looks normal).

Red circle: There's a gap of around 1/8"-3/16" between the bumper skin and the fender, while the other side is almost tight together.

The hood lines up properly with both fenders and both headlight covers. Oh and don't mind that paint chip, that was fixed last fall.

Any ideas?

 

I think there are two (easyish) ways of adjusting the panel gaps.

1. Loosen off the bolts holding the hood brackets. You don't need to detatch the hood struts but put the broom stick handle that all thirdgen owners have under the front of the hood. You can shift the hood around a few mm.

2. Loosen off the fender bolts under the hood and push that sucker around. Have a helping hand with an air wrench to bolt it down tight whilst you're leaning or pulling on the panel. try not to dent the fender.

BTW, I don't think the panel gaps on these cars were ever perfect from new.