Can someone give me some definitive signs of a bent or twisted unibody?

The reason I ask is because I heard that the unibody needs to be straighten out before welding on subframe connectors (which makes sense), and that got me thinking about what problems something like that might cause.

I'm thinking mine might be slightly twisted because I noticed that the window on the passenger side door is not fully sealed by the weather stripping and causes leaks unless the window is rolled up as tight as possible. On the other hand, my driver side window seems to protrude too far into the weather stripping, and there is rather large overlap (maybe a few 2 or 3 cm) of it over the window when the door is closed.

The car has never been in a major wreck or even in smaller fender bender type accident as far as I know, but I did slightly bump the nose to the back of another lady's car when I first bought it (by bump I mean I was traveling at maybe 5-10MPH) and it chipped a large portion of the paint. Didn't seem to cause any structural damage though.

After a search, the few posts that I've found have concluded that unibody frame straightening is a very costly procedure--I was reading one post that said some guy spent $8000 just to straighten it out! If that's the case, I'm gonna be SOL.

Any information appreciated.

 

Last time I wanted one straightened, it cost 300 some-odd dollars.... and that car was wrecked so bad that all 4 wheels wouldn't even sit on the ground at the same time, and the car was about a foot out of square. I can't imagine how it's even possible to spend $8000 on that. It's an extremely common body shop procedure.

Your doors and windows have at least a half-dozen adjustments to make them fit to the body and then for the windows to roll up right; after you replace your hinge pins (which is probably why they don't strike right any more) you can easily dial them in perfectly. That has relatively little to do with the body being bent.

 

Ahh... thanks for clearing that up, RB. You have no idea how much that relieves me.

I think I will still have it checked out "just in case." I have close to no knowledge of unibody design or windows, so perhaps you can see why I might have made that conclusion? Probably not.

Anyway, thanks again.