Certainly an area I'll be looking at closely before accepting my car next week.
The theory that the decrease in the panel clearance on the left hand side may be due to the way the fasteners turn seems credible, too, especially if the front wings are bolted on by assembly robots. Interesting reading about some of the paint defects found, and that some may relate to the way the paint robots may have been programmed, so may well only effect earlier cars produced. That does raise the question about quality control, though, and how effectively cars are inspected during manufacture and before delivery. Fixing defects like these once the cars have been shipped half way around the world has to be an expensive way to do this, far better the work at getting the "right first time" process fixed.
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