Door alignment.

[Notch000]

Hi,
I replaced my front wing and the new wing is catching the door slightly. The wing fits good otherwise and I don't think there is an more room to move the wing, The door is too far forward looking at the gaps., is there a way to adjust his gap ?
ideally i like to move the door back towards the rear a mm or so

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YYs3DBLqhQsK4V7s8

Buenos Estente
Notch000

[MKVASMR]

In my eyes the fender looks to far up but yes. You can adjust the doors. In every directions actually. It's quite self-explanatory when you look at the front hinges.

[dennis10]

On page 2 of this forum I posted asking for advice about almost exactly the same thing:

https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,134703.0.html

I worked out that the wing at the bottom can have the bottom bolts behind the arch liner loosened, then pull the bottom of the wing away from the door and insert something in the panel gap so it doesn't go back again while you re-tighten the bolts.  This worked perfectly for me - The arches were replaced on mine and not quite adjusted properly.

Personally I wouldn't touch the adjustment of the doors, since the change you made was to the wing and not the door, the fault lies with the wing fitment, not the door - Don't break what doesn't need fixing, you'll just have more headaches.  Adjust the wing properly and pull it away from the door, then retighten the bolts.  You may need to do more than just the bottom bolts on yours to get the adjustment you need, but mine was fine with just the bottom ones.