TruNk swap gone wrong

[svgnewbie]

Any idea on how to fix the gap?

[tommi]

loosen the 4 bolts and pull it over a little bit??

[Tippey764]

As tommi said the bolt holes are slightly larger than the bolts going through them. This is to allow for adjustments to fix gaps like you have.

[svgnewbie]

did that, but nothing changed

[Fleetw00d]

Is it lined up like that just before hitting the latch? Or only after the latch catches? The latch in the trunk lid is adjustable. If it is not the latch, and the hinge bolts won't allow it to move, you can CAREFULLY push the trunk lid in the desired direction when open to "adjust" the hinge beams.

[thepowderblue]

Adjust the latch. Move it to what ever side and tighten it trust me
The latch will pull it where it needs to go.

[dvswoo]

I put a new trunk on my EJ Civic and had the same problem. You will have to do as the others have said, adjust the latch and/or the screws on the arms. Doing a combination of these will get it square.

[visualpoet]

Not what I expected to see when I read 'truck swap'

How jacked up was that trunk lid before? It looks like a lot of body filler on it, you might have to tweak the hinge bars as fleetw00d said.

[crazymikey]

There's not much room to play with side to side adjustment on the trunk bolts.

90% of the trunk alignment is with the latch.

I think I did my most recent trunk swap in about 20-30 minutes and it lined up and latched the first try.

[rexload]

Are you sanding all that bondo by hand? You need to get a basic $30 sander.

[blk91coupe]

An auto body shop made the holes a little bigger on the hinge beams on my dad's 90 accord trunk to make it fit better. It wasn't the original trunk either.

[jewelproject]

that gap is as ugly as a wheel gap.