04 GT front quarter panel question

Since this is my firts mustang, I have a question about my front
quarter panels.

On EVERY other car I have had, the front quarter panels have no "give"
in them. The ones on my 04 GT do. If you apply a little pressure in
the area of the quarter panel where the antenna is, the panel will
move. I guess the best way to describe this is the gap between the
panel and the hood will get smaller, and noticibly. I really want to
believe, based on past car experiences that this is not normal, and I
have a problem. I have scheduled an appt. with my local dealer to have
this taken care of under warranty, just in case.

So are my fears correct? Do I have some sort of issue with this car?
FWIW, it has 16k miles, and no accidents since I have owned it, or
according to carfax.

Thanks for any info.

Brian

04 GT
Stock
(well, tinted windows)

I went to a dealer and checked every single pre 05 mustang they had.
Each one does it. I do not like it one bit. It just seems cheap-o to
me.

Brian
karinhall wrote:
> > wrote in message ups.com...
> > Since this is my firts mustang, I have a question about my front
> > quarter panels.
> >
> > On EVERY other car I have had, the front quarter panels have no "give"
> > in them. The ones on my 04 GT do. If you apply a little pressure in
> > the area of the quarter panel where the antenna is, the panel will
> > move. I guess the best way to describe this is the gap between the
> > panel and the hood will get smaller, and noticibly. I really want to
> > believe, based on past car experiences that this is not normal, and I
> > have a problem. I have scheduled an appt. with my local dealer to have
> > this taken care of under warranty, just in case.
> >
> > So are my fears correct? Do I have some sort of issue with this car?
> > FWIW, it has 16k miles, and no accidents since I have owned it, or
> > according to carfax.
> >
> > Thanks for any info.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > 04 GT
> > Stock
> > (well, tinted windows)
> >
> Well, I wasn't going to respond to this thread, but I just went out and checked my '04 Mach 1, and indeed it does move in and out by almost an 1/8th of an inch! I didn't expect that, but it must be some sort of new Ford "soft mounting" of fenders! :-D Maybe in response to Saturn's plastic "no dent" fenders??
> Probably not a problem, but I hadn't noticed this on any other car.