If you fail the "bounce test" how screwed are you? Options

[McLovin]

Question for the group:

The bounce test is when you open all the doors, take off the roof, and jump up and down on the passenger side. Then you try to close the doors and see if they close easily.

Suppose your car fails the bounce test. It's clear that the car would need major surgery in the form of rust repair and reinforcing. But if you do the bounce test and fail, did you just bend the car? Is straightening it as simple as putting a jack under it? Or would you need to do something more elaborate?

Has anyone been down that road?

Thanks,

Mclovin

[mbseto]

Based on one data point, I'm going to say yes you bent the car. I went in the opposite direction: jacked the car at the jack point and when it came down, the door gap was closed at the bottom. When I got around to repairing the long, it was clearly bent. What there was of it.