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Hello everyone. Something happened to me yesterday that I would like some education on. I went Discount Tire to have a set of wheels that I was looking at test fitted. The service technician drove the car over the lift. Everything seemed fine. He then started opening my doors, unlatching my t-tops, and popped my hood. He saw the weird look on my face and proceeded to explain to me about how there was a Corvette that suffered damage before by cracking and this is the procedure that his manager insists on for all Corvettes. Well that blew me away but I let him proceed. they put blocks under the frame rails and proceeded to lift slowly. To my surprise I was like WTF:surprised Looking at the car from a side view you could see the door gap widen between the door and the front quarter panel and if you look in the space there was some kind of separation. If you follow the window frame rail down where the hood comes over it's like there was this big gap. They put a jack under the front just to make me feel better because I was tripping out thinking that the car was gonna break especially after what they told me. When the car was on the ground all was normal. Does everyone experience this and how do you even put it on jack stands? I was gonna do some work on the car on my own, but this has me kind of nervous. Thanks for reading my long post and thanks for any input on this matter.