General Panel Gaps

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General Panel Gaps

Stupid question, but can this happen in the factory, like it could've always been like this? I've cleared out the sealant just now that I thought was drawing my eye to it, but still looks quite gappy.
I've just read online about a turn stop inside the hood of 500s. Anybody any clue what this is so I know what to look for? Can't see an example elsewhere
 
Panel gap out of factory will be perfect like in my silver pictures very early in this post, have to say yours don't look correct, what the cause is can't say but would have the bumper removed the check both bumper fixing points/tabs and the wing fixing points-to-bumper, could be a simple remove and refit?
Turn stop usually is to adjust the bonnet height when closed.
 
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If I was to leave it until I'm back my holidays in the July, would the tabs stretch or break in that time? Or could it be removed then and re-fitted without breaking anything?

I've cleaned out the sealant and it doesn't look AS BAD and the angle I take it affects how it looks.

Last photo is the passenger side which isn't as bad, but still a pain.
 

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Definitely not in the time that I've had it, which was just a year last week. When my partner had it at his garage a few weeks for the knocking when going over bumps, he asked the mechanic there if it looked from underneath if it'd ever been bumped in an accident, he said no, everything from the paint looked original and all inside the bumper. I did a check online for like £10 last month and it has no record of being in any accidents. Just getting stressed now that everything seems to be happening to my car.

I'm obsessed and take excellent care of it, or at least try to, so really frustrating.
 
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