Rear hatch "tab"

[Galaxybj]

Well, I need to know if anyone has experienced this and how it was repaired - I went to open the rear hatch one day recently and the right side "sagged" and scraped a bit on the roof. I took it apart today and discovered the "tab" on the hatch is flexing where the welds hold it to the hatch. It has not broken the welds completely loose, but it certainly needs to be repaired. Any one out there see this and how was it repaired? Is it fairly straight forward for a body shop to repair? Thanks in advance.

[Arne]

Seems fairly common, these days. The used hatch I bought for my first 240Z (Series 1) had had both tabs re-welded before I bought it. And the left side was flexing and breaking on the red car when I got it as well, and it was a low mileage, never abused car.

I had a local body/paint shop re-weld the one on the red car. He removed the hatch from the car and ran a bead all the way around the tab, then coated the repair with POR. When I had him paint the whole car 18 months later (after the roof re-skin to remove the sunroof), he painted the underside of the hatch while he had it off.