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I have the painted bumper with tow hooks and I have this issue. I can stick one finger under the headlight fender in the passenger side but I can't get the same finger under the driver side fender. It appears that the passenger side gap is larger than the driver side in most cases.
Its not the bumper....its the grill. Look at your hood gap. Another member had his fixed with a grill adjustment; there is another thread about this. Mine has it as well and after taking measurements I have no doubt it is the grill and not the bumper. As soon as I get some time I'm going to take mine apart and adjust it (if the dealer wont do it for me). When I get to doing it; I'll take some pictures and post them.
I just noticed my limited has the exact same issue on the passenger side. Let us know how you make out with the grill adjustment. I certainly don't want to have someone widening the holes for the bumper mount.
I got the grill adjusted tonight; now my hood gap is even. I had a tough time removing the fascia that covers the grill bolts. The grill was definitely out of alignment. Interestingly, I found a 1/8" spacer laying on top of the bumper under the fascia. I'm pretty sure that spacer was supposed to be used to align the grill and/or bumper....I just don't know where it should go. Who knows, maybe it was a headlight spacer. I'm going to finish up tomorrow and put everything back together. My bumper is off a bit as well but I'm not sure I'll be able to adjust it. When it's all done I'll post some pictures.
Well, I sort of got it worked out. I adjusted the driver's side of the grill upward; which evened the hood gap and lessened the difference in the fascia panels. You now have to look really close to see the difference. The hood gap is now perfect (like it should have been from the factory); the fascia gaps from left to right are still not perfect. However, I can now look at the front of my truck without having and OCD attack. It actually took a bit of tweaking with the grill bolts and the hood stops to get everything right. The "beaver cheeks" or fascia panels are not adjustable; so I don't know how the body shop is going to do that....they snap into the grill and fender. In addition, I didn't see a way of adjusting the grill out unless you were to shim it. The gaps in my headlight trim are even now as well. I still can't get the fascia panels exact in comparison to each other; but the difference is less than 1/8" inch now where before it was over 1/2" difference. After taking measurements of the panels, I swear that there is a manufacturing error in the fascia panels and they are not the exact same size. Here is a picture of the main grill bolt so you can see how far I actually had to move it up (notice the wear from initial installation):
Mine goes in tomorrow. This is very helpful.
