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General => The garage => Topic started by: Khare on 08 June 2009, 22:23
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Right, only thing you need it a wheel bolt.
Step one: Place it in the BOTTOM hinge of the door, hold it there with your hand like this.
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh115/kharekatoh/08062009047.jpg)
Step two: Close the door slightly so the bolt makes some pressure on the door and doesnt fall down. Like so
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh115/kharekatoh/08062009048.jpg)
Step 3: All you need to do now, is using both hands, gently and steady force the door closed. Obviously it will not close, due to the bolt being stuck in the hinge, just keep forcing it slowly, it will need some decent pressure to do this, dont under do it and obviously dont over do it.
After a little bit of pressure, open the door, let the bolt drop, and close the door, see if its any better. Keep doing this until you're happy with the results, I repeated steps 1, 2 and 3 about four or five times until I was happy with the alignment of the door...
If you over do it, and raise the door too much, then do the same procedure, but on the UPPER hinge to bring the door down again.
You do not need to losen up anything, just wheel bolt in the hinge, and push the door close, and repeat untl happy.
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT responsible if you mess this up, this is a guide for those willing to take responsibility. I have done this myself and so have afew others, it has worked perfectly wel and it does no damage to anything (except remove some paint from the hinge, but nothing to worry about, you could always apply some paint with a small brush if you wish).
Khare
PS: Surely this is a sticky! :cool:
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So what exactly is been bent here?
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its for when the door drops down, common problem on mk3 and mk4!
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Yeah I know, quite a few of the ones I looked at before i bought mine were drooping like grannies b00bs. I was just interested into what exactly was been bent in the process of raising the doors by wedging that wheel bolt in the panel gap, or is it sliding the hinge along on it's fixing point?
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no idea dude, but it works! :grin:
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lol furry muff. :laugh:
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If the door is dropping then you may or will find a hinge pin is worn, might be better to replace or check first.
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^^ very true, but most of the time is just saggy due to age and not worn parts. I would try the alignment my way before dismantling the hinge :wink:
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Pffft...it's all about the Dukes Of Hazard look.
Get welding guys!
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another way is just to open the door by about a foot, and jack the end of the door up with a block of wood (dosent damage paint work) and it will lift up the whole car, raise it up and then lower it and keep checking to see if its any better, if not raise it higher next time
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most of the time is just saggy due to age and not worn parts
So as a component gets older it doesn't suffer from any wear?
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most of the time is just saggy due to age and not worn parts
So as a component gets older it doesn't suffer from any wear?
as an old cnut. i would say things wear :grin: :laugh:
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most of the time is just saggy due to age and not worn parts
So as a component gets older it doesn't suffer from any wear?
It does suffer wear ofcourse, but the hinge pin being worn is less common than sag due to the weight of the door.
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most of the time is just saggy due to age and not worn parts
So as a component gets older it doesn't suffer from any wear?
It does suffer wear ofcourse, but the hinge pin being worn is less common than sag due to the weight of the door.
I would say hinge pin wear is a lot more common, my 5door had loads of wear in the top pin on the drivers door, you could lift the door up and down and see the play in the pin.
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if you have a 16v the best fix to to remove the mk3 and replace it with a mk2
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:grin: