Author Topic: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!  (Read 3750 times)

Offline Khare

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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.



Step two: Close the door slightly so the bolt makes some pressure on the door and doesnt fall down. Like so



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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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #1 on: 08 June 2009, 22:27 »
So what exactly is been bent here?

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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #2 on: 08 June 2009, 22:34 »
its for when the door drops down, common problem on mk3 and mk4!

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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #3 on: 08 June 2009, 22:43 »
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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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #4 on: 08 June 2009, 22:44 »
no idea dude, but it works!  :grin:

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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #5 on: 08 June 2009, 22:44 »
lol furry muff.  :laugh:

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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #6 on: 08 June 2009, 22:51 »
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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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #7 on: 08 June 2009, 22:53 »
^^ 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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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #8 on: 08 June 2009, 23:02 »
Pffft...it's all about the Dukes Of Hazard look.

Get welding guys!

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Re: How to align a saggy and dropped door, with pics!
« Reply #9 on: 09 June 2009, 06:44 »
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