door closing become hard

[no2lurch]

on my w reg estate (d9) the rear drivers door has gone stiff all of a sudden and you cant just fling it shut. it has to be pushed to.

is it that the hinges need attention, or the check strap?

[steve_earwig]

Check strap, catch, hinges... I can't tell from here but would be worth oiling things one at a time to see what makes a difference.

[no2lurch]

yeah i will. i didnt know if anything was prone to specific problems.

[steve_earwig]

Just as an afterthought, I bought some spray grease the other day and sprayed all my locks, straps and hinges and suddenly shutting them sounds much less like the "clang!" of a soul-less Japanese dullmobile...

[teamster1975]

Usully the check strap, dob some grease on there!

[Gary406]

ye mine was same few months back i used sum lithium 2 grease or somthing like that .

[Welly]

It would be worth cleaning all the old crap off first and starting again with a nice clingy greasy/silicony stuff.

My back doors were always like this and oiling them seemed to make little difference it was bad enough that my kids couldn't close them from inside the car, like they were stuck open.