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door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:36 am
by 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?
Re: door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:00 pm
by 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.
Re: door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:24 pm
by no2lurch
yeah i will. i didnt know if anything was prone to specific problems.
Re: door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:29 pm
by 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...
Re: door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:33 pm
by teamster1975
Usully the check strap, dob some grease on there!
Re: door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:22 pm
by Gary406
ye mine was same few months back i used sum lithium 2 grease or somthing like that .
Re: door closing become hard
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:06 pm
by 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.