Door Hinges

[nimike]

Anyone got any tips on how to grease these bad boys and what to use?

Thanks

Mike

[bangernom1cs]

HI,

I use white grease aerosol or copper grease. Make sure you get a can with an extension straw
to get right in, especially the rear door check straps as these have rollers which sieze up rapidly.
Work them back and to a couple of times adding grease as you go.
There's many a 406 taxi with flappy back doors because of this.
My first D8 rear doors had never been opened hardly as it was a company car presumeably
with a 1 only driver as the seats were all perfect except the drivers. It took nearly 2 years of
greasing and everyday useage to get them to work correctly.
Getting the same prob now on my D9 too also.

T

[swiss]

Yeah, my rear doors groan and complain no matter how much I grease and work the hinges, but again they don't get a whole lot of use

[eoin27]

This should help alleviate the situation. Grease those bad boys up before installation and you will certainly have years of trouble free door opening pleasure

[swiss]

Nice. I'll add two of those to the List ^_^

[jasper5]

Hinges or checkstraps?

I find the best thing to do with hinges, is to spray a good dose of WD40 into the hinge and work the door back and forth until the door feels a little easier, then use some oil on them, working the door back and forth.

As for checkstraps, give them a real good greasing with multipurpose grease and work the door back and forth until you feel a difference, keep lots of grease on the sliding bits and the curved bit and you'll be fine.
The only time I have needed to change the checkstraps is when the strap has actually broken.

[skylinemv]

Just had one of my rears pop the circlip and roller out due to lack of lube.
stripped it out and carried out a refit and re-grease. All okay :-)