Jonathan
07-01-2011, 11:02 AM
I am getting the feeling that a lot of this stuff is interconnected ;)
I felt inspired last night to take another stab at my door alignment. Driver's door not too bad, passenger door though clunks a bit. Took both striker pins out completely on the passenger door and tested how well it closes. Feeling some interference with the main piece of weather striping that goes all the way around the door opening, so I took it out too. It wasn't in there 100% all the way, which this is related to.
The door closed pretty well. I put the rear striker pin in with one washer. My passenger door for some reason seems to need to get pushed forward towards the front of the car as it closes. And you can actually see where one of the two screw tops on the rear door latch has scratched a groove in the fiberglas. I needed three washers in the front striker pin to get the head of the pin into the latch properly. All in all, it's actually closing pretty well now. It doesn't spring up like maybe it should... I attribute that to my torsion bars needing one more click of tension.
So here's where I was thinking my car doesn't look exactly like some of your cars. I recall when I put the weather striping on last season, that the edge where the V groove on the bottom of the weather striping is supposed to snuggle over and clip into place is a bit too wide. I saw some posts in the past on dremelling the edge down slightly to make it fit better. The thing is, I wonder if my whole vertical edge on the rear of the door opening has been coated with something in an effort to fix the fit of the rear interior trim panel (the one which the seatbelt comes through and also the rear speaker is in it) as well as fixing a loose arm rest bolster.
My pictures show the passenger side with the weather striping off, and you can see this "coating" clearly starting towards the top of the door opening and continuing down to beyond the bolster. While it's all in there nice and snug, I now wonder how the heck I would get it apart again as I have the seatbelt replacement kit to put in and was considering working on my speakers. The passenger side bolster got one of those replacement caps and is on there secure, but the driver's side is another story. That bolster was loose when I got the car and was RTV'ed in the interim. You can see where my thumb is how it is easily separated.
1) How is that rear interior trim panel supposed to be secured into place? And how do you normally take it out?
2) Does the weather striping edge look like it has a coating on it? Or is that factory?
Passenger side:
2002
1997
1998
Driver's side:
1999
2000
2001
I felt inspired last night to take another stab at my door alignment. Driver's door not too bad, passenger door though clunks a bit. Took both striker pins out completely on the passenger door and tested how well it closes. Feeling some interference with the main piece of weather striping that goes all the way around the door opening, so I took it out too. It wasn't in there 100% all the way, which this is related to.
The door closed pretty well. I put the rear striker pin in with one washer. My passenger door for some reason seems to need to get pushed forward towards the front of the car as it closes. And you can actually see where one of the two screw tops on the rear door latch has scratched a groove in the fiberglas. I needed three washers in the front striker pin to get the head of the pin into the latch properly. All in all, it's actually closing pretty well now. It doesn't spring up like maybe it should... I attribute that to my torsion bars needing one more click of tension.
So here's where I was thinking my car doesn't look exactly like some of your cars. I recall when I put the weather striping on last season, that the edge where the V groove on the bottom of the weather striping is supposed to snuggle over and clip into place is a bit too wide. I saw some posts in the past on dremelling the edge down slightly to make it fit better. The thing is, I wonder if my whole vertical edge on the rear of the door opening has been coated with something in an effort to fix the fit of the rear interior trim panel (the one which the seatbelt comes through and also the rear speaker is in it) as well as fixing a loose arm rest bolster.
My pictures show the passenger side with the weather striping off, and you can see this "coating" clearly starting towards the top of the door opening and continuing down to beyond the bolster. While it's all in there nice and snug, I now wonder how the heck I would get it apart again as I have the seatbelt replacement kit to put in and was considering working on my speakers. The passenger side bolster got one of those replacement caps and is on there secure, but the driver's side is another story. That bolster was loose when I got the car and was RTV'ed in the interim. You can see where my thumb is how it is easily separated.
1) How is that rear interior trim panel supposed to be secured into place? And how do you normally take it out?
2) Does the weather striping edge look like it has a coating on it? Or is that factory?
Passenger side:
2002
1997
1998
Driver's side:
1999
2000
2001