Door Alignment
Discussion
I'm just running through my list of jobs to do before we get into some serious driving and the door alignment is next on the list, so my questions are:-
1. Has anyone done this themselves.
2. If so do you have any tips and pictures of hinge positions etc..
3. Were you successful.
My door has droped by about a cm or so and may also need some shims taking out on the top hinge to pull the mirror position in a touch. I don't normally shy away from jobs and I'm quite patient and persitent, or is that just a bit of a tight wad!
Thanks for any help.
PS. Please try and resist the temptation to say that you haven't any experience of this job but you heard it's a right pig, I already know this bit.
1. Has anyone done this themselves.
2. If so do you have any tips and pictures of hinge positions etc..
3. Were you successful.
My door has droped by about a cm or so and may also need some shims taking out on the top hinge to pull the mirror position in a touch. I don't normally shy away from jobs and I'm quite patient and persitent, or is that just a bit of a tight wad!
Thanks for any help.
PS. Please try and resist the temptation to say that you haven't any experience of this job but you heard it's a right pig, I already know this bit.
T17VER said:
I haven't had any experience of this but i've heard it's a right pig to do!!!
Ha Bloody Ha Craig! Just for that I might have to get you to come round and lend a hand!Smartypants, I've been told by a couple of TVR places that it could take about 2 - 4 hours of messing about and even then you might not get it back perfectly. It's just wiggling about and tightening nuts afterall!! Famous last words when a TVR is involved!
I have had to align my passenger door as the bottom outer edge always stuck proud of the body, to such a degree that the door switch was never depressed and courtesy light was always on.
I had to add a shim to the top hinge to bring the bottom inwards......... in doing so the whole door needed re-aligning.
The four hinge nuts are a bit fiddly to access and you need a trolley jack to support the door's weight whilst your fiddling about, but I didn't think it was too bad a job to do. There is a lot of trail and error involved though
I'd say go for it
I had to add a shim to the top hinge to bring the bottom inwards......... in doing so the whole door needed re-aligning.
The four hinge nuts are a bit fiddly to access and you need a trolley jack to support the door's weight whilst your fiddling about, but I didn't think it was too bad a job to do. There is a lot of trail and error involved though
I'd say go for it
peaktorque said:
I have had to align my passenger door as the bottom outer edge always stuck proud of the body, to such a degree that the door switch was never depressed and courtesy light was always on.
I had to add a shim to the top hinge to bring the bottom inwards......... in doing so the whole door needed re-aligning.
The four hinge nuts are a bit fiddly to access and you need a trolley jack to support the door's weight whilst your fiddling about, but I didn't think it was too bad a job to do. There is a lot of trail and error involved though
I'd say go for it
I think I'll defo give this a go!! By the way what did you use as a shim and did you take any pictures whilst you were doing it?I had to add a shim to the top hinge to bring the bottom inwards......... in doing so the whole door needed re-aligning.
The four hinge nuts are a bit fiddly to access and you need a trolley jack to support the door's weight whilst your fiddling about, but I didn't think it was too bad a job to do. There is a lot of trail and error involved though
I'd say go for it
fog66 said:
I think I'll defo give this a go!! By the way what did you use as a shim and did you take any pictures whilst you were doing it?
Sorry no pics.The shims are made of ali, they are slotted (more of a U shape) so you can add/remove without completely un-doing the nuts. I pulled one of the originals out and used it as a template to cut a couple of new ones out of a sheet of aluminum I've got in the garage.
I had to unstick a bit of carpet from the footwell to access the bottom nuts so you may also need a bit of 'special TVR glue' to stick it back down afterwards.
peaktorque said:
Sorry no pics.
The shims are made of ali, they are slotted (more of a U shape) so you can add/remove without completely un-doing the nuts. I pulled one of the originals out and used it as a template to cut a couple of new ones out of a sheet of aluminum I've got in the garage.
I had to unstick a bit of carpet from the footwell to access the bottom nuts so you may also need a bit of 'special TVR glue' to stick it back down afterwards.
Cheers.The shims are made of ali, they are slotted (more of a U shape) so you can add/remove without completely un-doing the nuts. I pulled one of the originals out and used it as a template to cut a couple of new ones out of a sheet of aluminum I've got in the garage.
I had to unstick a bit of carpet from the footwell to access the bottom nuts so you may also need a bit of 'special TVR glue' to stick it back down afterwards.
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