hanging a door properly

any tips to get fit rigth panel gap etc

Half way down the page in the link below. Trial and error, but if the door is not too far out this worked every time for me……..

Door adjustments

nice site just oen washer or keep addign them?

I had to stick two washers in the top hinge of my drivers door, worked a treat as it was catching the striker plate now it shuts sweet and lines up perfect.

There are other extreme methods such as jacking up the door on a block of wood and bouncing on the sill of the car    sounds extreme but it does work. All depends which shut lines are out on the door of course.

89Rallye said

I had to stick two washers in the top hinge of my drivers door, worked a treat as it was catching the striker plate now it shuts sweet and lines up perfect.

There are other extreme methods such as jacking up the door on a block of wood and bouncing on the sill of the car    sounds extreme but it does work. All depends which shut lines are out on the door of course.

Jacking/bouncing can be done to good effect, but should only be required if the door's frame is strained from people swinging/hanging on the door, otherwise the washer in the top hinge is a better method.

Assuming the frame is straight, there is an even better method, if you can still(?) get the hinge-plates and pins from VAG. They are a bit of a pain to fit because you need to take the door off the car (hassle if you have speakers/elec windows/central locking wiring), but the results are perfection  8)  .

i had a bit of trouble lining up a door on a recent project, even though the pair were originally off the same car one turned out to be over 5mm longer than the other.  which was nice.

parkandride said

i had a bit of trouble lining up a door on a recent project, even though the pair were originally off the same car one turned out to be over 5mm longer than the other.  which was nice.

Sounds like one of them might be a pattern (replacement) door…   

i did not no they made pattern doors, i doubt it is, even though it's smaller.  could have had a new skin?

well im afraid its bad news door blew open and now the bottom is to low its sags im so unhappy and dunnoi what to do! :cry:

This because the body of the door around the hinges is a little bent, or the L-shaped brackets on the A-pillar ar a little bent (or a bit of both).

You need to examine the area carefully, to see which bits need bending back.

Hopefully it's the L-brackets, because they can be bent by you, using a plumber's wrench, after you've taken the door off.

If it's the body of the door, it's a bit more tricky, and you'd be better off bringing it to a body shop, unless you're familiar with work like this, as it's easy to make marks in the rear of the door-skin, causing "pimples" on the other side