Your car is made of plastic -- yes, this is bad (should you ultimately rip the stud out of the pontoon altogether, I think Rob Grady has an oversized repair kit but you'll have to remove the headliner to install). Your door struts are probably too long or too strong (remember: torsion bars open the doors, not the struts). DML had a long thread this summer on the same topic. I don't want to restart that vendor vs vendor discussion, but FWIW my Grady struts are excellent. Of course they wouldn't be worth a darn without my torsion bar adjustments (thanks Dave!). Buy a known suitable set of struts from an honest to goodness DeLorean vendor. If your doors continue to sag, get an experienced adjuster to tighten the torsion bars. Your ball studs (and the pontoon) will thank you. Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "C. C. Cameron Putsch" <putsch.1@xxxx> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone of you have noticed that the ball mount for your door strut that mounts to the roof is bending away from the strut under pressure. Is this a very bad thing, meaning it will break in the future. Should I replace something or modify it? > > Casey at putsch.1@xxxx > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]