[DML] Sloppy doors; Was: Door Locks Locking Up?

["cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave T,

I have noticed that my doors, (driver's especially) "shake" when I 
drive over bumps. I even noticed my "door ajar" light briefly come on 
when taking a hard, right curve. The door is completely latched and 
lines up perfectly with the rest of the body when shut. The door 
latches as you described below. It should, you adjusted it for me at 
the Spring Social. ;-)

Is this a case of flat seals, or should the striker pins be moved in-
ward just a bit?

Thanks,
Rich A.
#5335

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx> 
wrote:
> You figured out what I have been trying to tell most people on the
> DML. You MUST have the door closed in the "second" latching 
position.
> BOTH LATCHES MUST be in 2nd position to lock. If you try to lock the
> door with either latch NOT in 2nd position you bend, stretch, and
> force things out of adjustment. The doors are NOT SUPPOSED to be 
able
> to be locked unless you are in 2nd position. If it won't lock easily
> it is trying to tell you that. Before you can do the door 
adjustments
> you need to have the doors close properly. You CANNOT compensate for
> old, flat door seals by adjusting the locking anchor pins. Lockzilla
> says it cannot compensate for out-of-adjustment doors and bad
> solenoids so you should have known it would not "fix" your problems.
> As you close the door SLOWLY you can hear and feel the latches as 
they
> catch in the first locking position and then (if everything is
> adjusted correctly) the 2nd locking position. Slamming the door will
> not make it work, in fact that is how you can jam it. The other 
thing
> I see all too often is that the head of the anchor pins hit the 
door.
> This pushes the door foward or back as the case may be making it 
hard
> to open and close the door. The other thing I see is that the door
> guides strike the pins. If the pins are adjusted right they should 
go
> right up the middle of the guides and not even touch them. It is a
> little tricky to get it right because the doors close in an ARC. It
> may take some trial-and-error to get it right but once you get it 
you
> tighten that pin real tight and it won't move.
> David Teitelbaum
> vin 10757
> 
> 
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Robert Moseley" <videobob@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > Your door seals have you locked in.
> > Read more to find out what I mean......
> > 
> > Many of us have suffered from frozen door locks.
> > My drivers side door has always worked fine, but the passenger 
door
> > from time to time would sometimes lock, and would need to be 
flipped
> > back and forth a few times before you could get it.
> > I thought that $440 on a Lock-ZILLA with a remote would have 
solved
> > the problem but it had no effect.
> > All it did was lock me out from remote!
> > 
> > This time it locked up good.
> > I haven't been able to get in the passenger side for weeks.
> > Today I had to do something about it.
> > So from the inside I began to rip the door apart.




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