Re: Heated Door Struts?

[jtrealty@xxxx]

I think you are on the right track but going the wrong way. When I 
last mentioned this problem to Rob Grady about the large change in the 
strut's performance summer to winter he said just adjust them twice a 
year!
As practical as this advice may be it isn't going to happen! Now that 
he is offering the door launchers soon this problem will just seem 
worse. I propose, and I guess you can put this on the "wish list", a 
temperature compensated strut for the doors. It makes a lot more sense 
than trying to heat them or adjusting the torsion bars twice a year. I 
realize that this will probably make them even more expensive then 
they already are but for most of us the signature feature of the 
Delorean is the unique doors. To have them operate correctly is 
paramount in the operation of the car. Imagine installing the door 
launchers and the doors open anemically and then only halfway! Heating 
the struts is just another way to kill the battery quicker. That's 
probably why they never installed the side mirror heaters.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, Christian Williams <delorean@xxxx> wrote:
> I was thinking the other day about door launchers and cold weather. 
Even
> here in California, the door launchers would only be effective 
during the
> warm months (unless you adjust your tortion bars with the changing
> seasons), and in the cold months, the doors would half-open.
>