Re: help! door jamming...

["jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

Park the car on level ground. Open the door. Slowly close the door and 
watch the front and rear pins as they enter the guides and lock. As 
the door swings down and inward the pins should be centered in the 
guides and enter the lock without hitting the sides. This is difficult 
to see without a flashlight.If you can feel the door hit the pins 
before it latches then you need to adjust the pins. To adjust loosen 
the pins (one at a time) and move it JUST A LITLE BIT. Make small 
adjustments till you get it right then do the other pin. Go back and 
forth doing each pin on 1 door till you get it as good as you can. If 
you find you can't adjust it enough in 1 direction you will have to 
remove some fiberglass to get more room to adjust the pin. Make sure 
you get them tight as if they loosen it could jam the door. Sometimes 
you need to put a washer under a pin to get it to line up better into 
the lock without catching on the head of the pin. The two main things 
are to PARK ON LEVEL GROUND and MAKE LITTLE ADJUSTMENTS. The locks 
have two locking positions, if the front lock only hits on the first 
position and the rear on the second the door will jam which is why it 
is important for the two locks to lock together. When a pin is out of 
alignment 1 lock is in the first position and the other is in the 
second. This is made worse when not on level ground. Lockzilla cannot 
help, this must be corrected before Lockzilla will work correctly.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "dmcjohn" <john.dore@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> My passenger door is giving a bit of trouble, I hope someone can 
help 
> me! It closes fine but often closes with a loud clunk, as if it is 
> not hitting the striker pins dead on. Anyway, it will easily open 
> again whenever needed. The problem arises when it is locked, either 
> manually from the inside, or with the key from the outside. Once it 
> is locked, it can be immediately unlocked again in the same manner, 
> no problem. The trouble is when the car is left locked on a hill (my