> My door DOES need a bit of alignment, but this is something > I do not trust myself on doing. Jan, I learned from my car's previous owner's mistakes that you cannot adjust the door hinge without loosening the torsion bar. Unless something in the hinge mount has shifted since originally assembled, this shouldn't need to be messed with. If you loosen any of the bolts holding the hinge/door together, the torque on the torsion bar will prevent you from putting it back where it needs to be. Unless of course you use brute force and dent the T-panel and the top of your door like was done to mine. Until I fixed my hinge problem, striker pin adjustments were not very productive. The front hinge was loose and caused the front of the door to hit early. If you have a problem like this, then yes, you have a difficult situation. But if the hinges are adjusted properly, don't fear doing a striker pin adjustment on your own. For "training wheels" I put a piece of tape over the striker pin to see which side it was hitting on. Since then I learned to tell by feel. My problem now is keeping the striker pins from shifting. The plastic panel goes under mine, and this makes the pin less stable. Later production cars have a whole cut though the panel so this isn't a problem. I might eventually make this change to my car. Walt