iloveporsches

Guess its a little late to be asking now that I'm back at school, but my passenger door is hard to close. It wasn't this way around Thanksgiving, but was starting around Christmas and still is.

You can get about half way, and then it requires a pretty decent amount of force (compared to normally closing the door) to get it past that point, and then it closes pretty easy. Is there some kind of hydraulic in the door that may be shot?

vette4lyfe

I got the same problem.. it use to be fine at first but now needs to be almost pushed to close..

anyone?

Rich Sandor

have you ever taken the door off the car? If the bolts in door hinges have come loose and have been retightened at the wrong setting, and the car door as at an ever so slight angle, it can cause these symptoms. Also, there is the little door restraint which prevents the door from opening too far. If this is too tight, the door will be hard to close too.

Strike-Force

I had this problem before. Spray the joints with lithium. Closes easy now.

ODUporschegurl

dad sprayed mine, now no brute force is needed to shut my pasenger door. highly reccommended and cheap to start off.

iloveporsches

I'll give that a try. Won't be able to do it for 3 months probably, but thanks for the ideas.

agent944

Umm, I wouldnt hold off on fixing that. I actually had the same problem when I had my 83. It was difficult to close but not enough for me to get around to fixing it. Until the day the stupid hinge acutallly BROKE OFF!! It finally got stuck somehow and pulled on the bracket loop thingy (door stop I suppose) that holds it onto the door frame hard enough to break it when I was opening, not closing it. Mind you I opened it normally, no extra amount of force was required to break the thing.

iloveporsches

Well I can't fix it because I'm going to be ~130 miles from my car until March most likely

I'm at school, and it sits at home while I'm here. No one is going to be going in/out of it.

my87944s

I saw this thread and laughed my **** off... My passanger door has been this way since I bought the car... I will go get some lithium grease tomorrow. Where exactly are you saying to spray it? On the door check strap?

Rock

WHAT!? Are you telling me the passenger doors are SUPPOSED to close easily? Wow... thats new to me.... gotta check into that grease

schumi

spraying lithium grease on the door check strap and hinges greatly reduced effort to close doors on my car.

BigRed

Me too...

Is it just the passenger doors that have this problem? My driver door is great...

testarossa_td

Both my drivers and passenger side door had this affliction. Then I gave it a little white lithium on the retainer slider arm. I would use spray, but I had tons of that grease lying around. Smooth as butter. In fact I have to keep reminding my wife not to slam the doors now!
I guess with newer cars we get away from the old school lube this and that ideas that were required maintenance on older cars!

Chase72

Interesting... my passenger door doesn't take too much effort to pull shut--the problem is latching... it doesn't want to make the final 3-5 inches to close, so I feel like i have to really slam it, or go outside and push it in.

You guys face this problem too? Would lithium grease (and lithium pills for the driver) solve it?

Dilberto

Sandor is right. Any slight looseness in the anchor piece, will cause the extender arm to bind against the housing inside the door. Lubing them is an ongoing issue. The correct fix is to remove the front fender completely, so the anchor base cannot ever shift. The two star bit bolts securing the base to the fender, is likely the problem. Remedy shots of lubricant can still lose overall effectiveness, because the uneven contact surfaces of the extender arm scoops lubricant away to collect elsewhere. The adjoining sleeve housing the extender arm glides through actually begins to wear-away from friction caused by every imprecise movement.