Door slammed by wind

[theseriojca]

Hello

Getting out of the car today and the wind slammed the driver door open past the normal position. I managed, very carefully and with a lot of force to close the door (I could hear crumbling of some sort which sounded almost like glass or maybe plastic). Now the door only opens to about half its normal distance and there's a bit of effort needed to close it shut (the last few inches, especially).

Did this ever happen to anyone? Is it the check strap? Hearing the crumbling, I would assume something needs replaced!

Thanks a lot in advance for all responses, car still drivable but would like sorted soon as the wife will soon not fit in the small gap of the door - baby bump in the way!

[Danielpsmith]

My wife had the exact same thing happen a couple of months ago the door wasn’t even close to lining up afterwards, I undone the torque bolts on the hinges to drop the door abit so it would shut and adjust the catch.

But to sort it properly I had to take it to a body shop and they used shaped blocks and bent it all back and adjusted everything back to how it was now it shuts fine again with no nasty noises and lucky didn’t have to replace anything.

The cracking noise on mine was the trim around the top of the door catching the body shop charged me £40 to sort it hope it helps.

Daniel

[theseriojca]

Thanks a lot Daniel,

my door did close neatly (eventually), when I was forcing it back it just felt like something was holding it from the inside, blocking the swing of it. I'll need to look at it in the daylight and assess any other damage, hopefully it won't be too bad.

[binty]

Hi,
check strap is easy to replace, I recall it is one bolt on the body, and two on the door and it just swaps out. I replaced my brothers, they are plastic covered steel and the plastic had broken.
(unbolts from inside the door so door trim must be remove but they are straight forward once you have worked out which door pull you have so you can unclip the top to get to the screws).

I presume you can just unbolt the strap from the body and push it back into the door to check if it is working without doing any stripping down.