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The part of the door that locks around the door striker bolt? My passenger door rattles quite a bit and taking a look at the part that locks around the striker bolt on my passenger side, I can see it doesn't close as tight as the one on the driver side. For the life of me I can't find the name of that part.
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If I can't find a replacement latch, do you think a new striker bolt with the plastic sheath around it would fix the rattling? Is there any sort of adjustment that can be made to make the latch close tighter?
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If yours does not have the plastic it will rattle FOREVER no matter what you do..and, Yes it is adjustable...
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It's strange that my driver door doesn't have a sheath and doesn't rattle. I just ran to O'Reilly's and picked up a new striker bolt, I plan to put that on when I get home. Hopefully I won't need to make any adjustments.
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I don't quite get what you mean. It's bolting up to the same place, how would it be any different?
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where it is bolted up to is also where you adjust it , you adjust it by loosening up the striker bolt and moving it around and then tighten it back up ! it will have like 1/2" of adjustment give or take some !
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Oh wow, that's a decent amount of adjustment.
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From: CASA GRANDE AZ
you will see once you loosen the bolt so i always think that when you mark it before replacing it it will give a good starting point , and with a new bolt it may not need any further adjustment then it might ?
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