Door adjustment question
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Door adjustment question
I was going through and checking weatherstripping on my 05 X that I bought about a month ago. I noticed the driver's door fits well from bottom up to door handle area but at the top part of the window frame it is further out from the roof than the rear driver's side door. The rear door looks correct. According to carfax which I checked before buying, the X has never been in any kind of accident. The passenger side doors look fine. Anyone have any input?
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I saw a body shop "adjust" how a door fit when closed. They used chunks of 2x4's. They opened the car door, placed them hi or low in the door frame where the hinges are, & then pushed the door closed. The 2x4's in the way "adjusted" the way the door fit into the door frame. They used quite a bit of force.
As to why your door might be mal-adjusted, could be wear & tear, worn hinges, or maybe the hungover owner backed up with the door open (while they were moving the vehicle out of the driveway way too early on a saturday morning after a night out with the boys) & they managed to hit a stupid tree growing too close to the driveway with the door & tweak the door all wrong. And maybe that door never did sit right after that (bottom half of the door was fine but the top half of the door sat out away from the body & forward towards the grill), even after a body shop "adjusted" it, & maybe that door leaked a bit of water every time it rained, & made him laugh every time it rained, & maybe he just smiled when he cut that stupid tree down & his wife asked him "What did you do that for".......maybe
TGOT
As to why your door might be mal-adjusted, could be wear & tear, worn hinges, or maybe the hungover owner backed up with the door open (while they were moving the vehicle out of the driveway way too early on a saturday morning after a night out with the boys) & they managed to hit a stupid tree growing too close to the driveway with the door & tweak the door all wrong. And maybe that door never did sit right after that (bottom half of the door was fine but the top half of the door sat out away from the body & forward towards the grill), even after a body shop "adjusted" it, & maybe that door leaked a bit of water every time it rained, & made him laugh every time it rained, & maybe he just smiled when he cut that stupid tree down & his wife asked him "What did you do that for".......maybe
TGOT
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