Door = Dent 2

[bejane]

Wow! Freak me out!
I was doing a search on my passenger door problem and I found this older post from Feb. 03
It is the exact problem I discovered this afternoon on my 1992 Eagle Talon.
I was opening the passenger door to clean out the floor board and the door was real hard to open. I shut the door part way and re- opened the door to a "rusty scrubing" sound. I thought the hinge was rusting and needed some grease or oil. Then I discoverd I had Crushed the rear of the front fender in about two freakin inches!
Is there a auto body tech on this board that knows why this would happen out of the blue?
I pryed the fender back out, so the car doesn't look wrecked, but the door still doesn't open correctly without interfernce on the fender, why now I wonder?
Thank you for your time.
Billy.

 

[wastefuldreamer]

i did the same to mine the other day. freaking sucks. My car wasnt stock paint either and its going to be a b!tch to copy. All well.

 

[HokieDSM]

woah.... that's a little freaky.

had you opened it a little wider than normal perhaps?

 

[bejane]

No, I didn't open it wider than normal. You can and should always be able to open a door on any car to it's maximum. The front of the door is suppose to retract inside the rear of the front fender.
For some reason unknown to me, the front of the door is passing to the outside of the rear of the fender and doing the crush in thing.
This is stupid and to see other people with the same problem is aparently a design problem that raises it's head after a certain unknown reason.
Sure wish someone knows info on this body design problem thingy.
See Ya.
Billy.