Got my current truck at an auction where based on the title and paperwork it was a repo. The driver door agrees. It hard rains I'll get a drip from the top. Is there any way to bend this back or add a second seal to the top of the frame? Or is this finding a new door if it bothers be enough?
Bend it back by hand. It will move easily.
After you see how easily it bends, and how easy it is to make a sagging door close straight by lifting up on it to bend the A-pillar, you'll go apeE36 M3 on anybody who leans on your door when it is open.
Put a block of wood in the door jam, focus around the latch since thats the strongest point, and push in on that corner of the window frame.
I had to do this to both my Astros to reduce wind noise. As Pete says, they're pretty flimsy, so be careful. I just put my knee against the door, up near the bottom of the window and pulled. Do it fairly gently because you can kink the window frame.
I think I'd roll the window down first before getting busy.
In reply to jfryjfry :
It doesn't take very much force at all to give a door a permanent set, so you don't have to overbend enough to damage the window.
The window was rolled up when they pulled the door out enough to cause THAT set, after all.
I usually leave the window up to give the window frame a little more strength when bending it back, so it doesn't pretzel.
I'll bet the "heavy handed" repo man was the one who bent the door out of shape so he could get his "reacher tool" in through the door frame to pop the lock button.
Yes, just do your best to bend/shape it back.
The airbags, like im this kit, make the job of creating a gap easy but then you have to "repair" the making of the gap.
Repo-truck? I look forward to the build thread. My first advice on a repo truck is change the oil. The "cash strapped" crowd is not good at spending dollars on preventative maint.
However, I once bought a repo Pontiac Vibe and to my absolute amazement, it came with a full tank of gas! Doing a little forensics, the best I could tell is well meaning Grandpa handed down his clean Pontiac Vibe to grand kid who quickly took out a title loan on the car, likely for drug money. I bought it off the title loan company (via IAA auction.)
John Welsh said:Repo-truck? I look forward to the build thread. My first advice on a repo truck is change the oil. The "cash strapped" crowd is not good at spending dollars on preventative maint.
However, I once bought a repo Pontiac Vibe and to my absolute amazement, it came with a full tank of gas! Doing a little forensics, the best I could tell is well meaning Grandpa handed down his clean Pontiac Vibe to grand kid who quickly took out a title loan on the car, likely for drug money. I bought it off the title loan company (via IAA auction.)
This is the truck I talked to you about in Feb/Mar trying to figure out its past. In addition to the repo showing on the carfax from 2012 or so, I know it got to auction in Jan 2023 as a result of repo #2. Based on earlier auction photos, the door was damaged with this current repo. There's also paint scratches inside the door frame so it wasn't a nice pillow - it was a north GA mountains stab and yank. Thanks to some FB stalking of the name that was on some of the auction paperwork, seemed the prior owner had it for a while and really liked it. He posted a sad farewell with no mention of the drama but when someone seemed surprised and asked why the answer was "blow'd up."
The truck also has a junkyard engine evidenced by the paint markings on the valve covers. This was humorously listed on the Carfax by the repair shop as "spark plugs changed." LOL.
Knock on wood, it's been flawless for eight months and 4k miles. Nothing really to build thread about it. I wanted this particular one because it's a rare config - F150, crew cab, 6.5' bed. Long boi, more than a foot longer than my Suburban but I got the bigger bed (which I do find I use the full length a decent amount) and bigger back seat to make it a true 4 passenger when I need that.
And thanks to everyone - I figured it was a strong door damaged by the wedging. Who knew you could bend them back so easily? I'll find some weekend time to give this a shot.
i berkeleying hate ordinary people. ordinary people spend their entire lives avoiding tense situations. repo man spends his entire life getting into tense situations. let's go get a drink.
It’s the Repo Code, kid.
once again, DSW brings it.
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