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cases where your car is getting older
and
the door check needs to be replaced. it's
not holding the door open anymore.
letting it go.
doesn't hold. versus.
here's our front door.
see holds itself, right.
that can be dangerous for, you know, if
you are
getting things in and out of your
car, you might have the door slam on you
or you walk in it as it's closing. or if the
wind's blowing it might blow the door
and damage it.
so you want a proper door check,
one that's working. so we're going to
replace this one.
[Before you start]. so this is a very quick fix.
you can try and access it first before
you go and buy the part or before you
bring it into the mechanic because if
it's this easy you might want to just do
it yourself.
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you might need somebody to help you hold
the door open so that it doesn't close
on you. you have to be very careful
because without the door check it's very
quick. the door can close on you.
you don't want to have your finger
caught as a door closes on it and you
want to make sure that you're able to
line everything up and have the door
open without it closing on you. so just
be careful with that.
in some cases the door check can only be
replaced if you take off the panel. the
whole panel here.
so that you can undo the door check and
pull it out from inside the door frame.
but in some cases it might be easier and
a very quick one if you have a speaker
and all you need to do is take the
speaker panel off.
carefully.
and that gives you access to the speaker
in here. once you take the speaker out
you should have access to that door
check. this one has
four screws that we need to take out.
just be careful not to let the speaker
fall out.
watch out for the speaker.
and then
slowly remove it
in some cases, the speaker, when
it was installed it was... it was stuck to
this plastic sheet here. you might have
to carefully pull it out. make sure not
to damage the speaker itself.
so you kind of have to slowly work it
loose.
and see it's still attached here.
just want to carefully detach it. you
don't want to damage this sheet as well.
and you should be able to take this clip
out so that you can have access to
inside the door there.
just carefully
see where it clips on. in this case it's
a little hard for my fingernails to get
so i'm going to use this
a bit
and just push it out.
there you go.
okay. so it's a bit greasy so we need to
wipe it off so that we don't dirty the
car as we take this off.
okay, that should be good enough
and we're going to use a
10 millimeter
socket.
it might be different for you.
we detach the one from the frame first
and then we're going to take the ones
off from the door.
remember which one goes where so that
you don't mix them up.
you can reach in your hand to
grab hold of the door check so that it
doesn't fall out.
so that's the door check right there. see
how easy it is to access.
i'm going to grab hold it from the
inside so that it doesn't drop.
make sure none of the washers from here
fall out too. you'll need them.
okay, so we're pulling the door check out.
see, so easy.
so we got a genuine part here from the
dealership.
here's what a new one looks like.
so this is the old one. yeah, and then the
new one here.
you might have to turn it sideways to
get it in first then you can turn it
back.
because the hole may not allow it to
come in normally. so kind of adjust it as
you need. and we're going to first attach
it to the door.
don't tighten it until all of them are
in so that you can make sure that they
fit nicely before you tighten any
particular one screw.
so it's just hand tight, you can still
move a bit. now that this is attached to the
door we're going to attach this to the
frame.
then slowly
tighten everything together.
don't over tighten.
you don't want to strip the
thread so don't over tighten it.
all right.
so that's done. everything's in place.
let's see if it holds the door open.
you actually can hold the door
like this.
and like this.
we're going to clip the speaker in.
it's ready so we slowly slide it in
in place and then screw everything back
in so.
just do the opposite. once the screws are
hand tightened lightly and everything is
in place and fitting properly you can
tighten all the screws.
and then
once that's done, you're done.
once you put the speaker cover back on
everything's done.
watch as we open this door now. see if it
holds.
oh, it holds here.
holds right there.
and then if we push it open...
will it hold? yes it does. even on an
incline that we're on right now it's
holding.
nice.
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