Last year I went to the junkyard to buy a door for my car, it was one of those places that pull the parts off and have them stocked on shelfs. The door seamed solid and rust free possibly a southern car because cars up here the doors always have rust. But anyway paid like $175 that was a lot of money for 1 door but I thought it would be worth it since it was in very good shape put it on my car about 2 months later it came out of alignment were every time I hit a bump the door would pop open and would rub really bad when opening or shutting the door so re-aligned the door it was fine, then its doing it again I know its something in the door because we have all the bolts in it and I also put a drivers side door on and that only has like 2 bolts on the top and i think 3 on the bottom and that one stays aligned. So what should I do with the passenger door? The car that door came off was probably hit hard on that side and bent something Right now in our local pick and pull junkyard they got 2 3rd gen camaro's with decent doors should I just get one of them and put it on my car and sell my other door?

 

Ok, I had a hard time figuring out what your asking

So you pulled a good door and aligned it

Now it pops open on its own from hitting a bump, and also scraps the fender when you open it

Right, sounds like your door may be aligned just fine but your fender is not aligned to it. If your door is aligned pretty good with the rear qtr, then you need to adj your front fender forward slightly. Option B is to move the lower fender bolt thats at the front of the rocker on the front fender. Moving it up/down adjusts the bow on the fender allowing more/less clearance if needed

Now for the door popping open... I dont think thats alignment related. Sounds more like you didnt mess with the latch and its not completely hooking when closed. There are 3 torx bolts holding it set, you can adjust even these. Use the wear pattern on the reciever pin to clue you into what direction you need to move the latch. If you max out the adj for the latch and it still doesnt hook completely, you can loosen the reciever pin and adj it slightly.

Good luck

 

Yep thats about it, I think the fender is fine but I think it might be the latch causing all this to happen. Thanks for the info I will have to try that and see if it works.

 

I fixed the prob. Thanks for the tip on the latch it helped a little bit. My prob was it needed WD40, it was sticking bad and the other prob was all the bolts some how worked them selfs lose and I got them as tight as I could and the door opens and closes just fine now.

 

Old thread but having this problem again now the drivers door is doing it I have tried everything. I re tightened the bolts on the door's that helped for a little bit then it started doing it again so I re did it and also adjusted the latch on the door's that helped for the first 2 days now its doing it again. What is causing this to happen and how can I fix it my self? it is driving me crazy every little bump I hit sounds like my darn doors are gonna fall off., I need .

 

 

The only thing I can think of to help you out would be lock tight. Put some on the bolt threads if they keep loosing up on you.

 

After I tightened them the 2nd time they stayed tight but that did not stop the door. I will take a video of the door when driving that might help.