MotherSuperior
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- July 6, 2008
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- City, State
- North Jersey
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1992 and 2014 XLT
I replaced the driver-side front door last night, and it's not set perfectly yet but it's close. The thing of it is . . . I hate the door.
It's like transplant rejection or something. It has the same interior panel and switches, but the handle is different and it isn't eaten away by eighteen years of rust. I feel like I should be happy, but it's not MY door. The handle doesn't feel right, the bar that operates the lock is stiff and difficult to turn, the window actuator is bad, the wind noise is terrible.
Did I get a bad door? Is it worth taking to a body shop to have a professional do? Can the lock bar inside the door be adjusted somehow to make it work more efficiently or the handle changed to feel like it's opening the door and not just allowing the door to be pushed away from the body? Am I expecting too much from an old machine?
It's like transplant rejection or something. It has the same interior panel and switches, but the handle is different and it isn't eaten away by eighteen years of rust. I feel like I should be happy, but it's not MY door. The handle doesn't feel right, the bar that operates the lock is stiff and difficult to turn, the window actuator is bad, the wind noise is terrible.
Did I get a bad door? Is it worth taking to a body shop to have a professional do? Can the lock bar inside the door be adjusted somehow to make it work more efficiently or the handle changed to feel like it's opening the door and not just allowing the door to be pushed away from the body? Am I expecting too much from an old machine?
