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Volkswagen Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Front door 09.96 > > < Removing and installing door
General body repairs, exterior
Doors front
Adjusting door

To ensure a correct door adjustment the door hinges on the pillar must be loosened. Other measures such as raising the door upwards have no effect. Overpressuring thereafter will again cause the door to sack.

Use adjustment wrench 3320 combined with Torx bit T 45 to loosen securing bolts on door hinge, A-pillar.

Adjusting

  • ● The doors are correctly adjusted if the clearance to the door opening when closed is even all round, does not project too much to the inside or outside and the contours align.
  • ‒ Removing door =>Page 57-6 .
  • ‒ Loosen the Torx T45 bolts on the upper or lower hinge using special tool 3320 with a long bit. Insert only so far as to allow the hinges to be moved with the door fitted.
  • ‒ Fit door, tighten grub screw and set gaps.
  • ‒ Carefully open door, loosen grub screw and remove door again.
  • ‒ Tighten door hinge bolts
         Tightening torque: 36 Nm.

Note:

When using the special tool the tightening torque is to be reduced by 2 Nm to 34 Nm.

  • ‒ Fit door, tighten grub screw and check adjustment. Repeat adjustment sequence if necessary.

The paint structure must be restored and, if necessary, anti-corrosion measures must be carried out.

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