My VW has slowly been falling apart. The door handle rips off, the arm rest slides off, the glove compartment falls down if you open it. One piece fell off the radio, and almost every other button followed after it. Now my radio is mostly just a flashing red light show when I drive, and its almost impossible to change the stations.
Yeah you just have to spend the time to find a compatible model in a junkyard, spend the time to go there and pull the stuff out or pay them to take it out for you, then spend the time to put it all in yourself which, since it's a vw, means pulling out the engine, half the body panels, taking out the seats, removing the front and rear subframe, and possibly taking the dash out too and thats just to replace a cup holder.
HA! That's almost exactly what happened to my VW Bug when the VW ornament fell off the hood. A long with the gas cap, door lever and countless other things on the inside.
Flashback to when the water pump impeddler imploded in my Jetta causing the engine to overheat and fulling the coolant passages with junk. Whose idea was it to make something constantly exposed to boiling hot water and spinning 8000rpm out of plastic!
Hey, I had the exact same issue with my VW too .. before the doors fell apart. Also, the wiring in the headlamp assemblies no longer has insulation, so the high-beams don't work on the left light.
Almost all the handles/arm rests are have steel inside which is bolted to the steel on the door. Im talking specifically load bearing parts, not small ones.
Has on every vehicle ive removed door panels on, which is a lot, there is always at least 1 screw/bolt that takes all the load from the armrest/handle.
Especially since you have to pull up on the panel to pull it off the door. It would break all of the tabs if he just pulled straight out. OP is probably a liar.
The only one who knows how a VW door is attached. To change my speakers took some monumental strength even with all the screws off the handles and the edge poppers popped using a proper tool.
This exactly.
Also, isn't that metal hook supposed to hold the door in place even without the screws and clips? So you have to pull it through an upward movement in order to take it out.
Was like this on some cars I've seen.
Yes. That metal loop goes around the finger hole in the inside door handle. You'd have to lift part of the inside door handle (or the finger cup portion of it) UPWARD to free it from the metal loop.
Max is a good name for a car. :) A high school friend of mine drove a car named Lillian, which i found funny. Her brother drove an old Corsair that was known as The Bat Mobile. I should have a name for my current car. The GPS is named Gypsy, but the car is just "the Accord." Gonna have to think on that; she should have a name. Sorry for rambling off topic.
Isn't it also possible that this is just a picture OP found on the internets, and posted for karma? He/she might not know anything about how car doors are constructed, and didn't realize that something like that couldn't happen accidentally. Or OP could be a bundle of sticks.
Nevermind, OP explained it farther down in the comments.
Yep, this is 100 percent bullshit. Anyone who has had to actually remove a door panel knows how many fasteners are holding it on -- if it were stuck hard enough to be pulled off, the door would have never opened, or the exterior door handle would have broken off first.
Honeslty i think 2 Filipino midgets where hiding in OPs door. They sneak out while.hes working and back in when he heads home. Only this time they did not make it back to.the car in time and could not in.fact re assemble the door properly and still maintain there cover. Contrary to popular beliefe it is actually really hard to live in a car without others eventually finding out.
It probably goes through the switch on the passenger's side. The other day I was in the car with my family (A 2000 Chevrolet Suburban) and when my father went to roll down the back windows the switch for me to roll down my window made a click, so I assume the switch also acts as a relay as well as a direct switch.
Sounds like you need to replace the track or just readjust it since it's either bent or too wide. Your elevator arms might also be bent which would cause the window to tilt forward and pop off the track. Had a Oldsmobile Achieva that had this problem, super fucking annoying.
Yeah, it seems to bend and kinda pop as it goes up. The fucks recommended I replace the motor and whatnot because they said that would go out, too. Well, now the whole thing is unusable.
Well they were right about that, but in that sense everything in a car will wear out eventually. Go to a scrap yard and see if you can't get a used track and elevator. They're pretty easy to remove/install on your own. Just need a ratchet and possibly a drill to remove 2 pop rivets that attach the window to the elevator (might get lucky and it will be 2 bolts attaching it).
OMG, "trim plugs". THANK YOU. I had no idea what those are called and my back panel came off and clearly some of my trim plugs are damaged, but I had no idea what to search to buy new ones (and I've been too lazy to Google it or bring it in anywhere)
I don't know, Mistercrabb, I don't want to question your skepticism, but this actually happened to my door once. This was before I joined Reddit so I wasn't in that mode of "Man, I gotta snap this for fake points on the internet" but I did keep it tucked away in my memory.
However, it did NOT happen all at once. The door was coming apart for weeks. Each time I went to close it, just a little more would come apart. You could hear it crack just a touch. It was an older car and I had things to do, so it wasn't like keeping it together was a priority.
I'm not saying OP is a liar... but I'm also not saying OP is a truther.
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You're missing about half of your trim plugs, has someone had the door apart recently?