[ds968]

Both of my doors provide little to no resistance when opening them. The passenger one in particular has zero resistance so unless you hold it back while opening it'll swing freeley and really fast to its widest point hitting whatever may be in proximity ( car parked next to it <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> ) . The driver door is a little better but not much. So... what to do ?!

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[flash]

not sure i understand. mine swing very freely too. they are very light, and should swing pretty darned freely.

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[Cloud9...68]

I agree with Dan that this is a little disconcerting. All of our other cars' doors offer some resistance when opening them, and they "catch" about midway. The 968's doors swing too easily, making it too easy to hit what's next to you if you're parked too close to it. I've never looked into it, though, and have just lived with it.

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[ds968]

My other 968 doors have a little more resistance than the Tip's doors. But just a little more, and there is that midway catch and slowdown that I have on the six speed which for some reason is missing on the tip so these suckers just fly open with nothing holding them back :-(

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[MLB]

Hmm, interesting to hear this may be somewhat common to our cars. My driveway has a little bit of a slope, and when I try to get out of the car the door keeps falling closed on me, and it makes me feel like a little old man who can't stand up!

I had thought maybe the door catch was worn out and needed to be replaced, but apparently they were never very strong 'detente' stops to begin with.

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[ds968]

Lol, the slope of my driveway causes the same thing ; the driver door is on the "uphill" side making it difficult for me to get out of the car without fear of the door coming back and smashing my legs before I have a chance to move my old bones out of the way, and when my wife or son open the downhill door ( which as I mentioned is the worse of the two ) to get out they need to hold on to it because it flies open so hard you'd think it may come out of its hinges at the end of the swing..and hit whatever is close enough to it also ! Hmm, since I drive the car " solo " 99 % of the time maybe I need to park it in the other direction and while opening my door just hang on to the panel handle so it can pull me out of the car with it, in one swoop ...

Sounds like I need to replace the door "catches" , or the cheaper solution : attach mini bungee cords to them, LOL

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[Rap]

Don't you find this with most car doors? I think your just old and are blaming your poor helpless car! By the way I often feel like an old drunk man getting out of these cars. The red one is getting lowered and I can just imagine what it will be like and what I will look like! Lol

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[flash]

the door on the SL550 weighs a ton. trying to get in and out of that thing in the driveway requires herculean effort.



the catches on the 968 are pretty feeble, even when new. the doors are really light, so they swing easily, and the catch is little more than a bump in the hinge. it doesn't really stop there very well.

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[ds968]

[quote name='Rap' timestamp='1392461957' post='155091']Don't you find this with most car doors? Lol[/quote]



Not at all, we have four other cars ( from late 90s to mid 00s to '13 ) and no problem of the kind with those doors.

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[Cloud9...68]

[quote name='ds968' timestamp='1392480187' post='155099']

Not at all, we have four other cars ( from late 90s to mid 00s to '13 ) and no problem of the kind with those doors.

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Ditto here

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[DaveN]

Our cards have tiny limiting arms that have almost no resistance at the 1/2 way and full open points; I have to catch my drivers door all the time. My wife's beastly Buick, an I think this is true of most American cars, has a large cam and lobed lever that stops the door at mid-point and full open defiantly.

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[ds968]

So I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky that Porsche did not make our cars with gullwing or lambo doors...by now half of us would have severed limbs or, be decapitated.

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