Rear Door: Adjustments

Rear Door, Adjusting

NOTE:
- Vehicle must stand on its wheels in order to be able to perform rear door adjustment.
- Rear door is properly adjusted when re is an overall even gap dimension when closed, it is not too far inward or outward and contours align.
- To adjust or check gap dimensions: Body panel gaps; Body, rear
- After installation or adjustment work, corrosion protection measure must be performed on hinge and bolts.

For proper door adjustment, door hinge must be loosened at pillar. Or measures, such as aligning door upward, are not effective. Excess pressure reafter will again cause door to sag.

Use Door adjustment wrench 3320 with box spanner 3320/2 for this.

If it should be necessary that door hinge must be loosened at B-pillar from inside, Socket 3410 can be used. To do so, lower B-pillar trim must be removed.

Adjust lock bracket:

Adjusting door striker

NOTE:
- Adjustment that follows is only for right rear door. Adjustment of left rear door is performed accordingly.
- When closing, rear door must lock completely without furr applied force and must have no play.
- By adjusting door striker, rear door must not be pushed upward or downward.

CAUTION: Use this adjustment only to align door inward or outward, not vertically. Door should not move up or down when closed or opened. If this occurs, vertical alignment of striker is incorrect.

With door striker, one can adjust:
- If adjustment of rear door to rear side panel does not align.

- Loosen lock bracket - 1 - by loosening bolts - 2 - at C-pillar.
- Adjust rear door with door striker - 1 - so that rear door aligns with rear side panel when closed (wind noise).
- Tighten bolts - 2 - of door striker - 1 -.







Tightening torques: Bolts - 2 - 20 Nm.