Patent ID: 6910254

Claim:
A door mounting method for an automobile, comprising: a door hinge-attaching step of preparing door hinges each comprised of a body-side hinge arm, a door-side hinge arm, and a hinge pin which connects said hinge arms to each other for rotation relative to each other, and attaching said body-side hinge arms to an uncoated automobile body; a temporary door-fixing step of temporarily fixing uncoated doors to said door-side hinge arms of said door hinges; a coating step of coating said automobile body and said doors simultaneously after said temporary door-fixing step; a door-removing step of removing said doors from said door-side hinge arms after said coating step; an equipping step of equipping or fitting-out said coated automobile body and said coated doors individually; and a final door-attaching step of finally attaching the doors to the corresponding door-side hinge arms after said equipping step, wherein the positions of attachment of said door-side hinge arms on the doors are previously determined, and at said temporary door-fixing step, the positions of hinge positioning and retaining means of a door hinge-assembling jig set at a predetermined position on the automobile body are adjusted while taking account of the correction of the ill-fitting of the doors to be generated when the doors will be attached to said automobile body at said final door-attaching step, and said body-side hinge arms of said door hinges retained on said hinge positioning and retaining means are attached to said automobile body, wherein said predetermined position of said door hinge-assembling jip is defined by a pair of positioning pins projectingly provided on a frame of said door hinge-assembling jip and which are fitted within at least a pair of positioning bores provided in an outer wall of the automobile body.