Hey guys, Chris again from classic www.bugs.com and in this video, a quick tip on door alignment. People are always asking me, Chris, how do you get your doors to align? So perfectly, how do you get them to open and close perfectly? What was the secret? So as you can see, this is my 51 split and shut the door. That's perfectly solid sound and the lines are nice and even here. The chrome lines are perfectly not one is not lowered than the other and you got the lines here straight to body lines. So basically, a quick and easy tip for this is, let's go over here to a project that's painted but needs to be assembled. And basically the ticket here is to align your door before anything is on it. I have no door handles, I have no seal, I have no scraper, I have nothing in these doors. And basically at the body shop, these should be getting aligned. So your door should shut nice and even before you apply anything, before you even apply any paint or body work really. So you want to make sure that your lines are good so when you get back home and you have to assemble your bug, this is not going to run into an issue after the door is all assembled. There's many times I see this is worried about later and after they start putting strikers on, mechanisms, the striker plates in here and the door seals, the door seals then rub for the running boards. Your mechanism here, your latch might catch too low or too high. You might scrape the body, I've seen that before. So the best way to align your doors is of course with nothing on it. So you have no seals and such. If you know when you get back from the body shop and the door is misaligned just a little bit, again try to fix it this way first and then you progressively start adding the features to the door to make it shut right. But if you do have to align it, there are adjustments here on the hinges but really those adjustments here and here is for the door to go this way or this way I've noticed. So sometimes you get a little bit of movement, you know, up or down, okay with line, with those lines meeting up. But for the most part those are just kind of in and out whether the door sits, you know, hangs out at the bottom or at the top. So that's basically what those do. So a lot of times you know if the door is not aligned correctly it might be you have your heater channel or rocker problem and I spoke about this in the past where you know bugs are notorious for rotting down in the corners here by the pillars. And if you have a rotted or soft section here that is going to you know make your door not shut correctly as well and especially over here as well. So as you can see his prime example here the door was actually rubbing a little bit here, okay prior to us assembling it. So that's something we would have to rectify. But these are the symptoms that come up when it comes to door alignment. So just have to be mindful. If you are doing heater channels I definitely recommend picking up the Bug Me Video DVD series on heater channel replacement. He's going to show you how to brace the car and how to make sure that your door is aligned correctly before you start welding up your brand new heater channels. Because brand new heater channels today are kind of problematic they're not your specific and is you know if you have earlier bugs you know sometimes the shape is not correct and your body got just have to do a little bit more work you know to get it to be right. So you have to be mindful of that as well. But that's just a quick tip on door alignment. Again you want to just be able to shut the door perfectly without anything on it. It shouldn't be banging it shouldn't be supported you know to get into alignment after everything is assembled. You want to make sure this door shuts nice just like that and your lines are good your holes are good and you should be on your way. Alright guys if you have any questions email me Chris at classic www.bugs.com or visit my website www.classicvwbugs.com. Take care.