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My mission is to replace the door hinges on both left and right doors in my R32, problem is, it looks kinda difficult and I cant find any info around on a procedure.

By having a look around the doors I can see there are 4 bolts to a hinge, 2 which are easy to get at and 2 that arnt.

They are also held in place by some kind of silicon to the door and some other harder stuff held to the chassis.

By havin a quick suss on the mission I can only see 1 easy way to change them

1. pull door card off door

2. wind window down

3. pull wiring out

4. release thingo between hinges that helps the door to swing

5. with a mate helping support the door and with a jack underneath supporting the weight of the door remove 4 bolts that hold both hinges to the door and remove door

6. now we have easy access to the bolts holding the hinges to the chassis

7. remove hinges and clean up where they mount to

8. putting new ones in is a reversal of the above steps.

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BUT what is the special stuff thats used between the hinge and the chassis?

I have silicon to use on the part between the door and the hinge so could I use the same stuff between the hinge and the chassis?

I dont know the correct way to do this, this is just an idea I came up with.

If anyone has an idea or have done this before id love the info, I was looking at attempting this either today or tomorrow.

Cheers Rohin

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Might be abit late now, but did this on my 32 when I had it. I just changed 1 hinge at a time so didn't have to disconnect anything excpet the hinge, supported the door with a jack when the hinge was off. Used silicon on both sides, seemed like the same stuff was on both when I pulled it off. Was a bit of a pain in the ass getting the door lined up and latching nicley afterwards, was a matter of setting the jack to different heights with the hinge bolts loose and then tightening the bolts and seeing how it latched

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i done this just recently on mine and had to take the front guard off, just do one hinge at a time and then line it up, i didnt use any silicone or anything you dont really need to.

i used a jack and a bit of rag on the end of the door to hold the weight and then just played around loosening the bolts until it latched properly.

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Is it very hard to take the front guard off?

Would I have to take of the sideskirt, front bar n indicator to get at any hidden bolts?

Sounds easier than the method i came up with lol ie. getting the door to line up properly...

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