Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Adjusting door

Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual / General body repairs, exterior / Rear door, sliding door, wing doors, central locking / Door / Adjusting door

Special tools and workshop equipment required

Door alignment tool -3320-

Universal joint for 3320 -3320/1-

Bit for 3320 -3320/2-

Bit for 3320 -3320/3-

Torque wrench -V.A.G 1331-

Socket -3410-

Setting gauge -3371-

Removal wedge -3409-

Note

Only the adjustment for the left front door is described. The adjustment of the right front door is similar.

Vehicle must be standing on its wheels when front door adjustment is performed.

The rear door is correctly adjusted when all shut lines are even when closed. it is not protruding too far inwards or outwards, and when the contours are flush with each other.

For checking gaps/shut lines refer to → Rep. gr.00.

After installing or alignment, carry out corrosion protection measures on hinges and screws/bolts.

Adjusting door

Adjusting shut lines

To be able to adjust gaps correctly, bolts -2-, -3-, -6- and -7- on B-pillar must be loosened.

–	The B-pillar lower trim must be removed for bolts -3 and 7-.

Adjusting for flush fitting

In order to adjust flushness correctly, bolts -5- and -9- must be loosened.

Use door alignment tool -3320- with appropriate bit for this.

Note

Other measures, such as raising the rear door, will prove pointless. Subsequent pressure from above will cause the door to sack again at the back.

–	Adjusting striker pin → Chapter.

Specified torques

→ Chapter „Assembly overview - door“

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