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Anonymous Posted on Feb 04, 2010

My left door and fender are banging together - 1988 Ford Mustang

  • Rod Davies May 11, 2010

    Tell them to stop, it is not seemly in public

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Sounds like you have a body alignment problem. If you have the door open try to lift up on the bottom edge of the door. You should not have much play.

If you do have play you need a door hinge. It is also possible that you hit or were hit in the front and the front fender was slid back towards the door. There are shims in the joints and some of the shims could have moved or fallen out.

This is simple body shop work.

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