Wind + Door = Eff me

[bcj]

Was backing into a driveway when the passenger opened the door once. Hit the curb and jacked the door a bit (different old american car).
I took it to a local autobody shop. They had some tooling to fix hinges with this sort of problem.
Different sized high strength seel rollers on the end of a bent wire. The stick it in and use the door and the jam to bend the hinge back the way it's supposed to go.
Not sure about the alloys used in the Toybu hinges.

The dealers won't have the deep knowledge about how to fix jacked up body work. They're fine for swapping stock parts though.
Your best bet is to find an established bodyshop and get an estimate to see what your options are.

[cwb48]

I almost had the same thing happen to me this morning with the hood- had it up to check for the oil leak at the AT pump cover plate (tiny seep at 3400 miles), and a big gust came up from directly in front of the car. Fortunately I was right there to grab it and prevent it from blowing off the hold up rod and doing who knows what kind of damage to the aluminium hood.

[gt865]

I'm sorry to hear that bro! The same thing happened to me, but my door met the side of a PT Cruiser. The PT was fine, but I now have a 6 inch crease along my door edge and cracked paint at the crease

[DJCarbine]

The winds were crazy yesterday for sure.
Today is a little calmer

[Kelbyat07]

Originally Posted by xxscaxx

These doors are not light.. if you think they are light, then you would fuse the metal when shutting the doors on a wrx/sti lol. My 05 STi with the frameless doors were light as shit compared to these doors.

That sucks though man. Hopefully you can get that covered by insurance.

Your wrx must of been super light then lol.

Even with little wind, sometime the door would try to shut back and hit my leg. Maybe its my car that doesn't want me to leave it lol.

[coastertrav]

Originally Posted by Kelbyat07

Your wrx must of been super light then lol.

I agree with him. The WRX doors are probably similar weight to length, but because they are much shorter (4-door) they weight significantly less.

I remember slamming the crap out of my ex-gf's STi doors on at least one occasion.

[xxscaxx]

Originally Posted by Kelbyat07

Your wrx must of been super light then lol.

Even with little wind, sometime the door would try to shut back and hit my leg. Maybe its my car that doesn't want me to leave it lol.

Yeah the door is doing that because its heavy, lol.

and you mean my STi

@coastertrav - exactly!

[feldy]

Seen dealer not a warranty thing. Talked to insurance have a appointment set for next Monday to get it looked at. He said this maybe under collision not comprehensive.

[chenshuo]

I hate the wind, it messes up my hair!