Door alignment - pex tubing fix

[Electricduane]

Sometimes you run across a fix or technique that seems too good to be true, or it that really wouldn't work as well as it is claimed to.

On my 89 suburban, the doors hang crookedly. The pin / bushings do need to be repaired, but they're really not that bad. The door strikers somewhere along the way lost the plastic collars that came with them from the factory.

Somewhere I read that 1/2 inch PEX tubing works really well for the collar material. I bought two feet of it for about $2 and cut out four sections about one-half inch long each. Slit each of them lengthwise, then slide them over the strikers and shut the door on each of them.

I couldn't believe it. The doors aligned pretty much perfectly and did not rattle at all. This has been driving me crazy since I bought this vehicle. I had to slam the s*** out of the doors to get them to latch, and then pretty much all of them rattled like crazy as I drove down the road.

So 1-2 feet of PEX tubing (1/2 inch size) and it will fix you right up.