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Originally Posted by pavulon View Post
Academically, each door assembly weighs about 25% of the cars' total making the hinges last around 6 months of regular use before making all sorts of painful noises and requiring a running start to get the things closed as intended...which usually involved removing leading edge and fender paint after about 7 months. What an engineering turd.
Pretty impressive survivor though.

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