Mk6 door alignment

[am1w]

Had not used the car for 7 weeks as I was recovering from an operation.

Anyway, after the first day of use, I found both the front doors (it's a five door) were sticking out 2 mm along the trailing edge. It looked as if the doors had not been shut properly. They were also letting the rain in.

This was on Christmas Eve. Called VW Assist and the very nice man arrived in 45 mins and re-aligned the doors in the pouring rain. The latches had not been tightened properly for the front doors by the VW approved bodyshop. This was because I had to have all 4 doors + bonnet re-aligned when I first got the car in March 2010.

What surprises me is that I have yet to see a Mk6 Golf with perfectly aligned doors. There are 7 on my street and every one has bonnet and door alignment issues. Not very cofidence inspiring.

Have Mk5 owners had similar issues? From the number of Mk5s I have examined, the doors seem to hang much, much better. I have been informed that VW have changed the door design paramaters for the Mk6 as the Mk5 doors were too expensive to produce.

I took my car this morning to an Independent Garage (friends of mine) who re-checked and re-aligned the doors perfectly in their workshop FOC, as VW were too busy for the next few weeks to attend to this. They also did a much better job than the VW Bodyshop.

Anyway, all's well that ends well.

[Snoopy]

 
Mk5 suffered badly when new. I answered lots of quesions about door alignment from 2005-2008 The way the outer skin is bolten on the mk5 made them worse to fit during production.

I was only discussing panel fit and finish with a 2011 mk6 GTI owner the other day when he came over. (He brought the fit of his bonnet, bumper and a few other things up, it was up not me who mensioned it   )

[jimble]

I've recently bought a cheap set of spline bits so i could adjust all my doors as they have started to creak in the openings, it's made absolutely no difference!

[Snoopy]

Loob the seals its the seals creaking. VW use a liquid called krytox made by dupoint but its extremely expensive but works for about 3 months until they start again. Mine are silent since the service.
I have been using autoglym rubber care on them between the service coatings of krytox not anywere near as good but far cheaper!

[jimble]

I found out what was creaking in the end, it was the felt seals along the top of the doors against the metal of the opening, used a clay bar on all these surfaces followed by some jetseal 109 and they've been silent ever since!