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Door checks... Chinese crap
I recently bought 2 door checks so that the doors would stop annoying my wife.
The prices I got were Uro $15, Meyle $25, OE $45. I hate Uro so I went with Meyle upon the recommendation of a parts guy whose name is the adjective one would use for describing something of having a ferrous-oxide quality to it. I value his opinion so I bought Meyle.
I installed one last night, or rather tried to install one. It was rainy and my wife was leaving for work several hours earlier than normal at 6:30 so I ended up doing it at 11:30pm out at the end of the driveway with a drop light.
Everything went fine until I tried to insert the connection pin into the door frame. It wouldn't budge. I tapped with a hammer about a hundred times on it trying to get it to go in, but it wouldn't move so much as a millimeter.
So just for kicks I tried pushing the pin into the arm of the door check. IT WON'T FIT. I tried widening the hole with a screwdriver, but in my haste I think I torqued the arm in the process and broke the door check. Now it clicks loudly whenever you open the door. And it's currently held in place with the handle of a broken jeweler's screwdriver.
I tried the other one I bought as well. Has anyone else had a problem with aftermarket door checks?
I think I'm back to my old ways of getting them at junkyards...
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