help, stuck at work with door not closing
 

Help.

My passenger door won't close past the "first rotation of the latch"

I replaced the door strikers with Meyle new ones and it worked good for about two weeks. Today they won't work at all. I tried adjusting the plate for an hour and it won't help.

I did notice the rubber pad at the back of the plate is ripped half way.

in other words if you are standing outside the car looking in, the first pad (on the front side) starts the lock turning, and I thought the second one (on the bottom of the stiker plate toward the back end)completes the rotation.

Do you think it is the split rubber piece... Everything else checks out. I can operated the locking by hand if I rotate the lock, and with the stiker off, I shoved it in by hand and that worked a few times. Not great though.

Either the split rubber piece, or something else. What happens if you nearly slam the door? I need strikers also because the plastic insert with the tab is missing.

Put the seat belt through the door handle and latch it. It will hold the door so you can drive home.

Slam does not latch the door at all. I have moved the striker plate around for an hour, and it hasn't latched fully once.

It will rotate the lock to the first position, but the second rotation does not do anything.

Got it to close with a round head screw, inserted in the bottom of the striker plate where the rubber "ramp" is supposed to trip the second movement of the latch mechanism. I basically ripped off the ramp portion and it reveals a small diameter hole which a screw fits nicely in. I had to back out the head a little for it to catch the spinning lock mechanism.

I am not happy with Meyle right now. I spend $40 on a part that lasts two weeks, and I am back to rigging it like I had to the first time when it failed.

After I bought a used lock mech for my left front door, relaized the hard plastic stuff was the problem, new stuff fixed it. try mid tenn euro parts at 1 800 548 4727, www.unlimitedautoparts.com, ask for Jim, he has about 100 w123s he parts out.
ron

don't bother getting new ones
 

I wouldn't recommend buying new ones like I did. I spent like $60 on two, and both of them have already failed in a month. My doors aren't perfectly lined up due to sag, so I guess that has ripped the plastic/hard rubber "ramps" apart. I am going to insert screws in mine and adjust the screws from now on...

use brass screws. if you use steel screws, you will wear out your lock mechanism quickly.

Why don't you just adjust the doors?

now both doors, WTF?
 

Both new Mehle door strikers have failed.

I am starting to think my sagging doors is more of the problem. On the coupe, the door is really long, and after 20+ years of slamming to close doors, well I am not surprised.

This has been the single most frustrating thing to me with my 10 months of MB ownership....

I am going to spend more hours trying to line them up and insert the screw head on the bottom in place of that crappy ramp.

Would anyone suggest adjusting the doors, versus the striker plate????