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Door Striker
I am trying to fix my slam the door issue, and I read up on past threads. I replaced the front strikers last year on my 78 300D. The drivers side was getting harder and harder to shut. I found the striker to be bent up and the front tab broken off. I dremeled out the slot of the original striker and epoxied in a polypropylene tab to match the contour of the original. The door is still hard to shut after adjusting many times. I see on a website a replacement striker that has a black tab on the lower backside of the striker that I do mot have. Is that essential to proper closure?
The door shuts easier if I open the window a little. As of now it is not closing enough to seal, as I can hear air passing through on the highway. |
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yup
the plastic insert must be whole for the striker to close the latch. Sucks that they don't sell the little $2 part isn't it?
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Yes. That is what trips the latch.
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I am thinking about going to the dealer and buying new strikers.
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My 300sd had the same issue I sprayed lithium grease on the striker and latches no more problem. Same stuff works good on the sunroof.
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I have pulled the rear door strikers off the PNP cars, the rear door will fit the fronts on the same side. the rear doors don`t get used as much as the fronts and will be like new. they are like 2 or $3 ea.
If you lube up the latch with some grease using a small brush, it will make a world of difference. I use to have trouble with the drivers door, swapped striker, even a different latch assembly. sprayed it with WD-40 and what ever. then an Idie used some grease on a small brush, was like new. shut with little effort. Charlie
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FWIW, M-B calls this part a "locking eye." There is an additional failure mode that can happen when the rubber component fails: The affected door, once shut will not reopen, from the inside OR outside. Replace it before you get stuck with that problem!
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