My drivers door was bent back severely enough to damage it during a theft a couple of years back. A lot of the paint was chipped off of the frame where the bozo had used a crowbar to make it easier to work the stiff wire they used. I know about the wire because they left it in a big ball in the driveway. It’s that stuff that’s used to hold scaffolding to buildings.

It’s hard to close it completely. You have to slam it like hell and sometimes it won’t close even then. It will latch, but it’s the halfway latch, it’s half loose and won’t lock.

Anyway, I found one on an SEL at a boneyard without a mark on it, opens and closes flawlessly.

There is one bundle of wires I can’t figure out how to detach. I can’t even see it, it’s behind sheet metal. The video shows it, it has a kind of thick braid, you can see it through a small window opening but I can’t see where it’s fastened or how to unhook it when I do find it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/yCytmjMwIYQ?feature=share

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