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MG MGB Technical - Door stops

Anyone come up with a door check for the early MGB's. In my GT, I have trouble in parking lots trying to get items out of the car and not having the door hit the car next to me.
Bruce Cunha

I just look where the car alongside me is and hold the door short of that while I get out. I wouldn't have thought you had a problem with an MGB in the USA, your parking spaces must be much wider than ours, but some of these lard-a*se SUVs even we have now make it damned awkward and one has to select one's parking space. My daughter always parks in a 'quiet' area i.e. a long way from the supermarket door for example, no matter how careful you are getting out some scrote could park alongside you and simply bang their door open.
PaulH Solihull

Hi Paul

You are probably correct on our parking spaces. I try to part a little closer to the car on my left so the one on the right where the driver gets in has a bit more room so they don't hit me.

I normally also hold the door, but if you have to get out with something in your hands it is difficult to hold the door get out and take something out of the car. I end up letting the door open until it just lightly touches the car next to me. As I remember, some of the british cars had a strap that limited the door travel.
Bruce Cunha

I came across an intersting web site, cannot remember what it was called but they had kits to convert certain doors to lift vertically, just by changing the hinge arragement. Quite interesting. Mike
J.M. Doust

Hi Bruce - the strap was a final stop the same as the rubber buffer is on MGBs, and only stopped the door when it was fully open. Some cars of the era, or slightly afterwards got the improved 2-stage hinge where there is a spring-load resistance at half open (which might or might not have stopped the door before it touched another vehicle), which could be pushed past to get fully open. The strap had the undocumented feature that if a gust of wind caught the door, the strap could break, smacking the door against the front wing and damaging one or both.
PaulH Solihull

Thanks Paul. I seem to remember my 68 sprigit had a strap that went from the side panel to the door panel, but as I now remember, it still did allow the door to open very wide.

JM

We installed a set of "Lambo" doors on my son's Mitusbishi eclipse. Actually pretty easy to install. I bet they could make a set that would work with the B or the BGT.

I might e-mail them and see.
Bruce Cunha

This thread was discussed between 13/09/2011 and 15/09/2011

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