Seeing one door not aligned after 2 years

[BuschLatte420]

Amazing how one can go 2 years thinking wow I have a ram with perfect body lines, and one day you notice you don’t…rear door rarely gets used and finally noticed. There are worse out there though watcha gonna do. Dealer? Independent body shop? One year left of the bumper to bumper warranty, my fear is it will just get worse once someone touches it.

 

[jawzs2]

my fear is it will just get worse once someone touches it.

My thought as well. Back when I was in the car business, our PDI guy had a metal bar, about 4 - 5 feet long with a fork on one end that hooked on the striker on the jamb and a striker bolt welded on about a foot down that hooked into the latch, if he noticed a door misaligned doing his PDI, he'd hook that baby up and bend the door either up or down to fit. I cringed every time I saw him use it, but to his credit, it did work.

 

[Slinge]

hit the striker down a tad with a hammer

 

[BuschLatte420]

My thought as well. Back when I was in the car business, our PDI guy had a metal bar, about 4 - 5 feet long with a fork on one end that hooked on the striker on the jamb and a striker bolt welded on about a foot down that hooked into the latch, if he noticed a door misaligned doing his PDI, he'd hook that baby up and bend the door either up or down to fit. I cringed every time I saw him use it, but to his credit, it did work.

I heard that with a lot of PDR guys, it looks perfect but you don’t want to hear it getting done haha!

 

[rzr6-4]

Lol, I wish my ram was clean enough to were that is what I was worried about. Right now that would be about 17th on my to-do list.

 

[BuschLatte420]

hit the striker down a tad with a hammer

I did see this method while looking this issue up around this forum.

 

[BuschLatte420]

Lol, I wish my ram was clean enough to were that is what I was worried about. Right now that would be about 17th on my to-do list.

Sometimes I wish it was old / dirty enough to where I don’t care about these things, but being my first new truck the OCD hates it, which I honestly don’t know how I never noticed this in the first 2 years as my eyes catch the flaws usually vs the beauty in things.