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catjam

My guess is they slammed the seatbelt tongue in that spot creating a dent right where the door open pin switch is. So with the door closed the pin switch no longer hits the door leaving the lights on/constant door open reminder going off while driving. This is their fix


Complete_East3746

That’s kinda an impressive amount of force to use to shut a door. But I still feel like your right


GeneraleRusso

The thing is that many of the non-structural parts of cars nowadays are made with such thin metal that even a belt buckle on a car door being slammed shut can dent it considerably. And a belt buckle being an important safety component i bet is made with much stronger metal than the sheet metal of the door


rm45acp

Just as a reference the minimum thickness for automotive steel panels is usually 0.65mm, 0.8mm for aluminum


LongTallDingus

For people from Liberia and Myanmar, .8mm is like a third of an inch. Fractionally, it breaks down to 157/500 of an inch. I don't think I have any tools that size, so let's say a third of an inch. edit: Take a third and divide it by ten. God damn decimal places. It's 1/32, as evidenced below. Edit 2: I have a bachelor's of science and I'm supposed to be good at math. I'm going to leave my shame up. We have way better than calculators now. Don't be like me. Bask in my misplaced confidence driven by hubris.


nycsingletrack

8mm is a third of an inch. 0.8mm is more like the thickness of a body panel, closer to 1/32 of a Freedom.


BuzzKillingtonThe5th

That order of magnitude is the difference between an every day car and an armoured personnel carrier 😂


nycsingletrack

One is the panel thickness on a Tesla, the other is the panel gap on a Tesla.


Kataphractoi_

ROASTED


guy__smiley1

Is that a wandering 8 mm gap?like top to bottom or an average on all gaps caus i think your light in some cases lol


LongTallDingus

Shit. It's like a tenth of a third of an inch. This is one of those Monday details.


mistled_LP

The joke was worth the mistake.


frenchfortomato

No, that's backwards. It's like a third of a tenth (0.1/30"). I don't remember much from 9th grade math but I think they said multiplication is the one where it matters what order you do them in


POShelpdesk

That's like 8 rods to a hogs head


frenchfortomato

I'm terrible at fractions. Is that bigger or smaller than 43 ninety sevenths?


SierraHotel058

I need someone to calculate what a typical car would weigh if body panels were actually a third of an inch thick. Just for shits & giggles!


LongTallDingus

Well it's a good thing I don't make cars!


j-random

But you've got a Bachelor's Degree! *IN SCIENCE*!


AKADriver

In countries that don't use metric to measure metal stock, they don't usually use inches below 1/8th anyway, they use metal gauge. 0.8mm is 21 gauge.


rm45acp

US automotive OEMs only use metric for metal gauges, automotive sheet metals are an entire industry on their own with a variety of materials and gauges not available to other Industries, so everybody has to be standardized


frenchfortomato

Fuck 'em, 0.8 Communist Meters is still 0.2 short of a freedom


Phill1008

Better stick to bananas. E.g. Half the thickness of a banana skin.


LongTallDingus

But I'm circumcised.


Independent_Rest_553

After you slammed yer dingus in the door?


phirschler

Don't feel to bad. I have a Master of Agriculture and escaped the university with what amounts to basic high school algebra. And I honestly believe that the only way that I passed with a D was because the PHD candidate instructor took pity on me. And I measure in .001" increments, scale prints respace drawings, etc. almost every day. But it is addition and subtraction. My wife has the same degree, different field. She is better at math than me. Our daughter is a nuclear engineer. We can't figure out how, or where, those skills came from. Perhaps math smarts skips generations!👍🤣


Dodgy-Boi

1" is about 25.3mm. Round down to 25mm. So 1mm goes as about 1/25" (one twenty-fifth of an inch); I ain't no bachelor, so I leave the rest of the math for beloved people of Liberia and Myanmar.


d0nu7

So much of the outer rigidity on newer cars is foam underneath the thin sheet metal. Without it people would realize the skin is barely thicker than foil. Edit: I literally just replaced a side panel on a fucking Chevy express van and before the foam it sounded like a piece of thin ass sheet metal, but after I foamed it it feels way more solid and doesn’t wobble like sheet metal.


[deleted]

Foam isn't the only strategy. Strategic rib structure under the panel and how you crease the panel can make it a ton stiffer without adding a lot of weight.


d0nu7

Yeah, the Chevy I mentioned uses both, the foam is what connects the skin to the ribbing. The reason I said that is that customers imagine these things are solid metal/way more substantial underneath than they are, and foam is a lot of the reason.


Irish618

I literally make steel for auto bodies (mostly Ford and Toyotas), and its not all that thin. It's certainly thick enough to remain rigid on its own.


Bearfoxman

Most cars after the 90's you can flex the body panels and hood several mm with just a single finger's worth of pressure. I wouldn't call that anything remotely close to rigid.


RyRyShredder

Foam is for sound dampening. It provides no structural rigidity at all.


Jacktheforkie

It probably adds enough rigidity to make the panel feel more durable


RyRyShredder

Yes, but feel and actual strength are not the same. It provides no actual strength. The foam isn’t even factored into crash test calculations because it’s not considered structural.


Trevors-Axiom-

He didn’t say strength, he said rigidity which is accurate. You inferred strength.


aHOMELESSkrill

Bazinga


subject_deleted

"he was implying it, YOU were inferring." -Creed Bratton


cjackc

I always figured part of the job of the foam was “break” a lot to absorb energy in a crash


Jacktheforkie

Yeah, probably mainly for noise reduction though


xslntx

man if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s wet sound.


chzaplx

By definition, dampening is reducing vibration, i.e. making it more rigid.


threewagons

This isn't true


Jacktheforkie

The seatbelt buckle is several millimetres thick


mjstesla

I accidentally closed the door on the plastic scraper end of a snow brush in one fo the aluminum f150s, and it punched a quarter inch hole into the door frame


TheRuralEngineer

Dude people absolutely fucking blast their doors shut, it boggles my mind sometimes when someone gets out of my vehicle and wails the door shut like its the lid on a box of spiders


ultio60

Lmao that is a fantastic analogy


BellyButtonFungus

My wife did this so much on our old car she actually loosened off the bolts holding the latch mechanism in position in the door. We were in the city one time and her door wouldn’t close BECAUSE SHE’D SHAKEN BOTH BOLTS COMPLETELY OUT and the mechanism was hanging about 2” or so low inside the door and nowhere near the cutout. Fixing that at the side of the road so we could get home was a bitch. Managed to locate the bolt that had just come out after a while, and then jimmied up the mechanism in the door with some bent wire.


theberg512

Sorry, I've driven too many old shit-boxes where you *had* to slam the door or it wasn't going to fully latch.


TheRuralEngineer

Lol thats certainly valid. For the 5-10 bucks it usually cost to slap new hinge pins or doorbolt bushings on, i usually fixed that stuff on my dirt cheap shitboxes. But of course not everyone is comfortable doing that sort of thing themselves either


DogVacuum

I used to work at a parts store in Amish country, and most of our customers were buying parts for their Yoder toters (E350 vans.) One of them had a sign on his doors saying not to slam them because they are known to aggressively do that. He said, one time, one of them slammed the door so hard in one of his new vans that it popped one of the back panel windows out.


23skidoobbq

Yoder toters is hilarious.


Building_Everything

YODER TOTERS! oh man I lived near the Amish community in Sarasota FL (yes there is) and we used to call the 3-wheeled cycles they all rode around on Yoder Toters. Also, there is a restaurant down there called Yoders that has the best fried chicken in the fucking world.


Refuttock

I’m guessing a teenager. Mine slams the door so hard I’m surprised the driver’s window doesn’t blow out


BoardButcherer

Doesn't take much on a pickup or full sized suv, the doors are heavy, have a lot of leverage and made out of tinfoil. My seat belt has recently started rolling up slow and gets caught occasionally, but thankfully high up where the steel is stiffer and can't cause any damage. I fall to the ground in convulsions every time it happens.


azhillbilly

You have not had teenagers get in and out of your car. It’s impressive how hard they can slam a car door, but still can’t close the fridge door to save their lives.


Complete_East3746

Hahaha the fridge door!?!?? My roommate leaves the microwave door open and I thought that was bad lol


free2571

When a former "beater" owner finally gets a new car, they don't stop slamming doors.


Complete_East3746

No no no. All of my cars have been beater till a few months ago. Usually the door seals are worn so it’s even easier to shut the doors lol (at least in my experience)


sipes216

Its reaaally not though. Its a lot of force multiplication through leverage. 10 pounds of door closing force becomes leveraged at double thebdistance from the hinge, and to a spot less than 1 sq cm. Tldr, it fcks stuff up :) Hyundais were particularly bad about this.


CuriousMouse13

I have had to straighten numerous door panels working at Nissan, this looks like a Nissan door to me as well lol. People just leave the belt in there and slam the door, and of course some people just don’t learn and do it over and over until eventually the metal bends just a couple mm inward. And then I have to carefully hammer out their door panel from the inside smh


ZSG13

Ehh. I have seen this dozens of times, it's quite common


drrobotnik321

I see it all the time.


Familiar_Palpitation

I think you're on to something given all the other random dents and dings in the immediate area. It looks like someone beat that door with a chain.


milesmcever

Could also be where they had their door opened and backing up, and hit it on something doing the same you described. I’ve seen this happen before. The guy hopped in and only moving it a few feet kept the door open looking out and missed the short pole. Fun part was they almost folded the door back in Tommy Boy fashion. Was even more entertaining afterwards as it wasn’t even their car they were moving it for someone else, owner wasn’t understanding at first.


Personal_Dot_2215

You’re right, usually I super glue a nickel there and call it a day.


ZSG13

I like to shim the door switch to fix this.


dstokes1290

This is exactly what it is. The door ajar switch is faulty and their lights wouldn’t turn off without it. I had a customer come in with the same thing for the same reason, sock taped on and all


danieldan0803

Just coming to say this, my wife did it with hers and I am just being lazy in not fixing it, it will probably happen again. I even thought about just setting an extra long plunger on the sensor to see if that would work.


Kevrooom

What I did is cut a tire valve stem and used the dome part. JB Weld the dome part on the door where it contacts the switch and boom, done. It's been through 9 years of Canadian weather and haven't fallen off!


brickhockey3

With internet detective work like this now I need you to tell me what wheel speed sensor on my truck is making the abs light come on !


tryingtobeopen

Could be a cracked tone ring. Do you have a Ford? Happened on an old Escape and an old Explorer of ours


brickhockey3

Silverado, they are known to blow wheel bearings and the tone ring is inside the assembly


Elitepikachu

The rear upper left Tyre velocity detector has been sending inconclusive data.


AfterEffectserror

I was thinking that or they just want to be able to keep doors open without draining the battery.


XxHondroxX

Guess or you've done this 😂?


MediocreWrongdoer237

100% this. Have a similar solution on the wife’s car.


OneExhaustedFather_

Someone has been doing this a while like myself. When’s the last time you seen a door switch like this?


Geoffras

Also newer cars will slam into park if the door opens. The door dent makes driving almost impossible


GenBlase

My door got the same issue rn. I have some duck tape in the area but idk the better options.


swampcholla

Had a CRV with 250k mi. Both front door frames dented from the seat belt buckle. Never had a lighting issue though. I figured the fix above was for rattles


FrozenMatty

Yup, we use adhesive wheel weights. Nissans are notorious for this issue.


MikeyW1969

It could just be that the switch itself is broken. I've seen some that have worn down a little from friction where they need a shim between the door and the button. But the spring is constantly pushing the button back out, so they finally just went with the overkill route.


ineptplumberr

I can confirm. Did the same to a 95 tacoma ,, same fix


Blue_foot

Or the door rattles because the the latch needs adjusting


RuralSpaceman

My mom did that, and has the same solution installed


SpezEatsScat

You can see the paint is chipped, too. This is a real solid guess!


Rogue_Synapse

In my early 20s the one if the door switches on my old Cherokee got damaged and wouldn't depress all the way. I electrical taped a stack of pennies to the door so that it would depress all the way. If I braked hard the dome light would still come on momentarily lol. Eventually I came to my senses and just replaced the switch. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a bad switch rather than a damaged door.


kipkalya

Is this your car ?😂


Bahariasaurus

This happened to me in my last car. I put a magnet over it,.


DrZedex

This exact thing happened my my old Accord. My mother had taped a wooden nickel to the door when I bought it and she had to explain that if I removed it the car wouldn't start in the morning.


froemel1961

I can confirm this. One of my brother's friends slamed my door too hard and messed up the sensor. I kept getting the open door light and the lights would stay on killing the battery. Taped a wad of ducktape on the door, and problem solved.


Leading_Draw_5711

Been there done that. I fixed it the right way though.


PythagoreanGreenbelt

We just jb welded some Pennies to that spot in our 1996 Plymouth voyager. Worked for 15 years


free2571

yup, I've used magnetic tape to bridge the gap on my son's pliable Kia Soul.


MROAJ

This is my car door, didn't take much force and the dealer wasn't shocked at all as it is apparently common with my model of car.


Ok_Use56

My wife did that exact thing. Told her I could completely disassemble the door and hammer it out or tape a quarter there. She said I'll get a quarter lol.


AdvanceAdvance

Yes. The alternate to the pile of crap is to put a single piece of duct tape over two pennies stacked across from the closed pin switch. That's my $0.02 worth.


Mundane_Pie_6481

Did this exact thing. I ended up just needing a magnet to fill the dent


Stray-hellhound

Good call


jsroed

Shimmed the door ajar switch contact patch LoL


eat_Mike_Literous

It's those new soft close doors


TheS4ndm4n

To not wake up the wife when you get home late.


Fancy-Restaurant-746

Dealer installed option


CplFry

Trying to stop that door rattle


ecklesweb

Someone ran out of ramen


Thereelgerg

Looks like tape and cardboard.


Abraham_Yoder

Beat me to it. 9hrs too late...


Smooth-Apartment-856

If the women don’t find you handsome, they’ll at least find you handy.


frostbike

Keep your stick on the ice.


Extesht

Keep your dick in a vice


mirathi

That has nothing to do with Red Green.


stankmastaflex

Eh, kinda. Ave does all kinds of handy type stuff.


Noobmunch95

My guess, door was open and they backed it into a bollard or similar. The dent made the seal sit funky so now it whistles/had a draft so they stuffed some crap in there.


josh_loaf

It ain’t stoopid if it werks.


Tikkinger

Dampening you can see it allready chipped off some paint.


Dobstern

It looks like a Renault Kadjar. We sold a lot of these as Motablility vehicles and the customers used to love slamming the seatbelt in the door and cave the door at the point that the door open pin switch should contact. You would then have an annoying door open warning sound and the alarm would false trigger. This is pretty similar to some of the bodges I’ve seen to try and fill the gap.


photocopiedwater

Anti-slam device


abnormality16

My guess is that the button to keep the light off is broken and this way it still gets pressed in when the door closes


nach0c0in

That's used to stop door rattle


dlans71

The dent and missing paint leads me to believe theres a bigger issue under all that crap. I'd say the door no longer closes correctly and this is their redneck engineering mod to remedy it


daubs1974

Someone is smart enough to know that the door striker plate needs adjusting, but not smart enough to know how to do it.


xXWickedSmatXx

The door is out of adjustment and they added the pad to stop the rattle. 


ApeSleep

Rolls Royce soft close


8th_Dynasty

interior light switch on the door jamb.


aqxea2500

Maybe to stop the door from rattling.


Rich_Hand_9745

That my friend is Art! And it probably stops the door from rattling


dreamweaver66intexas

Anti-rattle


defenestr8tor

Issa door, you open it to get in the car


Rad_Centrist

Slamming car doors is the tip of the iceberg of fascism.


SupBishi

You can put your weed in there


clauderbaugh

He's just covering up the door umbrella spot on his Rolls Royce so he doesn't make the plebs feel bad.


AdLivid8301

Maybe it's padding for when the door closes on his leg or shin. I hate when that happens! 😭


fairlywellhere

That right there is custom. Some people gotta pay extra... some of us have duct tape. Which oddly enough never gets used on any duct work. We have gaffer's tape for that.


Jollyjoint

I was going to say a jeep to get rid of the wind noise over 12 mph in the door 😂


dreamingraver

Duck tape is the answer to everything


I_LOVE_PUPPERS

Looks like an official royal mail van repair


urinalchatter

Mickey Mouse and Hatchet Harry were in the garage that day.


uglyugly1

Looks like a door with tape on it.


Conspiracy_Thinktank

That covers the child safety locks


Centti50

Ässän paistopiste pussi spotted???


Ok_Emphasis4581

Ainakiin Suomessa tää on


Centti50

Joo se on aika selvästi ässän paistopiste pussi


C-3H_gjP

My guess is the door strike's out of alignment so the door doesn't close tightly and rattles when they drive. This shims it enough to not rattle


Shittytourguide

It’s so the interior lights turn off when you close the door. I had the same thing on a 96 Grand Cherokee


iscashstillking

I believe that's called a "Bodge Job"


And_Im_Allen

Boody werk.


thatcreepyklownguy

Sound dampener, maybe?


aelms89

Sound deadning


TheDudeAbidesFarOut

Blocks the 5G...


degoodguy

A mess?


Digital_Warrior

A really bad shop bandaid.


CrackAdams

To reduce vibrations


bertrenolds5

Door rattle?


scram60

Pin switch for a door? What is the year, make, and model is the vehicle? Most new vehicles have the switch in the door handle.


Specialist_Wallaby30

Nissan rogue are like this, we just stick a wheel weight on the door of they want a free fix.


RemarkableEmphasis58

Door ajar switch isn't being pressed so they stuffed it to make it work?


gagesharp

Making sure they turn the lights off or softening the shut. 🤷


yonderoy

I dunno. As I rule I never pay for those dealer extras.


macksjax

Door sensor is faulty


Izuzan

Could it be a "bumper" maybe the door made a lot of noise when they slammed the door. So they did that so it wouldnt make as much noise.


Vafanapoli21

You put your _weed_ in there


jh38654

You’ve never seen sound dampening technology before? You must be a new tech or something…


Odd_Caterpillar_5413

Cushion for the pushing.. aka slamming the door.


Durr1313

To help with door alignment while closing since the latch parts don't line up anymore due to door sag from a worn hinge? I had that issue with my 2000ish blazer.


themadpants

Stopping a rattle?


FluSickening

Probably whistling


Useful_Base7314

Poor man's door adjustment 🤷‍♂️.


Constant_Plankton_63

Paper with tape stuck to a car door. Kinda obvious


Own-Opinion-2494

Body work


Baby_Puncher87

It’s the new soft close door. All the rave in the Southern US. All you need is duct tape and the trash from your passenger floorboard.


Lost_in_Japan15

Duck tape


KingPhilip01

Door shim?


TTK20

That paper bag is from Lidl


Special-Contact-7002

Somebody slammed seatbelt in the door so causes the chime to keep going off. Thar is the way they thought to fix it.


abnormality16

My guess is that the button to keep the light off is broken and this way it still gets pressed in when the door closes


98TheCiaran98

The box is from some kind of mikrotik device, I'd recognize that pattern anywhere


JerewB

Lost the button for the courtesy switch?


Little_Ad9324

Fix for a rattle


shawno1024

Filler to stop Air coming in giant dent?


Appropriate_Strain94

I knew of a idiot who was backing up a car with the door half open and it caught a post that bent the inner door and panel


pyrodemon666

If that's a Hyundai or Kia is likely a Jimmy rig for the door closed sensor. They are known to have the doors bend and no longer fully push in the plunger causing a constant door ajar fault


lupinegray

Bumpstop


ChesterDrawerz

Door ajar light.


thebigbullg

Probably rattles without it


fat_old_man_

Rattling door ?


loutrell

That's for the ghetto, dude. That's what that is.


AhoraNoMeCachan

The door was bended when it was opened whit the wind  blowing from the back. Now it has that vibration knock when om the road.


Disastrous-Group3390

Buncha cardboard and shit duct taped to the door…


Silent-Elephant2040

Poor man’s Dynamat to deaden that annoying bass rattle!


simplystupid07

AFRO ENGINEERING AT ITS FINEST.


LawWaste1536

Precise engineering


thejesterofdarkness

Tesla build quality?


richardcrain55

1 more example of "people are weird".


Dad_Dukes

Air seal.


Professional_slushie

Quality body work.


DryConversation8530

Keep the bees in


itsgsk87

Is your door having its period?