Kung fu maintenance shows front door coming apart wood separating from metal quick how to diy repair video.
How to fix separating door panels.
The rest of the door panels are perfect but the separated area at and slightly above the arm rests were unsightly.
How to fix cracks in door panels without taking the door apart wooden doors will develop cracks over time especially if the panels aren t free to expand and contract.
The split is on the hinge side at the top and it appears the weight of the door is causing it to separate from the door stile that is attached to the hinges.
This might sound expensive but if you scour the breakers yards and online auction websites you may find one cheaply.
Instead of a durable core of wood or particle.
How to repair a separating interior door.
Most of the time years of paint or caulking the seams around the panels will cause the wood to stick and not allow the panel to expand and contract with the weather.
I had to do something.
Either way i would not fix the door in place stick a shim in to maintain the gap before you remove the door and repair it while its flat on a bench or saw horses to take the stress off.
I understand this is a relative common issue on c5 s more common the older they get but i ve never seen a fix posted anywhere so i thought i d post my fix for this.
Each of our doors has 56 separate parts counting the various pegs and wedges that secure joints and all of them must function in concert with one another.
Being handmade these parts are rarely interchangeable even within the same door.
Alternatively you can remove the door card and then working from the rear of the panel remove the fabric and then use a spray adhesive to affix the fabric back to the panel.
The simplest one is to order a replacement door card.