Car Door Hinge Shims

If your door is leaning and the screws on all hinges are tight you may need to shim one of the hinges to get the door level again.

Car door hinge shims.

Save the money and cut your own hinge shims out of poster board or thin cardboard. As the door swings out from the car it puts pressure on the hinge pins which can cause the door to sag a little. When not taken care of it can lead to other problems such as the hinge itself becoming loose the pins popping out and the door not closing shut or even flying open while you are driving. Open the door and support it with a wedge while you remove the hinge that needs to come out and slip the shim behind it.

There is a simple fix to align your door. The shim eze is the ezest fix on the market. Ez shim hing shims quick align hinge shims for 4 hinges carded blister packplastic hinge shim use when you need to quickly align a door in the jam there are 3 shims per card and each shim allows for a 1 16 adjustment made of high impact plastic and will not compress replaces the commonly used cardboard 15 pack. Although you can purchase hinge shims there s no need.