Door strut debacle

[James Espey <james@xxxx>]

DeLorean Motor Company (Texas) was the vendor where the struts were
purchased from that Rick Gendreau had problems with the struts being 5mm too
long for his application. Stephen and I discussed this issue and these were
the points that we think merit noting:

In the past twelve months, we've sold more than 1500 of these struts, and
have had three or four instances where the additional length was a problem -
and ALL of those instances involved with very low (sub-1000) VIN's or cars
that had been in a crash or modified in some way. A look at these pages:

http://www.gendreaumicro.com/tenpointtwo/body.htm

http://www.gendreaumicro.com/tenpointtwo/lift.htm

shows that Rick's car falls into that latter category. While we're not
trying to pick on Rick or his project (we think what he's done is pretty
ingenious), sometimes when extreme modifications like this are made,
sometimes things that would work before, might no longer be the case any
longer. While there's no clear link between the problems he's experienced
and the fact that the body hung by the wheelwells for a couple months and
large pieces were cut out of it (which by his own admission makes it very
flimsy) - we've never seen a later car like his (11472) have this problem
(some of the later VIN RHD cars - 12XXX series - used very early
underbodies, and they are the exception).

A 5mm increase in the length of the strut translates into a couple inches or
so with the door fully open, resulting in significantly more room for
ingress/egress from the DeLorean - something no one will complain about. For
the very small number of cars that this affects, shorter ends are available
for the struts.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

James Espey
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