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This story may or may not relate to op but it's something to check out.
Years ago, when I was working in the automotive service field. I had a kid brought in a silver chevy Impala for an alignment. I walked to the car open the door. Open it. The door didn't feel right. So out of curiosity. I glanced at the hinges and door jamb. Color matched, but there was a junkyard color marker on it. Didn't think anything of it. Drove on the rack for my tech to do his work.
Next day, a woman called to speak to the manager of the facility. Customer started complaining that her son brought in the car for an alignment. And since she got it back. It doesn't drive right and the door doesn't close all the way.
She claimed that her son witness my tech got so upset with the alignment job that, my tech slammed the car door so hard, it now sag. She wants someone to do something to make it right.and if she doesn't get it, she's gonna call her attorney.
I explained to her that i am the manager and I happend to drive her car in and, I felt the same way when I open her car door.. I pointed it out to her. Someone had replaced her door with a used one. The lady called me a liar.
So I told her go look at the name of the junkyard written inside her door jamb. I told her to think back who's been driving her car.
Her young son.
So if you got weird things happend to your car. Did u loan it out to someone?
A slammed door won't do any damage. Yes even a Honda Civic.
Some cars have a safety switch that cuts all power under an impact. However, I had an early '90s Honda Accord that was nearly cut in half in an accident and it still started and ran.
Check any fuses near the door that was slammed.
I was thinking something along these lines too. I had a '92 Tempo that some jerk off chucked a frozen watermelon through the back window....at speed. The watermelon hit the frame of the window and split 20/80. The 20% ended up 100ft down the road, the rest was in the car. lol
Anyway......the impact was hard enough that it tripped the fuel cut off switch. Now, I still had power, but all she did was crank. Maybe newer cars cut out everything including power, but I was just using an example of something you wouldn't think would have enough energy to trip such a system, tripping the system.
One thing to think about is whether the slam puts more force on the car than a bump in the road does. Maybe because the bump is moderated more by the suspension. But who can slam a door that hard?
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