TheSamba.com :: View topic - What's the point of the rubber door stoppers???

Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:58 am

What is the point of these rubber door stoppers on the passenger side of buses? they're completely useless from what I've seen... The door is incapable of moving far enough to hit them; the hinge can't go that far before it hits the body...

Is there any real purpose to them???

Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:03 am

Extra protection in case of a wind gust? I have seen some doors touching. Maybe you have super cherry hinges.

Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:03 am

The hinges are completely capable of letting the door swing right up against the body, so without the rubber stoppers metal smacks metal. (ow!)

Often there are dimples where the rubber bumpers mount, from the doors swinging and smacking with the rubber bumpers multiple times over the decades.

doors all the way open:

It also keeps the doors handles from smacking.

Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:07 pm

There is something wrong if your doors don't open enough for the bumpers to touch.

Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:19 pm

maybe he has the check straps on still?

Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:47 pm

I have real tight hinges on my '62, and my doors open all the way. Clara's right, they keep metal from hitting metal and handles from hitting too.

Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:12 pm

PB Blaster

Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:26 am

I finally got some for mine. No more telling my daughter to "Watch the paint !"

Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:35 am

Wolffeather wrote: I have real tight hinges on my '62, and my doors open all the way. Clara's right, they keep metal from hitting metal and handles from hitting too.

AND busting the popout window latches if the windows are open and the door swings out all the way! #-o

Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:52 am

pyrOman wrote: Wolffeather wrote: I have real tight hinges on my '62, and my doors open all the way. Clara's right, they keep metal from hitting metal and handles from hitting too.

AND busting the popout window latches if the windows are open and the door swings out all the way! #-o

Speaking of busted, who's that in the first pic?????

I'd say your hinges are rusted solid if they are hitting the body when you open them. Seems like they'd have ripped free from the pillars by now.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:14 am

obus wrote: maybe he has the check straps on still?

Are those the straps on the lower hinges? If so, yeah, I have those on. I think they're what's preventing my doors from hitting the body.

My body guy took off the stoppers because the door didn't get to where they could touch... I suppose it'd be a good idea to have them on there, though...

Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:14 pm

ConcreteBalloon wrote: I suppose it'd be a good idea to have them on there, though...

And you'd be supposing correctly! :roll:

Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:39 am

I had to put straps on because the bumpers did NOT stop the door from hitting.

Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:46 am

BarryL wrote:
Speaking of busted, who's that in the first pic?????

in first picture you can see pyromans dormy in background ,but the guy getting stuff off of flat black bus is Skate. 8)