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Originally Posted by Slag
You can adjust the bolt that the door closes into to make it a better fit. <...> I noticed this bolt was loose & tightened it up. Then I noticed the driver side door wasn't as flush, so I adjusted that one.
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If the bolt was loose, that might have fixed that one, but simply adjusting the bolt without adjusting the hinge could cause problems down the road.
Adjusting the striker bolt so that things line up when they other wise don't is simply forcing the striker latch to "bend" things into position. You need to adjust the hinges so that the door lines up to the body properly, then adjust the striker bolt (if necessary) so that it is in the proper position when the door is closed. Also the striker bolt's move "in and out" adjusts how tightly the door closes (and additionally lines up the door edge in and out) - but it is not a cure for a sagging door.
As for Europa hings, well, the Elan's were simple. There is a plastic "half sphere" on the end of the hinge bolt that fits into the concave "half sphere" bonded into the body. That hinge bolt adjusted up and down, and it's mount moved it around for alignment (after loosening a couple of bolts). Correcting the door sag simply required tightening the "half sphere"/bolt to compensate for the wear, or in the worst case replacing the plastic part for a couple of bucks - I'd show a picture, but I only have the hard copy of that manual (actually I have two hard copies - my original manual, and a spare I bought on Ebay for $25...)...
