Toyota Sera Doors

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=== Basic procedure ===
 
=== Basic procedure ===
 
# prop door up on milk crates
 
# prop door up on milk crates
# unbolt base (easy). unbolt top (little less easy)
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# access then unbolt base of strut(easy). unbolt top of strut (little less easy)
 
# bolt new strut in at top (less easy again)
 
# bolt new strut in at top (less easy again)
 
# bolt new strut at base (easy)
 
# bolt new strut at base (easy)

Revision as of 12:46, 12 February 2008

The humble and uncommon Wikipedia:Toyota Sera has these nifty nifty doors. So-called 'butterfly wing'. These are the doors which inspired the McLaren F1 - which in turn started the trend for supercars to have butterfly wings.

Toyota Sera is a trend setter. Otherwise, it's a pretty ordinary 2+2 coupe...

Anyway, a downside to the funky doors is they do not fail gracefully, and when the gas strut which pushes them open for you then fails, you find out they are damn heavy

This happened to me, so I set about to swap the strut for the one on my newly 'spare parts' (ie, it's a minor wreck) Sera.

Tools needed

  • Socket set - 12mm socket
  • philips head screwdriver
  • shifting spanner
  • two milk crates

Basic procedure

  1. prop door up on milk crates
  2. access then unbolt base of strut(easy). unbolt top of strut (little less easy)
  3. bolt new strut in at top (less easy again)
  4. bolt new strut at base (easy)
  5. celebrate


pictures forthcoming

Links

  • [[1]] - pre-existing guide I more or less followed
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