Come along with Eric O. at the SMA shop as we install another "high quality" Dorman Products part on a car. We attempt to install the Dorman 93573 Liftgate Handle for the Jeep Grand Cherokee 2010-05. As usual though it is a complete fail!! DO NOT attempt to do this at home unless you have a cut off wheel and a welder! Thank you again Dorman continuing to you us folks in the shop for your product testing. Glad to see your VP can pull in almost one MILLION dollars last year. Maybe, just maybe you could use a bit of that for research and development?! Nah never mind I forgot, this is an "isolated case."
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need grease
Eric, you are your own worst enemy. You complain about Reman parts, Dorman and Cardone but you continue to buy the crap then you get pissed when it doesn't work out.
customize the gate.
Imagine the “steel” being 304 stainless or the like….
Hell yeah, Eric your the pro from Dover for sure…
Cut the rod Shorter and notch it for the E clip Eric O @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC
Good Repair Eric O to bad the doorman part don't fit through the hole @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC
cutting a small notch on the body part would have been a better alt, esp if you didnt have the welder and such as the small notch would never been seen or matter and a dab of paint would have covered the edges of the notch …LOL probally what 95 % of us shade tree diy would have done without worrying about it
I’ll piddle around with something like that on my auto but not a customers. The labor plus the crappie parts cost near the dealership price.
Could the rod be inserted in the opposite direction? That way the excess would be in the clear at the other end having no clearance or fit problem?
time time but what can you do??
Love your honest sometimes brutal truth. You go the extra mile for your customers. Wish you were closer. I can use a good mechanic.
Spray that with a heavy chain lube
Find somebody with a 3D printer
Replaced the passenger window regulator and motor on my civic last week with a dorman regulator/motor assembly. lost automatic up/down and control from driver's side button. Tried the motor reset procedure multiple times. Didn't help. Took it apart again. The dorman motor is missing 4 contacts that are there on the Honda (and are supposed to be on the dorman too, going by their product pictures). Replaced the dorman motor with the original Honda (kept the dorman regulator, as the problem was with the original regulator), hooked it back up – everything works as it should straight away.
Moral of the story? Stay away from dorman stuff.
The regulator is ok (though it's missing a helper clock spring that's on the original), but the motor is useless.
This week you sent out that video on doing the manifolds on that Dakota while I was doing it too in my shop and here I go searching for this job thinking I would buy that Dorman handle… but this video made me not want to do it, I just ordered a used colour match part from a Southern state off Ebay. It's rust free, unlike the Jeep I'm working on.
A real mechanic
Hi
What is that siren I always here?
The push those clips through I use a socket or tube the size of the hole the clip goes through press down on it and it will compress the clip and it will come out
Next time take a Phillips screwdriver about the same circumference and slide it in from the other side of your long pin that way you can load your spring then slide the pin through the spring pushing the screwdriver out of the way easy peasy
It is stupid! Agreed
cut it drill it put a cotter pin in it lol
Did the owner(s) of that vehicle never spray any silicone on that hinge, or get a drop of 3-in-1 in it?
Dorman is absolute junk
cut the pin longer and put a new circlip groove in with a hacksaw?
You can buy better, but you can’t pay more 😂
Hey Eric O I would have cut the hole a little bigger to fit the oversized Dorman part in stead of cutting and welding the washer on the rod.
I would move there- almost – just ti have my car taken care there.
At least “Doormat” is consistent. And most of their stuff now is Made in China. Just total crap. Wouldn’t buy a cotter pin from them. Sorry about that. Nice guy trying to help a customer and gets the Dorman shaft once again. W no lube of course.
This is why I always get the OEM part, even if it "costs more", it usually doesn't in the long run, as far as making sure it first right the first time and avoids the need for a re-repair in the future.
Dowels have been around for longer than dorman and they still can’t get it right. Heck, even the concept of proper length.
Dorman used to be USA now China shit been in auto business 35 years f all China shit
I know this is an old video but I've got a funny. 2000 Dakota 4.7L 200,000 miles. Runs great but the electric radiator fan quit working. Got a new one ((Dorman)) with a lifetime warranty, 2 days later started vibrating terribly like a bearing was going out. Took it back and got another since it's warranted for life. One week later and this one's worse than the first one. Taking it back tomorrow and trying to find an OEM one. Thankfully this isn't my daily driver.
When only the worst will do
Dorman Products – Thankfully, NOT A SPONSOR !!
Ppl dont relize. It's the former HELP center at auto store. Window cranks mostlyRed package. Emblazoned HELP. Now Dorman… Make plastic intake for Domestic vehicles. Bc no one else will
Shoulda jut slotted the opening larger
Just cut the gate….
Went through 3 doorman inside handles for a 91 Camry. I kept ordering left, they were marked left and did not fit. Ordered a right side and it fit perfectly on the left, front and rear doors. Just can’t find Toyota OEM for a 91 anymore. She shows her age but still goes and blows cold AC. Helps she’s a standard
On the rod that was a quarter inch too long, I would have notched the tailgate and been done with it! Next time it got replaced would have been an easy job. The notch would have gone to the wrecking yard with the rest of the vehicle!
I have bought one good dorman part in the last few years. It was a washer nozzle. All the rest – nope.
I’ve actually had good luck with Dorman window motors. Thanks for sharing.
made in china
Dorman parts are trash when i used to work at oreilly auto parts.people would buy those shitty parts. And come back next day to get another one since they fail so often.
I personally would have widened the tailgate hole. But that's just me.
I'm very surprised you still have all your fingers attached after that demo.
I just bought my first Dorman product, a door latch. It was nice, fit perfectly, and my wife won’t have to climb in through the back seat.
I would just not use the tailgate ever again. This repair would not be worth it to me if I knew the car only had about 2 more useful years.
Learned my lesson with a Dorman intake manifold on my 5.4 .. The seal blew out in a week and I gave upon the trying to get them to honor their warranty . I will never buy another Dorman product . Went back with the Ford intake and haven’t had a problem since ..