GTA Doors

Both my doors lower hinges have split the fiberglass holding them inplace.
Thats inside the door not the car pillar.

Having spoken to Richard Walsh who scares me with repairing them by cutting a hole in the outside of the door.

To Paul Sage who mention cutting in from the inside of the door.

Both doors are now off, and i can now see the problem the GRP that the hinge is bonded to is split around where it is bonded to the outer door and inner door.

My question is has anyone else repaired this and do they have a more detailed description on how they repaired this.

Such as should i remove the hinge i have undone the bolts but it appears to be bonded in as well? The danger in removing the hinge is will i be able to line it up in exactly the same place?

Is it possible to inject glue where the crack is and then to strengthen the whole hinge area, fill the void the hinge sits in in order to allow the inner door skin take some of the load as well?

Any help and advice would be appreciated, as i have an alpine door parts depot scattered around my dinning room at present.

Dave

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Yours for £50 delivered to you Might be good for experimenting on before knackering your doors?

With regards to repair, it's a bigger of a job that I have never attempted and don't wish to either.

I have seen lot's of attempts though. It seems the best effort is to cut into the door to re-bond and bolt as the 2 experts have said.

Paul Sage did the doors on my ex GTA Turbo.
Complely cut away the fibreglass, inserted metal plate sections, and rebuilt with new fibreglass over the top. Then resprayed.
Top job, and seemed to be much stronger than the factory hinges.

Funny that me and Jon are looking at plates at the moment.
One to run vertical the other to Run horizontal.

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be careful of cutting holes-on both of my doors you can clearly see two square patches top and bottom.
the repairs was done before i had my car,dont know if it should long lasting solution but my drivers door has all split at the hinges again and the door drops by 3 inches.
Dont know if there is any other solution tho'.