Door skin and dew strip not lining up by about 3/4 inch at top, new dew strip, passenger side lines up nicely.

Guessing you have a gap betwen the skin and the strip? Sounds like you don't have the top of the skin locked onto the door top...

Strange thing is it's not a gap between the dew strip and the door. It's a gap between the top of the dew strip and the top of the door. The door skin and the dew strip are sealed against each other. And the door skin is aligned fairly well with the surrounding panels. It looks almost if the steel part of the door has been manufactured badly. There's no apparent damage to the door. The car has only about 56,000 miles on it. I may have misspoke my distance originally, went had another look it looks like the differences about 1/4 inch. I imagine a picture would tell 1000 words I shall try that. Problems getting the time I suppose.

Yes think we need a picture. You installed the dew strip on the inside of the door next to the glass, correct? Not on the outside of the metal part of the door?

I'm pretty sure I got mounted the right way. Did it the same way I did the passenger side, and it looks good. This dew strip was like this before I remove the old one. Got a couple pretty good pictures, but I need a study on how to post them.

Easy way is to go here and upload you photo then paste the link created into your post.

Your photo has to be less then 100K in size. It's the shortcut to what the forum PIP uses.

http://myfiero.com/imagehost.php

Or you can also use a site like Photobucket but then if your account goes away the photos will not be available on PPF.

[This message has been edited by Dodgerunner (edited 01-06-2013).]

As I hope you can see the seal the edge on the dew wipe is resting against the inner side of the door panel. On the passenger side the dew panel rests at the top edge of the panel.

The red arrow points to the inner lip of the door skin - it appears that it is not hooked over the inside of the door frame!


Because you have the door skin bolts in place, the door seam would probably look like it's aligned ok but the top of the door skin - in the back / top is not hooked on the door frame correctly.

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Thanks

I see what you mean. I have a door apart right now. I'll have to take a look when I get home from work and see what might be going on.
Do you recall if it was that way before you changed it?

You haven't said: Is your Fiero an '84 or a later model? The upper skin attach for the '84 doors is different than in later years.

1985 SE and yes was that way when I took it apart.

So here is the door on an 87 coupe but yours should be the same. Not that it makes any difference but this is the Pass. door.
Runs around a 1/4" or less the length of the door. Another idea did you use new screws as in my picture? I have not cut these off yet but they might be holding the skin from dropping all the way into the slot.



Now the piece that holds the skin is spot welded onto the door. Wonder if yours got bent out or is loose somehow.



BTY the dew wipe is one I made myself from the same material as DIT-Stu's.

[This message has been edited by Dodgerunner (edited 01-09-2013).]

Mine from Fiero Store. Skin is loose at top. I can press it tighter into door. Looks like thing to do is take it off and see. Thanks