Hi to all. Need a bit of help. Does any one have a drivers side door striker plate for sale suitable for my Warwick. I have seen from this great site where it comes from and investigating this avenue. Aslo not being too mechanical how does it work, the door lock mechnisum aslo seems to be a bit not working. I look forward to any help. Thanks in advance Duncan
OK Duncan, more info on "not working" is required. Not opening, not closing, not latching, etc?
Remember that if you push the inner door handle forward, the drivers door locks, and can't be opened from the outside.
If you still have all the bits of the cast striker plate, it's fixable. Usually they come in two halves when the door drops and the alignment pin on the lock plate bangs against it as the door closes.
One of my striker plates was in two bits and was rebuilt using "Lumiweld" from Frost restoration. It wasn't very difficult, I cleaned up the bits and sort of floated them into position in a shallow pool of molten weld, resting on a bit of asbestos sheet, then tidied up the resulting blob with a file. Providing you put a steel reinforcing plate behind the GRP when you put it back, then it seems to last OK. I manage without the anti-rattle springs, it doesn't notice amongst all the other rattles.
If you manage to source another striker plate we will all want to know where you got it from!
If you visit the "Wotsitoff" list under Spares on this website, you'll see the door striker plates come from a Wolseley 1500, Riley 1,5 and the Austin A50. This was very helpfull for me some time ago, because i had two broken and badly worn striker plates. I was lucky two find a near new set on Ebay for some 8 pound, including both "racks" which hold the doorlock. I'm sure the doorlocks are also from the same type of cars. You should be able to find some spares through clubs of these makes.
I've opened up my doorlocks, and they where full of dirt and hardened grease which almost blocked the system. If your problem is in the lock, maybe a good cleaning of it would solve it. After i cleaned my locks and greased them they where working like new.
Hi thanks for all the info. It will not close and catch correctly. All i can describe it bounces open when I try to close it.
