Artsifrtsi
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- Jude
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Sorry for this.Sad to say this... these doors hung happily on the ORC Stowaway for days. The problem came when I tried to take one down. It's on the left, driver's side, rear seat. As I went to lift it out of the hinges, the entire thing ripped out of my wall, and all 4 doors collapsed on top of each other on the mostly (aside from the cardboard in the picture) concrete floor.
The drivers door has a horrible bend now at the lower corner, the passenger door escaped any real damage as far as I can tell, but the two rear doors sustained multiple scuffs, dents, and creases.
We've gone back over the install -- stud finder still says all 4 holes were in line with the stud, the holes left in the wall have both sheetrock and wood dust in them, and the bolts were cinched in well enough to leave round indents on the mounting brace.
So, either the stud finder is wrong, or maybe the alignment was off just enough for the lag bolts to only partially catch the stud -- or the bolts weren't long enough to begin with.
I have not contacted the dealer yet -- I'm sure they'll tell me it was a bad install -- and maybe it was -- but I can't say I can see from what was left in the aftermath what exactly may have been done incorrectly. It's worth noting they held up ok while I hung the doors, and held the doors without pulling out for several days after, so you'd expect there had to be more than sheetrock holding them from the start, but nevertheless, with 300 lbs of doors bouncing off the concrete floor (with me under them) something definitely went wrong.
When I install anything that is heavy on the wall, I locate the studs (2 to 3 of them) and slap a chunk of 3/4 plywood on using 4 x 2 1/2" screws on each stud, then secure my brackets to the plywood. I have done this on TV's, and in the garage for heavy items. Gives a lot better mounting surface to bite into, and also allows for more fine tuning of where you want the item to hang.
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