Thread: COTF Door Hinges
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Old 4 Mar 2014, 00:20 (Ref:3374646)   #6
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Originally Posted by Umai Naa View Post
3 of the 4 doors are of composite material.

Wouldnt matter how the hinges are designed, they're coming off in an accident.
Didn't a driver's door come off an HRT car at Bathurst one year, during the pitstop?

I wouldn't like to lean on a current V8SC door when its open.. I reckon it would bend like alfoil...
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