Life hack for a Priora car: how to choose a Lambo door

Modern car tuning is becoming more and more in demand as the domestic model range is replenished with new VAZ models.

Naturally, car tuning should be not only beautiful, but also practical, since a domestic car is not a luxury item, but a vehicle for daily use. Today the price of a Lambo door on a Priora reaches 30,000 thousand rubles, and in some cases more.

The price of such an issue depends entirely on the cost of a set of Lambo door mechanisms. It is possible to make such loops yourself, but the accuracy and labor intensity of the process will ultimately force you to resort to purchasing a ready-made kit.

A set of Lambo door mechanisms, or rather the ability to buy Lambo hinges on a Priora, completely depends on the completeness of the package, as well as the quality of the material used in the manufacture of hinges, fasteners, bearings, etc.

Among the already tested kits, we can highlight the products of the AvtoTK company. The price of the kit produced by AvtoTK will be about 15,000 rubles. It is worth noting that this is not the only manufacturer, but the pricing policy of all is approximately the same.

Technical parameters of a set of Lambo door mechanisms for Lada Priora

The final price of the purchased product depends on the technical parameters. Technical parameters that you should pay attention to when installing Lambo doors on a Priora:

• type of metal used: 45 steel;

• number of bearings (needle bearings): two bearings;

• needle bearings 941 (20*26*14) (two pieces);

• maximum permissible weight of the lifted structure: 94 kilograms;

• movement in gr. square: possible (from 0 to 30 gr.);

• movement in time. square: possible (from 0 to 90 gr.);

• fixation in a vertical position: possible;

• presence of adjustments for door movement angle limiters: present in the standard set.

It is worth noting the need to install gas supports (similar to those installed to secure the tailgate). The cost of installing a lambo door on a Priora increases as gas stops are selected.

During the installation process, they resort to the use of stops, which, in turn, are designed for doors weighing less than 45 kg and, naturally, more than 45 kg. If we are talking about gas stops for doors weighing more than 45 kg, then another 2,695 rubles must be added to the cost of the kit itself (15,000 thousand).

If we are talking about a weight of less than 45 kg, then you still need to add 2,195 rubles to the fixed cost. Before making Lambo doors on a Priora, you need to decide on all the expense items.

The process of installing a Lambo door on a Priora with your own hands

Installing Lambo doors on a Priora with your own hands is quite a troublesome task, which, in turn, requires not only the skills of an auto mechanic, but also accurate calculations. It is the use of high-quality hinges, the set of which was mentioned above, that will prevent backlash and rattling when opening/closing.

Removing the front fenders

The need for dismantling will allow you to gain access to the car pillars, on which the hinge installation itself will be carried out. Installation (selection of the installation location) is carried out taking into account the following points:

– tight fit of the door to the sealing elements; – lack of contact with the body at the time of opening/closing; – the installation process must be combined with body reinforcement elements.

Body reinforcement

Ignoring this point may lead to body deformation. To avoid this, it is necessary to resort to the use of a metal channel, the thickness of which is at least 3 mm.

Lambo door reinforcement

Mounting bolts are one of the main aspects of fastening the entire structure. It is the strengthening of the door that is the second aspect of installation.

Using (sticking) marks for installation accuracy

Gluing marks on the arch and the door itself will allow you to center the door upon completion of installation. Stickers are included in the price of the installation kit. This step cannot be skipped, since an uncentered door will prevent normal opening/closing.

Purchased and self-made hinges

In order to tune a car, you will need to make Lambo hinges yourself or buy ready-made ones. It is advisable to first find out how much Lambo hinges cost in order to estimate the possible cost.

Making Lambo hinges for fastening doors

If you have the skills to perform plumbing work, you can try to make Lambo hinges with your own hands. To do this, you will need to find a drawing of a hinge suitable for a specific car model and purchase the necessary materials. You will need sheet metal and a gas shock absorber with the required rod length and load capacity.

Installation of Lambo hinges on Priora

The process of installing a Lambo hinge on a Priora must be carried out using a welding machine or suitable bolts. Using a welding machine is a more reliable fastening option.

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Setting the opening/closing mechanism

During the adjustment process, it is necessary to use movable bolts.

Installation of gas shock absorbers

The process of installing gas shock absorbers is carried out taking into account their permissible maximum stretch. When the door is open, the gas shock absorbers should be stretched as much as possible, and when the door is closed, they should not interfere with contact with the sealing material. It is also worth paying attention to the need for installation in such a way that the shock absorbers do not touch one to one.

Installing fenders on a car

The wings are installed in the same way as the dismantling process. After installing and laying the seal, it is necessary to test the assembled structure.

Installing a Lambo yourself.

You can install Lambo in specialized auto repair shops, or yourself. When choosing the first option, you should be prepared for factors such as:

1. Wasting a lot of money.
2. The waiting period is up to six months.
3. The total cost of work, which reaches 50 thousand rubles.

Therefore, you should pay attention to the second option. The biggest advantage of Lambos is the ability to mount them on absolutely any car.

Thus, even a person with average income and an old, Soviet-era car can turn it into a car a la Lamborghini.

Installation of the mechanism consists of several stages:

1. Drawing up a diagram.
2. Making loops.
3. Their location on the door and attachment to the car.

An example of how to make a Lambo on a VAZ can be seen in the video or learned from the article.

Among the disadvantages of installing a Lambo door on a Priora are the following:

• full cost of components and installation cost (if installation is carried out at a service station);

• lack of use in rooms where the height does not allow the lambo door to be fully opened (the problem is solved by installing limiters);

• inconvenience of use on daily trips.

There are ways to tune a Priora car to make your car different from others and stand out on the road. These are all kinds of lighting, body kits, headlights, exhaust system upgrades and many others. Lambo doors change the entire concept of the car and make it exclusive.

The hand of a master can touch both the exterior and the interior. Probably one of the unusual ways to decorate your car is to install a Lambo door on a Priora. Price with installation is more than 20,000 rubles.

Wanting to install these devices, owners are faced with a painful choice: do it themselves, or outsource the work to a car service center. If you carefully understand each operation and the intricacies of installing a new door mount, there will be no problems - just treat your favorite car with due sensitivity, and the new product will definitely please you.

Advantages and disadvantages

Lambo-type sash models have several advantages:

• maneuverability increases (you can drive a car with the door open);
• it becomes possible to park in narrow places;
• The Lambo hinge is installed in the same place as a regular one, so the “butterfly” design can be easily converted from the classic one.

Disadvantages of an upward opening door:

• there is a problem with opening a door with a lambo hinge in a low garage;
• the cost of Lambo hinges is higher than conventional equipment for car doors;
• To check the operation of the mechanism or install it, you must seek help from a service station with experienced auto mechanics.

Lambo door kits – article number, price, manufacturers

Contacting a car dealer will lead you to be horrified - the price with installation is almost twice as much as a regular set of tuning hinges. Technically, these parts can be made independently, but due to the complexity of the design, it is worth abandoning this idea. If you want to save money, buy used parts.

• The most popular is AutoTK. The article number of the kit with gas stops for doors weighing more than 45 kg is 1000001764. Cost is 10,377 rubles. If the weight is less than 45 kg, the price will drop to 9,744 rubles. Without gas stops - 7,333 rubles.
• Universal kit Hofer LH-1. Cost – about 15,000 rubles.

Many people praise the kit from AutoTK: if you do it yourself, you can make a mistake of just a couple of millimeters, and then constantly listen to the creak when closing and opening the door. So far there have been no complaints about the quality of this company's products.

Malfunctions - what can break

First of all, it is necessary to dispel the myth that they break almost immediately: after three weeks they really need to be adjusted. The hinges will “sag” a little under pressure, so their position needs to be adjusted.

Another point is related to the untidiness of passengers. Not only do they manage to break the handles of standard doors, the urge to pull the handle towards yourself with all your might does not fade away with tuned parts: if they are pulled too hard, forcing them to move in a horizontal plane, the mechanism becomes loose.

There are several common problems that owners of tuned Priors face:

• If the machine sits idle for a long time, the hinges sag a lot.
• An open door will swing, thereby wearing out the mechanism more. There's nothing to be done about it.
• In winter, they should not be opened too suddenly. This also applies to sudden ascents. Frosty weather is shock absorbers' worst enemy.

What to look for when choosing a lambo door installation kit

When choosing VAZ components, three options for lambo doors are usually considered:

• 130 degrees. The standard is only 90 degrees. When, with the help of modifications, it was possible to increase the turning angle by 40 degrees, it became more convenient to get out and get into the car - this is evidenced by the reviews of the owners.
• VLS. The opening mechanism is as follows: first you need to pull them towards you by the handle, and then lift them up. Structurally simpler, but no less reliable.
• Hybrid lambo doors. They can move in both planes - horizontally or vertically.

As for the Priora, VLS doors are most suitable for it. They are characterized by the following characteristics:

• Metal: steel with 0.45% carbon.
• Bearings: needle. Type: 941. Dimensions: 20 mm x 26 mm x 14 mm. Quantity: 2.
• Load capacity: 95 kg.
• Angle of movement in the horizontal plane: 30 degrees.
• Angle of movement in the vertical plane: 90 degrees.
• Possibility of fixing at the top point: present.

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Installation work

The preparatory stage of installing Priora lambo doors is as follows:

1. Place the car on a level surface and apply the handbrake.
2. Remove the front doors, then you need to remove the front fenders. Below them will be your work area - a piece of metal above the wheel arch.
3. Place marks for installation accuracy. In essence, this is similar to installing door hinges for interior doors, just keep in mind that it should not touch the body when moving, and also fit tightly to the seals - otherwise you will experience all the delights of a trip with raindrops.
4. Place a channel - a metal plate 3 mm thick - in the intended place, this will strengthen the body.

Door installation steps

First you will need to make the actual loops. To do this, you will need an experienced turner who will make them according to the drawings you provide. Drawings can be found on the Internet.

Preparatory stage

The hinges are attached to the body in three ways, either by bolts, or by welding, or a combination. The most reliable method is a combined one. You first install the hinges on the bolts, and after adjusting them, weld them together.

These doors will serve you for as long as possible. True, in this case you may need either a welder or a welding machine. Therefore, this method is not always suitable.

After you have decided on the option of mounting the hinges, remove the front fenders of the car.

Clean the area where the hinges are mounted under the wings. For this operation you will need a grinder. If the place where the hinges are attached falls under an uneven part of the body and trim, then a metal plate will need to be welded to this place.

In general, the installation location of the hinges under the wings should be reinforced in any case, since according to the design of the car, the thickness of the metal in these places is insufficient. When making homemade hinges, you will need shock absorbers to hold the doors.

In general, the order of preliminary work when installing lambo hinges looks like this:

1. We remove the fender of the car,
2. We remove the doors
3. We disassemble the doors
4. We strengthen the place where the hinges are attached under the wing.

Installing hinges

The hinges must be installed as high as possible so that the doors close as tightly as possible and do not touch parts of the car body. Mainly the hood. Another important nuance is maintaining body rigidity. The fact is that during installation you will have to cut the front pillar. After this, you definitely need to strengthen this place. Typically, a 3 mm thick channel is used for this.

After installing the hinges, you need to install shock absorbers

During their installation, you need to pay attention to the fact that when the doors are open, the shock absorber rods are fully extended

Hinge installation procedure:

At the place where the hinges are attached under the wing, we mount a hinge with bolts, We cut out part of the door pillar and reinforce this place, either with a channel with a wall thickness of 3 mm, or with sheets of steel of the same thickness, while carefully scalding them, We mount the door part of the hinge, We measure out the places where the shock absorbers are attached, two pieces per hinge and reinforced with a sheet of metal with a thickness of 3 mm, Assemble the hinge and connect it to the doors, Adjust the doors

We draw attention to the fact that the door does not touch any parts of the body. First of all, the hood or windshield frame, we mount shock absorbers, we check the operation of the door with shock absorbers.

How to put

Installation of Priora lambo doors is carried out as follows:

1. Place special stickers on the wheel arch and then on the door - this will help correct its position.
2. The installation of the lamp loop can be done with bolts or welding. In an amicable way, you can first fix them with bolts, and after adjustments based on the results of a couple of weeks of use, weld them.
3. Install gas shock absorbers so that when the doors are at their highest point, they should be fully open.
4. Try moving the lambo doors. If everything works, install the fenders to check if the doors are touching the body.

Swing door leaf

Any canvas can be used: panel, panel, all-glass, with an aluminum or plastic profile. There are no restrictions. But the glass door looks most impressive. It seems to float in the opening, because there is no frame... Based on the number of panels, swing doors are divided into single-leaf and double-leaf. More fabrics are not used. If a one-and-a-half door is needed, its wide leaf is made pendulum, and the narrow one is made swing.

Restaurants, cafes and bars often have swing doors with a porthole.

Attention! A swing door cannot be installed in a frame for a regular swing door!

Lada Priora Lambo doors

Lambo doors are a well-known car door design. The main difference between such doors and ordinary ones is that they open upward. For this purpose, a special design is used, which is based on only one hinge. In our article you will learn how to make a Lambo door with your own hands, how to install a Lambo door on a VAZ, as well as other useful information about this element of car tuning.

Why should you contact us to install lambo doors?

• The most important thing is that we ourselves develop and produce Lambo doors. This means that we know how to install them correctly.
• Design support. If necessary, a set of lambo hinges can be modified to suit your car.
• Professionalism. The large number of installed kits allowed us to gain invaluable experience, thanks to which the mechanisms operate much more reliably.
• Constant improvement and refinement of the Lambo Star Pro door mechanism makes it more versatile and durable. Our designers, if necessary, immediately make changes. We cooperate with many tuning centers, which also help make the mechanism better and more reliable.

Very few Moscow tuning centers offer such conditions for installing door lamps. By contacting us, you receive high-quality installed hinges and full support.

A little history

Such doors were first used on the Alfa Romeo Carabo prototype back in the late 60s of the last century. At that time, this decision made an unforgettable impression on the public. This type of design is still liked by many motorists, which is why Lambo doors can be seen even on regular mass-produced models.

Types of Lambo doors:

• 130 degrees;
• VLS doors;
• hybrid solution.

Doors that open at a 130-degree angle are usually installed on tuned cars. Standard Lambo doors have a rotation angle of 90 degrees, but in some models it can even reach 130. The advantage of this design is that there are no problems when getting in/out of the car, compared to standard Lambo doors.

VLS doors are so-called scissor doors. They are designed in such a way that they first need to be opened slightly outward (like regular doors), and then lifted up. Such self-made Lambo doors provide the ability to release the A-pillar, as well as the door frame.

Hybrid doors are a truly unique solution, because they can be opened both horizontally and vertically. They are used by those who appreciate the advantages of two types of car doors.

It is noteworthy that on many production cars with standard doors, it is quite possible to make Lambo doors. For example, very often this solution is used by owners of VAZ cars. We will mention more details about how to make Lambo doors on a VAZ (read the Lada Priora review here) at the end of the article.

Classification

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Depending on the type of installation, the following model drawings are distinguished:

• welded They are attached by welding, which sometimes causes inconvenience during installation;
• fastened with bolts. The bolts are installed on standard or car-drilled holes.

The variety of mechanisms and possibilities of how many degrees the doors open has led to the existence of the following mechanisms:

at 130 degrees. This design is used to create minimal obstacles when getting out of the car and is a modified version of the “scissors” model;

Lambo door mechanism

VLS doors (“scissors”). Their drawings provide for opening the car components, first a little outward, and then upward. This approach allows you to free up the front pillar and door frame;

Mechanism of the German company LSD

a hybrid of ordinary doors and “scissors”. They open both vertically and horizontally, which does not interfere with exiting the car and at the same time frees up the door frame.

Hybrid door mechanism

Owners of domestically produced cars can install a similar mechanism. Many people are interested in how much effort it takes and how much it costs. If you have the skills of a turner-milling machine, have a friend with experience in this field, and also purchased the necessary materials yourself, then production will cost you several thousand rubles (purchased Lambo doors cost several tens of thousands, which is an exorbitant amount for a domestic car). Plus, due to the location of the hinges on domestic cars, you won't need to make a lot of adjustments to get the doors to open upwards.

Is it worth making lambo doors?

Like any design, Lambo doors have certain pros and cons. And we decided to start with the shortcomings.

Disadvantages of Lambo doors:

• Problems when storing a car in a garage.
• Needs careful use. Passengers often want to open the door, but do so not very carefully, which leads to deformation of the hinge.
• The swinging of an open door, and it is impossible to get rid of it.
• Problematic use in winter. The door must not be lifted sharply when the air temperature drops below zero, since otherwise the shock absorbers will quickly fail.

Disadvantages of kits for installing “universal type” Lambo doors:

• installation will have to be carried out in other places, for which it is necessary to weld the end part of the door (otherwise, due to the large mass of the door, the foam may simply be torn out);
• to install hinges, it is often necessary to disassemble the dashboard;
• To install a hinge inside a car fender, sometimes you need to cut the body pillar;
• Sometimes, in order to open Lambo doors normally, you need to “inflate” the wings.

Advantages of installing lambo doors:

• attractive appearance;
• no problems getting on/off at the parking lot.

Myths about Lambo doors:

• dirt will flow into the car, as well as onto the clothes of the driver and passengers (in reality there are no such problems);
• problems with entry/exit (every person who has at least once tried to do this in a car with such doors will easily refute this myth).

Note that Lamborghini cars use a simple hinge that facilitates the movement of the door in a vertical plane. It is impossible to implement a similar idea on almost all cars due to the different door design. The Lambo hinges first open to the side, and only after that the doors rise.

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History of the origin of lambo doors

It is believed that these doors, which captured hearts and minds, were born due to the world famous Lamborghini, a company located in the region of the same name in Italy. Futuristic guillotine doors were installed for the first time on a production Countach. They are known abroad as "Scissordoors, Lambodoors and Lamborghinidoors".

The palm in the innovative approach rightfully belongs to the manufacturer Alfa Romeo. After all, it was on their Carabo concept car, produced in 1968, that similar doors were installed. The designer and developer of the mechanism was Marcello Gandini. This model was designed for purely practical reasons: a planted sports car had little rear visibility, and it was safer to back up with the door raised and your head outside the car.

Of course, this element carries not only an aesthetic, but also a practical load. Thus, the door design allows for unhindered parking in narrow spaces. But, of course, they install them precisely to add spice to their car.

Types of Lambo doors.

There are three types of Lambo devices:

• standard modification;
• lambo installation with scissor effect;
• mixed modification.

With the standard modification, the door opens at an angle of 130 degrees. Such a mechanism can only be installed on a regular car by seriously modifying it. However, it is not difficult. The most important thing is to make the loops. The advantages of this modification: low cost, quick opening of the mechanism.

Lambo installation with a scissor effect differs from the standard: it opens to the side, then upward by 80-130 degrees. This type is simpler and, as a rule, its installation can be done both by the car owner himself, who wants to make the car unique, and by employees of specialized auto repair shops.

Hybrid Lambos are a combination of the first two types, which means that they can open to the side or up. This type is the most perfect, although it requires some effort and a large investment of money for the manufacture of parts and installation of doors.