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is my review of the McGard High-Security Door Hinge Locks, fitting all 1997 to 2006 TJs. From the factory, our doors are held onto
the hinge with just one retaining nut per hinge, and once that nut is removed and the
door is opened, the door can easily be lifted off and taken. So, if you want to make sure that nobody walks
away with your full steel doors, half steel doors, or tube doors, a set of locking nuts
like these are definitely a good idea. There are a couple of different methods for
keeping your doors in place and keeping someone from walking away with them, but I really
like these because they're a little less expensive than others and they blend right in.
Some of the other options are big and bulky. These are nice and compact. McGard is known for making really high-quality
wheel locks and other security products, and these are no different. They're made of a hardened steel, and there's
no way you're going to remove these without the key.
They have a spinning collar on the outside,
so if someone were to grab them with a set of vise grips or channel locks, they're just
going to spin that collar and not be able to remove the nut itself. A really nice feature of these is that they're
made of the same material that those OE door nuts are made out of, so you don't have to
worry about any corrosion between the two materials like you would sometimes otherwise
get with two different metals that are touching. Getting these installed on the Jeep is a really
simple process. All you need to do is first remove the OE
door nuts.
The only difficult part about that is the
nut is really close to the door, so you will want to have either a thin wall socket or
a swivel socket on hand to keep from marring the paint on the door. Once that nut is removed, you can install
these locking nuts with the included key. The key has a built-in quarter-inch drive
square on the bottom of it, so it makes it really easy to get them installed. The whole installation process shouldn't take
you more than 15 minutes, and you won't need any specialty tools, just a socket to remove
your factory nut and a quarter-inch drive to install the new ones.
I think these are really reasonably priced
for what they are. There are some door lock mechanisms that are
big and bulky, and even more expensive than these, and there are some options that actually
have padlocks hanging off the side of your Jeep. And again, some of those are more expensive
than these. These are really reasonably priced for an
item that is hardened steel, that is going to hold up for a really long time and not
corrode, and is going to keep your doors where you put them.
So, whether you're running full doors, half
doors, or tube doors, and you have some concerns about somebody walking off with them, a good
high-quality set of locking door hinge nuts like these will keep your doors where you
put them. And these ones will save you some money over
some of the larger and more cumbersome locking mechanisms. So, that's my review of the McGard High-Security
Door Hinge Locks, fitting all 1997 to 2006 TJs, that you can find right here at ExtremeTerrain.Com..
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