Vehicle_door

A car door is generally an opening to enter to the car (or their compartments or partition), often equipped with a hinged or sliding panel which can be moved to leave the opening accessible, or to close it more or less securely.

Brakes

Car doors generally include a three-stage door brake.

Parts

• Car glass
• Door handles
• Door switch (simple on/off mechanism ; when the car door is open, the switch is off).
• Running board
• Passenger side dash mounted storage box.

Situations

• Front door
• Rear door
• Trunk or boot

Types

• Manual
• Electric (power opening and closing).

Number of doors

Cars are usually sold as "two-door" or "four-door" models, or in some places as "three-door" or "five-door" models. In the case of an odd number of doors, the number includes the trunk or boot door, so a three-door car has two front doors plus the trunk, and a five-door car has two front doors, two rear doors and the trunk.

Being doored

Cyclists refer to colliding with an open car door as "being doored".get doored (verb). Word Spy. Retrieved on 2007-10-30. This usually happens when the cyclist is biking alongside a row of parallel-parked cars, and a driver suddenly opens his or her door immediately in front of the cyclist.

See also

• Automobile
• sliding doors
• Butterfly doors
• Gull-wing door
• Scissor doors
• Suicide door
• List of cars with unusual door designs

References

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