car door pins?

[johnakay]

on the old cars they use to use a harden pin with a split down the middle.
when you knock then into the hinges,
what are the correct name for them(not solid pins.
got it roll pin. couldn't remember what you call them

 

[Paul.]

Roll pins

 

[Onoff]

There's scroll pins too...

 

[123hotchef]

they are tappered to aint they?

 

[wristpin]

Or even Spirol pins. (like Swiss rolls)!

 

[Johnnybravo]

Selock pins

 

[bricol]

My first car (Renault 11) used them - and they were a right pain to get out without the right tool. Saw the right tool in use at a breakers, so bought one at the first opportunity afterwards.

33 yrs later, I have never used it . . . no car I've owned since has used them . . .

 

[Onoff]

My first car (Renault 11) used them - and they were a right pain to get out without the right tool. Saw the right tool in use at a breakers, so bought one at the first opportunity afterwards.

33 yrs later, I have never used it . . . no car I've owned since has used them . . .

In Kim Henson's book on restoring Capris I think he shows how to make a tool out of a bit of flat bar and bent rod. Basically you put the rod on the door pin then you hammer on the flat bar well away from the door.