So here’s something you’ve probably seen over and over again and never really considered – the metal loop buck on your car door frame! The little impression on the body of the car where the door latch catches. Just about everyone has bumped against this with their body on the way in or out, if not bumped elbows a few times, and I wonder if you ever asked yourself, what is that thing for?
Most likely you did not – perhaps you think it’s just part of the door latch mechanism, you just didn’t think about it. Which is not completely incorrect but somewhat missing the point, because that little unassuming hook does a lot of work, figuratively and literally.
Like, really, it’s called a door striker technically—sometimes it’s called a latch striker depending on who you ask—and while it looks pretty basic, it does a few important things that you maybe did not know about: some are critical if you want to keep the door literally attached in the event of something terrible.
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