If you read the car owner book, you never find the instruction “close hard your car’s door”.If you close hard, you are damaging the the door mechanism.
Not everyone slams their car doors shut. If people are closing yours harder than you like, ask them to quit doing it.
My kids were always taught not to slam any door. Of course, if they were mad… but that didn’t happen very often.
I’m not sure it’s just in the east coast, but the cars wobble when the people close the door.
I hate car doors slammed shut.
I wear hearing aids and it can be super loud.
I love this post! I’m always bracing myself whenever I drop kids off and sometimes I have been known to roll the window down and say, “Hey! If you slam it just a bit harder next time, the door will actually fall off here in front of your school.” :-j
The sound of the car door closing is the sound of quality. Nothing better than a big heavy thud.
Hhhmmmm, I have never paid particular attention to the relative force used when closing a car door, perhaps because I am more focused on other things such as making sure the car door doesn’t bump into the neighboring car or watching for other cars pulling in or out or passing by so that I or my children do not get struck by another car or watching that I am not accosted by someone in a darkened parking or city street, or carrying things in my hands.
We just purchased a new Jeep, and you have to slam your he door or it doesn’t completely close.
Never considered it before. I guess I might be listening now if I remember this thread. We’ve never had door problems in our vehicles, so I doubt it’s too big of a problem - or we’re not door slammers. We often buy used and one of ours is a 1997 Ford F150 still in use. Another is a 2002 Ford Focus.
@yourmomma “the damage” is a polite manner to say the demonstration of a car quality affects the quality of my ears. Hahaha.
This one is the things that irritate me the most.
Probably is cultural, in my country this demostration, can be dangerous, you slammed de door and the taxy driver can slamm you.
I once had a car that REQUIRED you to slam it very hard or it wouldn’t close. It became habit, understandably. Our family took a cruise one year and when I got out of a taxi at one of the Caribbean islands we visited, I slammed the car door hard as usual. That taxi driver got REALLY mad at me!
“why the people in US close so hard the car’s doors?”
Easy answer. It’s a wealthy country and many households own multiple cars (often more cars than drivers per household) and change cars very often (compared to other countries), so why would they care. I’ve noticed that many car maintenance steps have also been ignored. And many cars are filthy inside - this is something I could never fathom in my home country where car ownership always was a status symbol. Sometimes I still can not believe that I own a car, since even a cheap family car was an unaffordable luxury when I grew up.
We have three cars in our family of four drivers. One is a large SUV with heavy doors, one is sedan and the other a Jeep. The SUV doors, because of their weight, require a little more push than our other two cars. Sometimes I notice when I’m driving the sedan or Jeep, my kids will slam the door, but I realized it’s not intentional. They are used to being in my SUV and having to push the doors harder to close them and tend to forget this isn’t necessary when in our other two cars.
I drive carpool a lot with other kids outside our family and more often than not, they do not push the door hard enough in my SUV and end up having to reopen the door in order to properly close it. I have never noticed slamming doors to be a widespread oroblem in the US.
I have never noticed slamming car doors as an issue. I do have to re-shut doors when folks don’t do it because they’re used to doors that automatically close for them.
Closing car doors? What is that? I push a button, and my Tesla opens and closes it for me. 
Gently.
But dang. I have to work with my dumbbells to keep my arms toned.
@BunsenBurner Hahahaha.
That’s the idea, with hands or buttons but gently.
If a person is used to closing the doors of a vehicle that’s well insulated and airtight with the windows up, they’ll be used to needing more force to close the door. Many luxury vehicles often are more insulated and airtight, and may even have cushioning or dampening that further softens the closing action. So people going from a vehicle like that with the windows up may accidentally use enough force to rattle the windows of an older, uninsulated, tin can vehicle that has the windows open.
A brand new problem I was blissfully unaware of til this very moment :-?
Or “the random stuff we fret about in the Cafe.”