Modular vehicle door

A modular vehicle door comprising:

• a hollow door shell of sheet metal panels that are secured together at their abutting periphery,
• a crash beam that is attached to a hinge reinforcement at a forward end of the hollow closure and to a door latch reinforcement at an aft end of the hollow closure that is substantially lower than the hinge reinforcement so that the crash beam extends diagonally across the length of the door,
• and a module that supports several parts of the vehicle door that is preassembled and assembled to the hollow closure as the preassembled module, and
• the module having a metal support beam that is attached to the hinge reinforcement at one end and to the door latch reinforcement at the other end so that the metal support beam extends diagonally across the length of the door and forms a box section with the crash beam.

A modular vehicle door having a hollow door shell of sheet metal panels that are secured together at their abutting periphery, a crash beam that is attached to the hollow closure so as to extend across the length of the door, and a module that supports several parts of the vehicle door that is preassembled and assembled to the hollow closure as the preassembled module, characterized in that:

• the hollow door shell has a first reinforcement at a forward end and a second reinforcement at an aft end,
• the module has a metal support beam that is attached to the first reinforcement at one end and to the second reinforcement at the other end so that the metal support beam extends across the length of the door and forms a box section with the crash beam,
• the first reinforcement and the second reinforcement both being U-shaped so that each has an inboard leg and an outboard leg, and
• the metal support beam being attached to the inboard legs of the reinforcements while crash beam is attached to the outboard legs of the reinforcements to form the box section,
• the first reinforcement being an upper hinge reinforcement and the second reinforcement being a latch reinforcement and the metal support beam of the module being bolted to the inboard legs of the reinforcements through an inner sheet metal panel of the hollow door shell.