You all may remember that my car was totaled and brought back from the dead last summer. I asked the body shop to replace the hinge pins along with the repair work.
My doors started sagging about 12 years ago.I could grab the trailing edge of the doors and just lift them up and down. I did not know how to deal with the problem properly, so I just loosened the hinge bolts where attached to the body and shimmed just the lower hinge. That lifted the trailing edge back into place. If you examined the door gaps you could see they weren't right, but the doors fit and no one ever mentioned it.
When my car was completed, the shims were still in place, the doors had not been worked on. When I complained, the body man said come back in an hour. When I returned there were no shims and everything fit fine. The body man said he bent the hinges and that was the proper way to handle the situation. I thought this sounded goofy, but I could not complain about the results. Now that Long Time Ford man said the same thing, I am not sure it is so goofy.