moved to position 40 the position of door stop 19 may also be caused to move such that the opening of door 14 is limited to the semi open position indicated at 24 fig3 illustrates one example embodiment of a dampening apparatus 42 which may be included in the car door swing control arrangement 10 of fig1 dampening apparatus 42 includes a dampening element 44 which may be similar to a shock absorber dampening element 44 includes a hydraulic cylinder 46 having a fixed rod 48 extending from a first end of cylinder 46 and a slidable rod 50 extending from a second end of cylinder 46 an outer end of rod 48 is pivotably attached to a fixed structure 52 and an outer end of rod 50 is slidingly coupled to car door 14 as door 14 further opens from the position indicated at 54 to the position indicated at 56 rod 50 slides out of cylinder 46 and the outer end of rod 50 slides along the length of door 14 dampening element 44 may provide resistance or a dampening force that resists the force with which the user pushes on door 14 in order to open door 14 thus the user is required to exert more force on door 14 in order to open the door which may enable the user to better control how far the door opens in one embodiment dampening element 44 applies a constant level of resistance to.