Gremlins Are Real
Discussion
I wanted to give the van a wash yesterday and as I waited for the sun to disappear behind the houses opposite, I topped up the fluids and went around greasing the door runners and mechanisms.
After completing the mini service, I went to shut the near-side sliding door but it bounced back as if the door rubber wasn't on properly. I checked and tried again, only to get the same bounce. After trying all the tricks I know, the conclusion was that there was a fault in the mechanism (no click on the latch). I continued to wash the van in the hope that the problem would un-f
k itself; it didn't.
Daylight was fading fast and as luck would have it, I had some silver gaffer tape (van is reflex silver) and decided that a couple of strips over the gaps to keep the door shut would have to do until the morning. As soon as I was up, I got out and got busy stripping the door. It wasn't that straight forward as the van was loaded with the windscreens which I would have been fitting had it not been for the borked mechanism. With the windscreens removed, and the racking that held them collapsed, I could then get to the door (from the inside) and after 30-minutes of the meter running, the mechanism was out.
A closer look at it didn't reveal anything obvious so I tried to click it. It clicked, and locked. 'You're having a laugh,' said the voice in my head. I tried it again. It worked; perfectly, just like a new mechanism. So, back in it went and to my disbelief/surprise/bewilderment, the door now shuts like there was never anything wrong. Sounds just like a Golf, etc.
Is this the equivalent of turning your computer off and switching it back on when things don't work?
After completing the mini service, I went to shut the near-side sliding door but it bounced back as if the door rubber wasn't on properly. I checked and tried again, only to get the same bounce. After trying all the tricks I know, the conclusion was that there was a fault in the mechanism (no click on the latch). I continued to wash the van in the hope that the problem would un-f
k itself; it didn't. Daylight was fading fast and as luck would have it, I had some silver gaffer tape (van is reflex silver) and decided that a couple of strips over the gaps to keep the door shut would have to do until the morning. As soon as I was up, I got out and got busy stripping the door. It wasn't that straight forward as the van was loaded with the windscreens which I would have been fitting had it not been for the borked mechanism. With the windscreens removed, and the racking that held them collapsed, I could then get to the door (from the inside) and after 30-minutes of the meter running, the mechanism was out.
A closer look at it didn't reveal anything obvious so I tried to click it. It clicked, and locked. 'You're having a laugh,' said the voice in my head. I tried it again. It worked; perfectly, just like a new mechanism. So, back in it went and to my disbelief/surprise/bewilderment, the door now shuts like there was never anything wrong. Sounds just like a Golf, etc.
Is this the equivalent of turning your computer off and switching it back on when things don't work?
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