Wrinkly Ninja
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Having owned my T6 Ocean for 4 years now I have always tried to be careful opening and closing the rear door.
On a recent trip I was slowly closing the rear door holding it in the middle of the lip.
I moved my grip to the lower part of the drivers side edge with my left hand and slowly continued lowering.
As I was doing this I did a last minute visual check that nothing was protruding from the load section floor that might stop the door closing properly and noticed that my wife's walking boots were sticking out a little.
Still holding the door I moved forwards quickly to push them back a bit.
I struck the top of my head full force on the 90 degree corner part way up the side of the door (photo 1)
Whilst the pain was horrendous I wasn't knocked unconscious but there was blood everywhere which we stopped with compression pads.
A trip to A&E and 2 very nice Triage nurses who scrubbed the cut clean and then glued it together.
After a couple of days at home I cut some high density foam into two small rectangles (photo 2)
sliced them to make a channel (photo 3)
and glued them to the sharp corners (photo 4)
Not too visible when closed
I will always be more careful in future, and hopefully anyone who reads this will avoid the dreaded sharp corners.
On a recent trip I was slowly closing the rear door holding it in the middle of the lip.
I moved my grip to the lower part of the drivers side edge with my left hand and slowly continued lowering.
As I was doing this I did a last minute visual check that nothing was protruding from the load section floor that might stop the door closing properly and noticed that my wife's walking boots were sticking out a little.
Still holding the door I moved forwards quickly to push them back a bit.
I struck the top of my head full force on the 90 degree corner part way up the side of the door (photo 1)
Whilst the pain was horrendous I wasn't knocked unconscious but there was blood everywhere which we stopped with compression pads.
A trip to A&E and 2 very nice Triage nurses who scrubbed the cut clean and then glued it together.
After a couple of days at home I cut some high density foam into two small rectangles (photo 2)
sliced them to make a channel (photo 3)
and glued them to the sharp corners (photo 4)
Not too visible when closed
I will always be more careful in future, and hopefully anyone who reads this will avoid the dreaded sharp corners.