Sliding door friction - fix

[SteveJS]

Towards the end of a cracking fortnight touring mainly Germany and France just now, our 2019 T6 Ocean sliding door started to make a bit of a grinding noise at the start and end of the track …

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…and taking a lot more effort to get it to electronically latch.

Unusually I couldn’t find any fixes on the forum for this - and let me take a moment to thank everyone for the countless solutions I have found here.

So here’s what worked for me in case it is any use.

The problem. The door is held via a bracket at the top towards the rear which has 2 M8 bolts which had become loose making the door sag a bit.

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These are very close up against the bottom of the awning so rather hard to get a socket handle in there.

To avoid removing the awning, I gripped the socket with a pair of footprints and was able to tighten up the bolts.




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After tightening, the door moves smoothly and latches easily again.

I hope that might be helpful for someone.

 

[SteveJS]

Correction - the offending bracket with the loose bolts is towards the FRONT of the door

 

[kurienp]

When doing up those bolts, first tighten both, then take out one at a time completely, put some blue medium strength thread locker and then tighten up again. Will stay tight for longer.

 

[SteveJS]

Ah - nice idea. I’ll give that a go later this week