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#1 2017-09-11 18:15:37

OAT
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From: Borders/Dales
Registered: 2017-01-03
Posts: 903

Sliding Side Door Guides

I know from past threads that many others have problems with sliding door guides.

Both were snapped on my own van when I got it and after replacing, now one is again broken and the other distorted.  I ordered another pair and was going to try strengthening them up with plastic metal to see if that helped.

On arrival though they were not the plastic I expected but well cast metal with an internal reinforcing web.

Anyone else with plastic ones which are not doing the job properly or keep breaking might want to consider these:-

https://tinyurl.com/yab28mz8

or if none left, a bit dearer here :-

https://tinyurl.com/yccb7ppj

The stiffening web can be seen in the pics but the plastic ones don't show the back so you can't see they are different.

Annoyingly I now have a few of the socket pieces going spare if anyone needs them.

As much as the plastic ones are sub standard, I must admit that its peoples lack of mechanical sympathy which does them in.  People seem to fail to close them properly on first go then just push them forward as hard as they possibly can the next time.  No recognition of the need to ease them in at the end of the track at all!  Had one fully engage the latch while the guide was totally outside it's socket recently.  I had to jemmy out the top of the door to release it!

I now behave like an attentive chauffeur and dash round to close the sliders when anyone gets in.

Last edited by OAT (2017-09-11 18:17:28)

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