Many years ago when I was living in France, I rented a Peugeot van to
transport my family around during the Christmas holidays. When my
parents emerged from the baggage claim area at the Paris airport to meet
wife, kids and me parked at the sidewalk, I hopped from the driver's
seat, through open the sliding door with a flourish ... and found myself
standing with the door, entirely disconnected from the vehicle, in my
hands!

Woody
83.5 V'gon
Haverhill, MA

PS Somehow, I did manage to get the door back on its tracks and we
headed off to Alsace. I opened it more slowly after that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Alistair Bell
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:27 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Sliding door popping open

take off door panel and adjust bowdoin cable, the cable that connects
front latch with rear latch.

(its in the bentley)

Alistair
On 7-Feb-07, at 9:05 AM, Doug Fitz-Randolph wrote:

Hi,

I've had this trouble for some time now. Not cold-weather specific
necessarily. The back of the slider will pop open every so often when I
hit a bump. I tried adjusting the striker and thought I had it licked,
but it came back again after a few weeks.

Last week the door actually slid all the way open! It had popped open
slightly, as it has many times, on the way home on the interstate. After
stopping at the end of my exit ramp, I sort of peeled out and -whoosh-
the door opened completely! This has never happened before, but I was
also never able to develop any significant acceleration before I got a
2.5l Subaru engine 6 months ago.

Is my problem the latch? I've seen these at Bus Depot and they aren't
too expensive.

Doug Fitz-Randolph
Freeport, ME

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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:14:20 -0500
From: Joe Beckham <jrbeckh@COX.NET>
Subject: Sliding door popping open

Hello All,

Does anyone else have problems with the sliding door popping open on
very
cold days? Or does anyone know the fix? Thanks in advance!! all the
best,
Joe