My wife asked me once at autumn to take two 30 gallon plastic bags ( at
least 50 Lb ea) with leaves down to depository. At the first intersection I
accelerated and sped off. Suddenly at about 50MPH I felt a blast from my
driver window and in the next moment the bags flu off out from open sliding
door. In the rear mirror I saw the bags exploding and spraying thickly the
cars behind. It made me cringe and cursing in several languages: English,
German, Polish, Ukranian, Spanish. All collection of hard expressions,
carefully learned and polished (to sound like the natives) over many years
at expense of more intellectual matters, found finally a forceful exit. My
blood pressure could lift the roof! I remember closing the door well! It
never opened by itself again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Shawley" <easywind1975@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Sliding door comes open...

I had a injured poptop from a 71 Riviera come off on me on I-77 outside of
Charlotte once, same reaction, where the hell is that breeze coming from?
In this case it was like a tornado lifting all the trash off the floor and
swirling it around!  Landed in the median lucky for me and the other
drivers.

> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:23:08 -0500
> From: doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Sliding door comes open...
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> Ok -- no Vanagon content --- on my departed 78 Westy -- the door track
> had rusted out --- I made a left turn in rush hour trafrfic in
> Victoria BC (possibly an oxymoron) and the slider opened, flew off the
> track and ended up in the intersection as I wondered where all the
> breeze was suddenly coming from. "Wait where the heck is my door?".
> Luckily no one ran over it. I was able to grab it and sort off
> reinstall it with the aid of a couple of bungies so it wouldn't fall
> off again. Had to get a new track welded in. But I'll never forget
> that moment. :-)
>
> Doug
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any of y'all had your sliding door not want to stay shut?  The one on
> > my '87 Westy is doing just that, even when locked...  Not a fun thing,
> > driving down the road and have the side door pop open . . .  What
> > broken mechanical thing should I be looking for and where?  I was
> > going to start with the latch on the rear edge of the door, but it's
> > too cold to be working outside just now, so I'm emailing you all
> > instead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marc
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.dougalcock.com

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