I'm amazed at how WD-40 can bring tired/sticky electrical mechanism back to
life. I don't think it can hurt them either.
Very often, it's just take it apart, inspect, clean, treat and service - and
it's working again.
And once in  a while you can even resurrect a sticky thing without taking it
apart.
I don't even understand how things are supposed to work for decades with
only their original lubrication or assembly.
Judiciously applied lube of the right kind here and there - makes a huge
difference.  Electrical contact cleaner, I find myself using that a lot on
vanagons too.
Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Thyer" <matt_thyer@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Rear hatch will no longer lock, sliding door iffy

Replace the solenoid behind the panel.  Mine is doing the same thing,
basically the solenoid wears so that it sticks and won't travel the full
distance.  I'm not sure if it's the spring or what, but I'm guessing that's
the problem.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
David M
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:33 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Rear hatch will no longer lock, sliding door iffy

It seems my rear hatch will no longet lock.

Ita a 1987 Wolfsburg with power locks (you lock the front passenger door and
the rest of the locks click as well).
I've also noticed that sometimes I have to unlock/lock the front passenger
door a couple of times to get the sliding door to click locked.

How does one remedy this?

-David