I have tried to do it, but not well. My T2 has a handle at the back end so you can pull it "in" when you slide the door forward, but even that doesn't make for a really quiet closing. :-/
Courtney

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Hanson 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM ; WetWesties 
  Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 8:51 AM
  Subject: [WetWesties] Slam! that slider....can you not?

    
  I've always been able to tell when someone nearby is camping in a VW
  Vanagon...I hear the distinctly Vanagon sound of the slider being closed.

  Has anyone ever found a way to shut the side door of a vanagon quietly?
  No problem doing so if you take it slow, from the outside, and push in near
  the rear hinge, I know...but from inside, sliding it forcefully ahead seems
  to be the only way, and often if you try to minimize the noise of this, it
  fails to latch, so you end up making the noise twice.

  I think it's sort of rude, slamming my slider, when someone is camped
  close or in a tent..or sitting close by...Early mornings in our winter camp,
  I sometimes go into to my van to listen to sat radio news at daybreak...and
  when its cold, I want the door closed..."Whirrr whirrr whirr.....boom!" I
  slam it to make the latch work and everyone within a mile on a cold still
  daybreak can be assured of hearing that noise. Then, you have to go back
  out for any number of reasons, time after time....Whirrrr....boom!

  Any ideas on how to quiet this process down?

  Don Hanson

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