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Autor Thema: Rear doors do not latch / Hintere Türen nicht verriegeln  (Gelesen 2020 mal)

Offline Baxter

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Guten abend.
Ich habe ein Problem mit meinem hinteren Türen.

Okay, I ran out of German, I'm sorry!

My rear door latches do not close, there is also some misalignment with the doors, it' is like the whole roof wants to go backwards a little more to get the rear edge of the rear door to come down.
Is this normal?
The roof frame was in very bad condition when I bought the Iltis, the tube is quite rusty.
During the summer I may remove it all and have it sandblasted, zinc plated and powder coated.

Offline chrislb

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Re: Rear doors do not latch / Hintere Türen nicht verriegeln
« Antwort #1 am: 10. Juni 2014, 20:48 »
Baxter,
I had the same problem. Latches of the rear doors not 'catching' was caused by a misalignment of the roof frame. The doors were 'leaning backwards'.
I had to carefully re-align the roof frame. It was a question of some millimeters here and some there. It's not a question of the roof tubes being rusty, no, they're bent by improper opening and closing of the roof.

PS. Compliments for your effort to write German!
Christian (chris-lb)
Dieses Leben ist zu kurz um nur Golf zu fahren ;-))