Sliding doors on PVC's

I must be honest, just ordered a PVC and never gave a thought to the whizz-bang club free membership...
It will be the only free thing to do with the change mind you
 
bobandjanie said:
That's what we should have done when we had our A Class, then when we sold it we would not have ended up with 5 chairs 3 table's 2 cadac's and no end of crap we carted around for 5 years. :eek::p

Panel vans rule OK. ;) (y) Bob.
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In the 70's I used to go poaching in my mate's VW Combi. It was ideal as no one ever thought a camper van parked at the side of the rural road was suspicious and it had loads of cupboards, many of them hidden, that we could put the rabbits in. Trouble is that sometimes we didn't find all the rabbits until some days later :sick:

And that is why I'll never understand going on holiday in a van where you can't easily access your rabbits. ;)
 
Nicepix said:
In the 70's I used to go poaching in my mate's VW Combi. It was ideal as no one ever thought a camper van parked at the side of the rural road was suspicious and it had loads of cupboards, many of them hidden, that we could put the rabbits in. Trouble is that sometimes we didn't find all the rabbits until some days later :sick:


And that is why I'll never understand going on holiday in a van where you can't easily access your rabbits. ;)
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8935670.jpg That's the trouble you carted too many things about you didn't really need.

20181118_221955.jpg (y) Bob.
 
Having had many vw campers all with sliding doors the vw sliding door slam was kind of famous.

But there was a way around it by fitting a "holy shit" grab handle to the rear of the door so you slid it almost closed and then pulled the rear handle in which closed the door a lot quieter.

I've heard other vans with 18 cab doors aswell
 
Northernraider said:
Having had many vw campers all with sliding doors the vw sliding door slam was kind of famous.

But there was a way around it by fitting a "holy shit" grab handle to the rear of the door so you slid it almost closed and then pulled the rear handle in which closed the door a lot quieter.

I've heard other vans with 18 cab doors aswell
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One of our dogs use to get excited thinking it was grandad when ever she heard one, because they don't sound like a proper engine, ;) says he that's had two VW beetles. :LOL: Bob.

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RidersofRohan said:
Think everybody who is moaning should make a contribution, it's only fair, it's for your benefit not his. They'll all be too busy repairing their leaky plastic vans.:rolleyes:
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One of the leakiest vans I ever owned was a vw long wheel base panel van with a fibreglass high top ...the roof vent leaked like a seive :)
 
Trying to close the silding door from the inside can be a pain, the cause is the air pressure inside the van and not being able to get any weight behind the door when closing.
Today I tried opening various windows, the best was opening the sky light 5cm, the door closed every time with no effort.
 
Top Hat said:
Trying to close the silding door from the inside can be a pain, the cause is the air pressure inside the van.........
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This was a problem for one of the Autotrail PVC owners who posted on the MMM Forum I believe.

He slammed the main door and his windows blew out.
 
Northernraider said:
Yep all skylights are plastic even the ones in panel van conversions :D
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Nah!

Pure are made from pure crystal and the handles are gold plated!





Hang on a minute......... someone’s nicked them!:whistle:
 
Blue Knight said:
This was a problem for one of the Autotrail PVC owners who posted on the MMM Forum I believe.

He slammed the main door and his windows blew out.
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You can't help but laugh.
There's a test for the inspection of your new van, if it closes too easley from the inside when everything is closed there might be a problem. ;) :D
Charlie
 
Joining this thread with the one about small parking bays I find one of the advantages of a sliding door is that I can nearly always get out......if I can get in the bay at all:)
 
Nicepix said:
I thought that the purpose of having the door wide open was to enable you to put all your belongings outside whilst searching for the thing that you need that is always buried under loads of other things.

:reel:
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That may be the case for 'mere mortals' but my camper is very well fettled in order to have places to put stuff without too much shuffling of stuff around :p ... however when we had a coachbuilt with a garage it was a nuisance having to move stuff all the time to get at other things! :eek:

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In my job working with young people we had a Transit with sliding doors
One of the young ladies was brilliant at closing the sliding door.
However on opening
Twice she slammed it open and it came completely off the side of the van.
Oh s__t
 
Minxy Girl said:
That may be the case for 'mere mortals' but my camper is very well fettled in order to have places to put stuff without too much shuffling of stuff around :p ... however when we had a coachbuilt with a garage it was a nuisance having to move stuff all the time to get at other things! :eek:
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I made a rack for our garage so that everything is to hand and easily accessed. If I need the small chairs and table I can slide them straight out. If I want the lounging chairs I just have to lean in a bit further and lift them out over the retaining rail. Over the top of them is the Cadac and plastic storage boxes on a shelf that can easily be lifted out over a rail. On the front wall are shelves where all the bottles of milk, water and wine live and the tools I might need are in a cupboard along with the Truma heater.

And we still have room to park a scooter or a couple of bikes inside out of harm's way ;)

I always think of those fun-sized camper vans as being like my wife's handbag. Loads and loads of stuff in there but you have to decant most of it to get to the one thing that you need at that moment. :p
 
Isn't it interesting how easily wound up some people can become while relaxing or "chilling out" on holiday over simple everyday things such sliding doors (or noisy plastic habitation doors). Mind you, I have been known to move away from yappy dogs. The trouble is, you move to new location, only to find that the sliding door rouses yappy dogs in the new location. I think that maybe yappy dogs outnumber sliding doors, though.

I'm a little unsure about the statement that opening windows in pvcs reduces the noise of sliding doors though. Manufacturers build in a certain amount of air leakage into their designs such as vents built in to rooflights, to avoid overnight asphyxiation or while cooking on a stove, so they are not as airtight as cars. Perhaps it is the initial just the rush of air. What I do is to spray the rollers, roller rails and lock mechanisms regularly with penetrating oil or spray wax. You do have to do it regularly since it quickly dries in the hot sun. Remember that? Hot sun. I've yet to find something that doesn't dry after a while. This allows the door to slide easily and quickly, with much less effort. It also cuts down the roller noise. I do intend to fit an inside handle.
 
I don't think it's got anything to do with sliding doors. I've run Transits for work for many years and can shut the SLD easily without BANGING it shut.

It's about consideration for other people, we aren't all on our jollies. I have to get up for work each morning like many other folk that don't always work close to home. There is no need to slide bang a door on a PVC.
 
Dorwyn said:
Isn't it interesting how easily wound up some people can become while relaxing or "chilling out" on holiday over simple everyday things such sliding doors (or noisy plastic habitation doors). Mind you, I have been known to move away from yappy dogs. The trouble is, you move to new location, only to find that the sliding door rouses yappy dogs in the new location. I think that maybe yappy dogs outnumber sliding doors, though.

I'm a little unsure about the statement that opening windows in pvcs reduces the noise of sliding doors though. Manufacturers build in a certain amount of air leakage into their designs such as vents built in to rooflights, to avoid overnight asphyxiation or while cooking on a stove, so they are not as airtight as cars. Perhaps it is the initial just the rush of air. What I do is to spray the rollers, roller rails and lock mechanisms regularly with penetrating oil or spray wax. You do have to do it regularly since it quickly dries in the hot sun. Remember that? Hot sun. I've yet to find something that doesn't dry after a while. This allows the door to slide easily and quickly, with much less effort. It also cuts down the roller noise. I do intend to fit an inside handle.
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Generally people who Are noisy and annoying aren't aware of it ......or they just don't care.

But like generator users lol


I knew my sliding door was noisy on my t4 van so from outside I pushed the door shut at rear and from inside I fitted an extra handle to pull it in from the rear

Quiet as anything.

One of the reasons I park away from other people is because I like my music and motorhomes aren't the best sound insulated so I park away from folk so I don't disturb them.

Then some noisy bugger comes and parks next to me and makes a load of noise

You can't win

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Curious about this inside handle - anyone got a pic of one?

I'm aware of the sliding door noise, especially as I take the dog out late at night - so would love to be able to minimise it if possible.

But at the end of the day, it's just what one has to tolerate in a shared space be it noisy;
PVC doors
Folk loudly socialising
Yappy dogs
Screaming Kids
Inconsiderate campers leaving at the crack of dawn

:D2
 
Langtoftlad said:
Curious about this inside handle - anyone got a pic of one?

I'm aware of the sliding door noise, especially as I take the dog out late at night - so would love to be able to minimise it if possible.

But at the end of the day, it's just what one has to tolerate in a shared space be it noisy;
PVC doors
Folk loudly socialising
Yappy dogs
Screaming Kids
Inconsiderate campers leaving at the crack of dawn

:D2
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I dont have any pics of my old ones but I retro fitted one of the handles you usually find on the a pillar to help folk climb in to the cab. I just screwed it on to the sliding door at the rear end so you slid door up to the catch and then pulled the rear end in with the handle
 
Northernraider said:
I dont have any pics of my old ones but I retro fitted one of the handles you usually find on the a pillar to help folk climb in to the cab. I just screwed it on to the sliding door at the rear end so you slid door up to the catch and then pulled the rear end in quietly with the handle
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I see what you did there.
 
Northernraider said:
Generally people who Are noisy and annoying aren't aware of it ......or they just don't care.

One of the reasons I park away from other people is because I like my music and motorhomes aren't the best sound insulated so I park away from folk so I don't disturb them.

Then some noisy bugger comes and parks next to me and makes a load of noise
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Me?

Long time ago I used to have a Bongo with electric soft close doors. The two stage motors made such a lot of noise, wifey used to cringe. It would have been quieter to slam the doors. The only speakers in my present pvc are in the front doors. Those metal panel doors are good resonators. Keep meaning to take off the inner panels and put some sound insulation pads in. One day...

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Langtoftlad said:
Curious about this inside handle - anyone got a pic of one?

I'm aware of the sliding door noise, especially as I take the dog out late at night - so would love to be able to minimise it if possible.

But at the end of the day, it's just what one has to tolerate in a shared space be it noisy;
PVC doors
Folk loudly socialising
Yappy dogs
Screaming Kids
Inconsiderate campers leaving at the crack of dawn

:D2
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This is mine
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My SLD has to be "slammed" or it doesn't shut properly.Have tried to adjust/replace bits but no joy.
 
Have got a strap on inside but even from closing it outside it still needs a "slam" to fully shut it.

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