In a message dated 1/31/02 7:58:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, JordanVw@AOL.COM writes: << the '80-'84 vanagon sliding doorhandles were made with cheap pot metal from lower mongolia. (ask BenT or Terry for the story here) anyway the point is, they always break, exactly every 100k mi. there is a small timer built into the handle (dont even look for it, you cant see it - a marvel of german (or mongolian) engineering) which causes a siesmic wave internally in the handle, and creates a fault line. which also simultaneously corresponds with the same time your mother in law YANKS the doorhandle OUTWARD instead of pushing down. those two forces create the undesired result - what is called the"sliding door handle stubby" (yes, its a scientific term) . >>
There's your problem Chris. Mongolians probably don;t like YANKS and you've put them in the same paragraph. I'm not sure but I think the guy's problem is latch rather than handle related. Otherwise, wouldn't that make him "handlecap"? my 82 had a similar symptom. I found that periodic adjustment of the rear lacthing mechanism kept it easy to operate. BenT |
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