fireblade669
New Member
Hello everyone, I'm brand new here having received my T6.1 yesterday. During the walk-around everything worked but this morning I tried to open the rear Barn Doors and I heard the mechanism go but nothing happened.
Being an engineering sort, I took the ply lining covering the mechanism off and immediately saw that there's a very thin threaded rod which goes into a plastic ball join. It is pulled upwards by the door opening motor and has simply pulled the rod through the plastic thread (not a big surprise as it's very fine thread).
It looks to me like they've changed this component recently as I don't recall there being issues before but I'd be grateful for any input on whether this is a known issue.
The van has just been delivered and it's on Contract Hire, so I'm contemplating rejecting the vehicle if it's a design flaw. I'm not even slightly tempted to start the too-ing and fro-ing trying to sort a brand new vehicle. I've obviously written an email today to the Contract Hire firm to explain the problem.
Any input gratefully received as right now, I can't open the rear doors without some disassembly and haven't driven the vehicle yet. Just feeling a bit frustrated! Hopefully there's a known fix that they can do but on a brand new model, it seems they might be about to get a storm of unhappy users!
Being an engineering sort, I took the ply lining covering the mechanism off and immediately saw that there's a very thin threaded rod which goes into a plastic ball join. It is pulled upwards by the door opening motor and has simply pulled the rod through the plastic thread (not a big surprise as it's very fine thread).
It looks to me like they've changed this component recently as I don't recall there being issues before but I'd be grateful for any input on whether this is a known issue.
The van has just been delivered and it's on Contract Hire, so I'm contemplating rejecting the vehicle if it's a design flaw. I'm not even slightly tempted to start the too-ing and fro-ing trying to sort a brand new vehicle. I've obviously written an email today to the Contract Hire firm to explain the problem.
Any input gratefully received as right now, I can't open the rear doors without some disassembly and haven't driven the vehicle yet. Just feeling a bit frustrated! Hopefully there's a known fix that they can do but on a brand new model, it seems they might be about to get a storm of unhappy users!
