Thread: Defender doors staying open

no they should hold open, the hold open stay holder needs tightning, mine been done twice, its a simple system but does not work too great
ian

Not out of the Factory they don't.

The rear can be adjusted by removing the trim off the inside of the rear door and tightening up the bolt on the door slide:

Photos courtesy of timNZ:




It should look like this:







The front doors are a little easier to do but the same principal applies albeit that you dont have to remove any trim. These aren't as positive though so a stiff breeze or a slope will still close the doors.

The main problem with the back door is than when you pull over to the side of the road, the road usually tilts towards the drain. Therefore you have gravity pulling at that heavy spare wheel mounted on the backdoor. One option is to spend a few hundred dollars on a wheel carrier that takes the weight off the back door. Another option is to carry an 'ocky' strap and use that to hold the door open while loading/unloading instead. I'd like the former but currently do the latter.

Yes, all the doors should stay open. My rear door has been adjusted and is probably about as good as can be expected, the rear passenger doors are fine, and my front ones both need tightening. Some people get a gas strut screwed to the top of their rear door which helps hold it open if you don't plan on fitting a spare wheel carrier.

Yep, this is the only way I found to fix it.



It's very effective too.

So the doors should stay open themselves, thats what I thought. I'll see what they do about it today. Not expecting much though as they already told me that they dont stay open.

That gas strut looks effective.
Kenley

Thanks for the tip.

But without the tell tale grease spot on the back of the clean shirt which along with the torn belt loops is a useful way in a crowd to tell who drives a Defender.

we found once a rear wheel carrier was fitted this also helped in keeping the door open...once it had been adjusted..

before the carrier was on there it was getting adjusted all the time