Thread: Help- door stuck closed

Glad you've got it working again! Agree with the weak point about the latches - they seem too complex and do need to be nurtured a bit. When we did our big lap including up near your place up to Gove and Cape Arnhem (beautiful spot!), I was cleaning and lubing the back door every week or so as all our food and camping gear was behind the cargo barrier and we would have been buggered if the rear door latch gave up!

Hope the sandflies aren't too bad this year.

Cheers
Simon

Cape Arnhem:






As far as lubricants for the door locks goes, I use a 3 step process:

1.clean the lock with Inox spray and wipe clean using a rag and a screwdriver to get into the tricky places.

2. then use DuPont Teflon dry wax lubricant: DuPont? Teflon® Multi-Use Lubricant but it looks like the dry wax dirt resisting formula has changed so I would now use this:
DuPont? Teflon® Chain-Saver Lubricant
I bought this at a yachting supplies shop.

3. Then puff on some graphite powder !

The main thing is to use a lubricant that resists dirt. A good quality bike chain wax lubricant would be good also I recon.

Cheers
Simon