Thread: Tailgate latch

Originally Posted by midal

Well it appears that it is a design fault generally.

I might have a look around and see if I can get some sealing rubber to go right around the back door, not quite as thick as the inner seal though. There is room for it, a little tight behind the hinges and by the latch but it should work and that will prevent (or at least minimise) dust from getting into the area hopefully. That just leaves the entry point under the plastic housing where the external latch is. Really do need something around those hinge holes as well though.

Cheers
Mick

I was thinking that a flat piece of rubber cut out around the hinge and glued to the flat part of the door might work ???

Yes, that should take care of the hinge holes. I was also thinking about getting the type of stick on seal that you can pick up for domestic doors to seal off gaps in door frames....they come in either foam or rubber and are pretty thin so should not create any binding issues opening and closing the door. Pretty cheap so if that doesn't fit the bill it's no great expense lost anyway. That may ease the interior door latch dust accumulation a little.

Cheers
Mick

Well, this is the rear door of my D1!



As you can see, there is a factory rubber seal around the hinge, on both the top and bottom one!

Sounds like they left this off the D2?

Also with the D1 (not sure of D2), you can pop the Land Rover badge off the tailgate handle and spray lube in there.

Hmmmm....grrrr....mumble mumble.....LR must have run out of money when they reached the D2 back door


Cheers (NOT)
Mick

Originally Posted by midal

Hmmmm....grrrr....mumble mumble.....LR must have run out of money when they reached the D2 back door


Cheers (NOT)
Mick

Agreed,my brothers D1 has way better dust sealing than my D2

2004 ... No seal.

But just like the D1 pic' above, it's should be easy to seal the hinge side.

Looking at the latch & latch side of the back door, there's space there to use some appropriately sized sealing rubber to put a seal around the latch striker area on the body so as to seal the latch on the door from dust ingress ... I think.

The handle on the back door appears to be more of a challenge ! Some sort of a cover, or pop-in plug type appliance maybe ?

Kev..

D1 seal part in microcat is MXC5288 if anyone interested to see if it fits the D2

Thanks Panya, might try that. It's not a major problem and will be easy enough to rectify one way or another, just one of those minor annoyances.

Cheers
Mick