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Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby FFMan » Fri May 25, 2018 11:57 am

I have a 56 plate MK6 that started life as 17 seater mini bus, but i converted to a campervan. It' the medium height one.

The sliding side door opens enough to reveal the built step but it looks like it has been built in other models to open wider, which would be much nicer and more useful when transporting things.

The top rail the door hangs from, and the waist level rail are only half used when the door opens, but the bottom rail seems to limit the travel by design.

I wondered if there was anyway to reconfigure or replace the door to one which would open fully ?

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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby Brains_transit » Fri May 25, 2018 5:44 pm

I measured the gap on a swb low roof and it was 1040mm between the door rubbers
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby bambi mk 1 » Fri May 25, 2018 7:17 pm

Brains_transit wrote:I measured the gap on a swb low roof and it was 1040mm between the door rubbers

A 17 seater low roof swb bus now theres a thing :roll:
OP there is a thread somewhere on the forum covering it .You will have to modify the step and relocate the bottom roller and rubber stop on the door.Will try dig up the thread :)
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby Brains_transit » Fri May 25, 2018 7:28 pm

bambi mk 1 wrote:
Brains_transit wrote:I measured the gap on a swb low roof and it was 1040mm between the door rubbers

A 17 seater low roof swb bus now theres a thing :roll:
OP there is a thread somewhere on the forum covering it .You will have to modify the step and relocate the bottom roller and rubber stop on the door.Will try dig up the thread :)


It was just to show the normal gap on most vans
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby FFMan » Fri May 25, 2018 7:37 pm

bambi mk 1 wrote:
Brains_transit wrote:I measured the gap on a swb low roof and it was 1040mm between the door rubbers

A 17 seater low roof swb bus now theres a thing :roll:
OP there is a thread somewhere on the forum covering it .You will have to modify the step and relocate the bottom roller and rubber stop on the door.Will try dig up the thread :)



excellent that would be appreciated
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby Brains_transit » Fri May 25, 2018 7:49 pm

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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby wexican » Fri May 25, 2018 7:50 pm

Te inside trim of the minibus SL door has rubber bumpstops around the centre of the door which limit the door opening too wide and can be removed to make the door slide back, but further the lower arm would have to be repositioned further to the front of the door/ there may be fixings there already on the door.
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby bambi mk 1 » Fri May 25, 2018 8:04 pm

wexican wrote:Te inside trim of the minibus SL door has rubber bumpstops around the centre of the door which limit the door opening too wide and can be removed to make the door slide back, but further the lower arm would have to be repositioned further to the front of the door/ there may be fixings there already on the door.

A very clever bloke posted that already :mrgreen:
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby FFMan » Fri May 25, 2018 10:19 pm

Brains_transit wrote:Here it is



fantastic thank you
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby Whitters » Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:28 pm

Been wondering about this on my 17-seat minibus. Thanks!
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Re: Sliding door - limited opening size

Postby straydog » Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:22 am

I know this is an older post.
But modifying a 17 seater mini bus to get the side door fully open is an absolute bugger.. :evil:

I did it to mine, Had to cut the step out plus modify the lower roller and runner
Also change the center roller with on that allowes the door to clear the twin wheelarch (assumimg twinnys)
and get longer center roller guide plus modify it to clear the windows.
If interested, check out my vid from about 1.20min to 2.20min to see some of whats involved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awh4mzWpcn0&t=87s

My advice "don't do it unless you are confident" it cant be put back to standard if ya fugup

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