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Back doors stuck and don't open

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wazz
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Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by wazz »

There are few combo and bipper vans in our office. Sometime the back doors get stuck and cant open back doors. So we have use the side door.

In order to fix the back doors. They send the van to the work shop.

This has happen to me few times. I shut the back doors and then they don't open lol.

Does anyone know why the back doors get stuck.
rubberbond
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by rubberbond »

Probably because when they go in for repair,they are not repaired properly.
north london driver
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by north london driver »

could be they are not repaired at all.
wazz
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by wazz »

north london driver wrote:could be they are not repaired at all.
No. When the van returns from the work shop. The back doors get fixed.
rubberbond
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by rubberbond »

wazz wrote:
north london driver wrote:could be they are not repaired at all.
No. When the van returns from the work shop. The back doors get fixed.
I did say, "properly".
Kings Norton
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by Kings Norton »

Don't take the van out its faulty give them a bit of their own medicine seen as they are health and safety conscious these days.
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by ratchet »

Kings Norton wrote:Don't take the van out its faulty give them a bit of their own medicine seen as they are health and safety conscious these days.
They don't give a damn about health and safety, their only concern is in limiting any possible financial damage to the business.
I am no longer a number :-)
datasaint
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by datasaint »

Does it open manually with they key? Sometimes the central locking goes haywire.
Darren Bent
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by Darren Bent »

Which van model ?
resperin
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by resperin »

Had to loan a hightop van from a different office on one occasion (only has rear access doors). Low and behold I go and reach for a parcel at the other end of the van and it slams shut on me and I'm unable to open it due to a fault in the mechanisms . If my PDA had no power or... I was somewhere more rural, I would been in a pretty terrible state luckily it was nothing more than a near miss as someone let me out after 30mins of banging.
Nondescript
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by Nondescript »

You need Keith Lemon to smash them in :arrrghhh
osgoody1970
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by osgoody1970 »

you should always unload from side door, as in the past a postman was rammed by a car whilst unloading from the rear doors.... read it somewhere, he was seriously injured.
GT750rider
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by GT750rider »

osgoody1970 wrote:you should always unload from side door, as in the past a postman was rammed by a car whilst unloading from the rear doors.... read it somewhere, he was seriously injured.
Some LDV Maxus vans only have rear doors ( apart from the driver / passenger doors that is ). I know of one where the rear doors were stuck closed with live mail inside, and the workshop took an angle grinder to the hinges as that was the only way to open it.
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Re: Back doors stuck and don't open

Post by wabbithunta »

GT750rider wrote:
osgoody1970 wrote:you should always unload from side door, as in the past a postman was rammed by a car whilst unloading from the rear doors.... read it somewhere, he was seriously injured.
Some LDV Maxus vans only have rear doors ( apart from the driver / passenger doors that is ). I know of one where the rear doors were stuck closed with live mail inside, and the workshop took an angle grinder to the hinges as that was the only way to open it.

This could be what they mean as being secured mail! :crazy:
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