"nightjar .me.uk" cpb@insert my surname here wrote in message
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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Posted this on uk.rec.cars.maintenance without any practical response -
apart from 2 UK DIY's

Any idea how to adjust the (left) rear door on a Kangoo van? It closes
fine
at the top, but the bottom doesn't seem to engage with the catch
properly.

Can't seem to find any adjustment of the hinge or catch.

When I went around car factories, which I seemed to do a lot in the 1960s
and 70s, the usual door adjusting tool appeared to be a large rubber
mallet.



As an aside, back in the days when we were switching from real measurements
to the new fangled metric stuff, I was told by a guy who worked for Ford in
Dagenham that they had spent many hours sorting out a door problem.
Apparently a large number of Cortina bodies were shipped over from Belgium
but the doors for them were built in England. The hinge mounting points on
the bodies had been built to the metric measurements but the doors had used
imperial. Needless to say they didn't match and much modification was
needed. I can't vouch for the truth of this but it sounds like exactly
the sort of thing that would happen (like when they had to lower the track
throughout the length of the Piccadilly line tunnels because the new trains,
purpose built, were too tall).
--
Keith W
Sunbury on Thames
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)